prauncet

i. An obsolete form of prance. pravilegeł, n. [ And whatsoeuer colour of right, in Exemptions, Customes, Priuiledges, and prau i leges Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 133. pravity (prav'i-ti), n.; pl. pravities (-tiz). [= OF. pravité = Sp. pravedad = Pg. pravidade = It. pravità, action. As these pravities have corrupted him [the devil], we must hate him. Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 41. Give me leave first to make an inquisition after this antichristian pravity . Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 94. prawling (pra'ling), n . An accommodated form of praline . Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 159. prawn (prân), n . [Early mod. E. also praun , prane ; prane , a prawn; perhaps transposed from an unrecorded OF. * parne , * perne , a prawn (?), = Sp. pern a , a flat shell-fish, = OIt. pern a , “a nakre or narre-fish” (Florio), cf. dim. parnocchie , pl., “shrimps or prawne fishes" (Florio), pern a , a sea-mu el, so called from its shape, pern a (> OF. perne ), ham.] Along tailed ten-footed crustacean, Palæmon serratus , abundant on the shores of Great Britain, resembling the shrimp, but having a long serrate rostrum; hence, any species of the family Palæ monida. The common prawn is 3 or 4 inches long, and prawn is marketed in vast numbers. Among the species known as prawns in the United States, and available for food, are Prawn ( Palæmon serratus). Palæmonetes vulgar is, Palinurus interrupt us (the Californian sea-crawfish), and the shrimp ( Peneus bras i liens is ) of the southern United States. Æsop's prawn is a member of the genus Hippolyte. Praxean (prak'sē-an), n. [ Praxeanist (prak'sē-an-ist), n. [