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pride
(mass) | pride
- pýcha |
daň z pridanej hodnoty
(msas) | daň z pridanej hodnoty
- value-added tax, VAT |
pridanie
(msas) | pridanie
- addition |
pridaná hodnota
(msas) | pridaná hodnota
- value-added |
pridaný
(msas) | pridaný
- added |
pridať
(msas) | pridať
- add, add in, append, subjoin |
pridať detail
(msas) | pridať detail
- aggrandize |
pridať sa
(msas) | pridať sa
- join, join |
pridelený
(msas) | pridelený
- assigned |
prideliť
(msas) | prideliť
- allocate, allot, apportion, assign, deal out, award |
pridruženie
(msas) | pridruženie
- affiliation |
pridružený
(msas) | pridružený
- subsidiary |
dan z pridanej hodnoty
(msasasci) | dan z pridanej hodnoty
- value-added tax, VAT |
pridana hodnota
(msasasci) | pridana hodnota
- value-added |
pridanie
(msasasci) | pridanie
- addition |
pridany
(msasasci) | pridany
- added |
pridat
(msasasci) | pridat
- add, add in, append, subjoin |
pridat detail
(msasasci) | pridat detail
- aggrandize |
pridat sa
(msasasci) | pridat sa
- join, join |
pridavky
(msasasci) | pridavky
- additions |
pridavne meno
(msasasci) | pridavne meno
- adjective |
pridavny
(msasasci) | pridavny
- add on, secondary |
pridavok
(msasasci) | pridavok
- addition, add-on, allowance, supplement |
pride
(msasasci) | pride
- will arrives, will arrives, will come, will come |
prideleny
(msasasci) | prideleny
- assigned |
pridelit
(msasasci) | pridelit
- allocate, allot, apportion, assign, deal out, award |
pridruzenie
(msasasci) | pridruzenie
- affiliation |
pridruzeny
(msasasci) | pridruzeny
- subsidiary |
civic pride
(encz) | civic pride, n: |
mountain pride
(encz) | mountain pride, n: |
pride
(encz) | pride,hrdost n: Zdeněk Brožpride,chlouba n: Zdeněk Brožpride,lví smečka n: Pinopride,pýcha |
pride goeth before a fall
(encz) | pride goeth before a fall, |
pride of barbados
(encz) | pride of barbados, n: |
pride of bolivia
(encz) | pride of Bolivia, n: |
pride of california
(encz) | pride of California, n: |
pride of place
(encz) | pride of place, n: |
pride oneself
(encz) | pride oneself,pyšnit se Zdeněk Brož |
pride-of-india
(encz) | pride-of-India, n: |
prided
(encz) | prided, |
prideful
(encz) | prideful, |
pridefully
(encz) | pridefully, |
pridefulness
(encz) | pridefulness, n: |
priding
(encz) | priding, |
self-pride
(encz) | self-pride, n: |
swallow your pride
(encz) | swallow your pride, |
take pride
(encz) | take pride, v: |
with pride
(encz) | with pride, adv: |
Caprid
(gcide) | Caprid \Cap"rid\, a. [L. caper, capra, goat.] (Zool.)
Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat,
or genus Capra, is the type.
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Cyprides
(gcide) | Cypris \Cy"pris\ (s?"pr?s), n.; pl. Cyprides (s?p"r?-d?z). [L.
Cypris, the Cyprian goddess Venus, Gr. Ky`pris. See
Cyprian.] (Zool.)
A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging
to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
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London pride
(gcide) | London \Lon"don\, n.
The capital city of England.
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London paste (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and
unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and
other morbid enlargements.
London pride. (Bot.)
(a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial
herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great
Britain.
(b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. --Dr. Prior.
London rocket (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({Sisymbrium
Irio}) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins
of the great fire of 1667.
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Mountain pride
(gcide) | Mountain \Moun"tain\ (moun"t[i^]n), a.
1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or
living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains;
among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines;
mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
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2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
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The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron.
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Mountain antelope (Zool.), the goral.
Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus
Americana} (or Sorbus Americana), producing beautiful
bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its
flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European
species is the Pyrus aucuparia, or rowan tree.
Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe
transportation, used in measuring the heights of
mountains.
Mountain beaver (Zool.), the sewellel.
Mountain blue (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite.
Mountain cat (Zool.), the catamount. See Catamount.
Mountain chain, a series of contiguous mountain ranges,
generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves.
Mountain cock (Zool.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie.
Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
cork in its texture.
Mountain crystal. See under Crystal.
Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus
Simaruba (Simaruba amarga) growing in the West Indies,
which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes
used in medicine.
Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often
illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous]
Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia
variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called
because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and
in tanning.
