The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty pleasing pricket

Shak., L. L. L., iv. 2. 58. preynet, n. An obsolete form of preen1. preyset, v. and n. An obsolete variant of praise. pre zygapophysial (prē-zī"gap-o-fiz'i-al), a . [ pre zygapophysis + -al.] Articulating anteriorly, as a vertebral proce ; having the character of or pertaining to a pre zygapophysis. pre zygapophysis (pre-zī-ga-pof'i-sis), n.; pl. pre zygapophyses (-sez). [ NL.præzygapophysis ; præ , before, + NL. zygapophysis , q. v.] An anterior or superior zygapophysis; in man, a superior oblique or articular proce of a vertebra: opposed to post zygapophysis . See zygapophysis, and cuts under dorsal , lumbar , sacrum , xenarthral, vertebra , and hyp apophysis . Priacanthidæ (pri-a-kan'thi-de), n. pl . [NL., Priacanthus + -idæ .] A family of acanthopterygian fishes, represented by the genus Pria canthus alone, with about 20 species of tropical seas, known as bigeyes . They are of small size and carnivorous habits. See cut under Pria IMG:content-0933.png:[blocks in formation] per sistent erection and rigidity of the penis. Priapus (pri-ā'pus), ), n. [= F. Priape , Pri apus , Πρίαπος , Priapus: see def.] 1. The male generative power or function personified as a deity: originally an epithet or cognomen of Bacchus, then a personification of the phallus. At Lampsacus, too, on the Hellespont, he [Bacchus) was venerated under a symbolical form adapted to a similar office [that of procreation], though with a title of a different signification, Priapus . The Greeks, as usual, changed the personified attribute into a distinct deity R. P. Knight , Anc. Art and Myth. (1876), pp. 10, 12. IMG:content-0934.jpg:[blocks in formation] pricasourt, n. [ME., also prick as our ; origin obscure. Cf. prick , ride.] A hard rider. A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, An out-rydere, that loved venerye;.. Therfore he was a pricasour aright; Greyhoundes he hadde as swifte as fowel in flight. Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.