prison fever (priznfever)

Typhus fever (which see, under fever1 ). Also called jail - fever. prison-house (priz'n-hous), n. A house in which prisoners are kept; a jail; a place of confinement. I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison - house . Shak ., Hamlet, i. 5. 14. That I may fetch thee From forth this loathsome prison -house. Milton , S. A., 1. 922. prisonment (priz'n-ment), n . [ prison +-ment.] Confinement in a prison; imprisonment. Item, the pre son ment of John Porter of Blykelyng. Paston Letters , I. 189. ' Tis prisonment enough to be a maid; But to be mew'd up too, that case is hard. Middle ton , More Di emblers besides Women, ii. 3. Cowper, Charity, 1. 610. prison-ship (priz'n-ship), п. A ship fitted up IMG:content-0991.png:[blocks in formation] for receiving and detaining prisoners. They saw themselves melting away like slaves in a prison -ship. Pre scott , Ferd. and Isa., ii. 14. prison-van (priz'n-van), n. A close carriage for conveying prisoners. pristav (pris'tav), n. [ Pritchardia He was styled the grand pristaw, or great commi ioner, and was universally known amongst the Tartar tribes by this title. De Quincey, Flight of a Tartar Tribe. I have in my po e ion the original report of a Ru ian police pristav , written upon a printed form. George Kennan, The Century, XXXVII. 893. Pristidæ (pris'ti-dē), n. pl . [NL., Pristis + -idæ .] A family of selachians or plagiostomous fishes, typified by the genus Pristis , having the snout enormously prolonged into a flattened beak, armed with a row of saw-like teeth on each side; the saw-fishes. (a) In Gray's system the Pristidæ included the Pristiophoridæ . (b) In Günther's system, a family of Batoidei , including only the saw-fishes proper. They chiefly inhabit tropical seas. See cuts under Pristis and saw - fish . pristinatet (pris'ti-nāt), a . [ pristine + -ate1 .] Original; pristine. But as it [health] hath recovered the pristinate strength, which thing only in all the fight it coveted, shall it incontinent be astonished? Sir T. More , Utopia (trans.), ii. 7. I thynke, yea and doubt not, but your line shalbe again restored to the pristinate estate and degree. Hall , Rich. III., f. 13. ( Hall i well .) Beside the only name of Christ, and extern all contempt of their pristinate idolatrye, he taught them nothing at all. Holinshed, Chron., I., B. 3, col. 2, b. ( Nares .) pristine (pris'tin), a. [Formerly pristin; Find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health. Shak ., Macbeth, v. 3. 52. Adam's self, if now he liv'd anew, Could scant vnwinde the knotty snarled clew Of double doubts and questions intricate That Schools dispute about this pristin state. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. After all their labour, [they) at last return to their pris tine ignorance. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xxxvii. = Syn. Primitive , etc. See primary . Pristiophoridæ (pris"ti-ō-for'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Pristiophorus cirratus. genus of Pristiophoridæ, including such forms as P. cirratus. Müller and Henle, 1837. Pristis (pris'tis), n. [NL., Sword of Pristis pectin at us. snout prolonged into a toothed sword. The European saw-fish is known as P. anti quorum. The common American species is P. pectin at us, whose weapon (figured above) is about three feet long. See also cut under saw fish.