Mountain flax (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very
fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus.
Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under
Fumitory.
Mountain goat. (Zool.) See Mazama.
Mountain green. (Min.)
(a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper.
(b) See Green earth, under Green, a.
Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes
Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries.
It is found in the Northern United States.
Mountain laurel (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia
latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy
clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is
poisonous. Called also American laurel, ivy bush, and
calico bush. See Kalmia.
Mountain leather (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
leather in its texture.
Mountain licorice (Bot.), a plant of the genus Trifolium
(Trifolium Alpinum).
Mountain limestone (Geol.), a series of marine limestone
strata below the coal measures, and above the old red
standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology.
Mountain linnet (Zool.), the twite.
Mountain magpie. (Zool.)
(a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
(b) The European gray shrike.
Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany.
Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite,
occurring as an efflorescence.
Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of
lime.
Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mint.
Mountain ousel (Zool.), the ring ousel; -- called also
mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel.
Mountain pride, or Mountain green (Bot.), a tree of
Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which has an unbranched
palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate
leaves.
Mountain quail (Zool.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx
pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender,
plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are
chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black
and white; the neck and breast are dark gray.
Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in
position and direction.
Mountain rice. (Bot.)
(a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation,
in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States.
(b) An American genus of grasses (Oryzopsis).
Mountain rose (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary
flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa
alpina}).
Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish
color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.
Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria
digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small
greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New
Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray.
Mountain sparrow (Zool.), the European tree sparrow.
Mountain spinach. (Bot.) See Orach.
Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica
montana}) of Europe; called also leopard's bane.
Mountain witch (Zool.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the
genus Geotrygon.
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Pride
(gcide) | Pride \Pride\, n. [Cf. AS. lamprede, LL. lampreda, E. lamprey.]
(Zool.)
A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); --
called also prid, and sandpiper.
[1913 Webster]Pride \Pride\, n. [AS. pr[=y]te; akin to Icel. pr[=y][eth]i
honor, ornament, pr??a to adorn, Dan. pryde, Sw. pryda; cf.
W. prydus comely. See Proud.]
1. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate
self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own
superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which
manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and
often in contempt of others.
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Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan.
iv. 37.
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Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
--Franklin.
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2. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is
beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble
self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing;
proud delight; -- in a good sense.
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Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
--Goldsmith.
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A people which takes no pride in the noble
achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve
anything worthy to be remembered with pride by
remote descendants. --Macaulay.
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3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or
arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct;
insolent exultation; disdain.
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Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps.
xxxvi. 11.
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That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak.
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4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or
self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem,
or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty,
ornament, noble character, children, etc.
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Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser.
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I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech.
ix. 6.
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A bold peasantry, their country's pride.
--Goldsmith.
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5. Show; ostentation; glory.
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Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
--Shak.
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6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory;
as, to be in the pride of one's life.
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A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak.
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7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits;
mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an
excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.]
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Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa.
Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel.
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Syn: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness;
lordliness; loftiness.
Usage: Pride, Vanity. Pride is a high or an excessive
esteem of one's self for some real or imagined
superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc.
Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted,
etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride;
but one may have great pride without displaying it.
Vanity, which is etymologically "emptiness," is
applied especially to the exhibition of pride in
superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.
[1913 Webster]Pride \Pride\, v. i.
To be proud; to glory. [R.]
[1913 Webster]Pride \Pride\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prided; p. pr. & vb. n.
Priding.]
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to
plume; -- used reflexively. --Bp. Hall.
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Pluming and priding himself in all his services.
--South.
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Pride of China
(gcide) | Pride \Pride\, n. [AS. pr[=y]te; akin to Icel. pr[=y][eth]i
honor, ornament, pr??a to adorn, Dan. pryde, Sw. pryda; cf.
W. prydus comely. See Proud.]
1. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate
self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own
superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which
manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and
often in contempt of others.
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Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan.
iv. 37.
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Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
--Franklin.
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2. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is
beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble
self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing;
proud delight; -- in a good sense.
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Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
--Goldsmith.
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A people which takes no pride in the noble
achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve
anything worthy to be remembered with pride by
remote descendants. --Macaulay.
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3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or
arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct;
insolent exultation; disdain.
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Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps.
xxxvi. 11.
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That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak.
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4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or
self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem,
or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty,
ornament, noble character, children, etc.
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Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser.
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I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech.
ix. 6.
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A bold peasantry, their country's pride.
--Goldsmith.
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5. Show; ostentation; glory.
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Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
--Shak.
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6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory;
as, to be in the pride of one's life.
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A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak.
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7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits;
mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an
excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.]
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Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa.
Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel.
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Syn: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness;
lordliness; loftiness.
Usage: Pride, Vanity. Pride is a high or an excessive
esteem of one's self for some real or imagined
superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc.
Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted,
etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride;
but one may have great pride without displaying it.
Vanity, which is etymologically "emptiness," is
applied especially to the exhibition of pride in
superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.
[1913 Webster]Margosa \Mar*go"sa\, n. [Pg. amargoso bitter.] (Bot.)
A large tree of the genus Melia (Melia Azadirachta) found
in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable
oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes
from its trunk. The Melia Azedarach is a much more showy
tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where
it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or {bead
tree}. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic.
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The margosa oil . . . is a most valuable balsam for
wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the
attacks of flies. --Sir S.
Baker.
[1913 Webster] MargravateAzedarach \A*zed"a*rach\, azederach \azederach\, n. [F.
az['e]darac, Sp. acederaque, Pers. [=a]z[=a]ddirakht noble
tree.]
1. (Bot.) a handsome tree (Melia azedarach) of the mahogany
family, native to Northern India and China, having long
clusters of fragrant purple blossoms and small ornamental
but inedible yellow fruits. It has been naturalized as a
shade tree and is common in the southern United States; --
called also, chinaberry, China tree, Pride of India,
Pride of China, and Bead tree.
Syn: chinaberry, chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac,
pride-of-India, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia
azedarach
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2. (Med.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a
cathartic and emetic.
[1913 Webster] AzerbaidzhanChina \Chi"na\, n.
1. A country in Eastern Asia.
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2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for
porcelain. See Porcelain.
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China aster (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant.
See Aster.
China bean. See under Bean, 1.
China clay See Kaolin.
China grass, Same as Ramie.
China ink. See India ink.
China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of
Dianthus (Dianthus Chiensis) having variously colored
single or double flowers; Indian pink.
China root (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax
(Smilax China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much
esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used
for. Also the galanga root (from Alpinia Gallanga and
Alpinia officinarum).
China rose. (Bot.)
(a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of
rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other
species.
(b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis)
of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China
and the east Indies.
China shop, a shop or store for the sale of China ware or
of crockery.
Pride of China, China tree. (Bot.) See Azedarach.
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Pride of India
(gcide) | Pride \Pride\, n. [AS. pr[=y]te; akin to Icel. pr[=y][eth]i
honor, ornament, pr??a to adorn, Dan. pryde, Sw. pryda; cf.
W. prydus comely. See Proud.]
1. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate
self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own
superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which
manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and
often in contempt of others.
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Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan.
iv. 37.
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Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
--Franklin.
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2. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is
beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble
self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing;
proud delight; -- in a good sense.
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Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
--Goldsmith.
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A people which takes no pride in the noble
achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve
anything worthy to be remembered with pride by
remote descendants. --Macaulay.
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3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or
arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct;
insolent exultation; disdain.
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Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps.
xxxvi. 11.
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That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak.
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4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or
self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem,
or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty,
ornament, noble character, children, etc.
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Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser.
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I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech.
ix. 6.
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A bold peasantry, their country's pride.
--Goldsmith.
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5. Show; ostentation; glory.
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Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
--Shak.
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6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory;
as, to be in the pride of one's life.
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A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak.
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7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits;
mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an
excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.]
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Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa.
Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel.
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Syn: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness;
lordliness; loftiness.
Usage: Pride, Vanity. Pride is a high or an excessive
esteem of one's self for some real or imagined
superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc.
Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted,
etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride;
but one may have great pride without displaying it.
Vanity, which is etymologically "emptiness," is
applied especially to the exhibition of pride in
superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.
[1913 Webster]Margosa \Mar*go"sa\, n. [Pg. amargoso bitter.] (Bot.)
A large tree of the genus Melia (Melia Azadirachta) found
in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable
oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes
from its trunk. The Melia Azedarach is a much more showy
tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where
it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or {bead
tree}. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic.
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The margosa oil . . . is a most valuable balsam for
wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the
attacks of flies. --Sir S.
Baker.
[1913 Webster] MargravateAzedarach \A*zed"a*rach\, azederach \azederach\, n. [F.
az['e]darac, Sp. acederaque, Pers. [=a]z[=a]ddirakht noble
tree.]
1. (Bot.) a handsome tree (Melia azedarach) of the mahogany
family, native to Northern India and China, having long
clusters of fragrant purple blossoms and small ornamental
but inedible yellow fruits. It has been naturalized as a
shade tree and is common in the southern United States; --
called also, chinaberry, China tree, Pride of India,
Pride of China, and Bead tree.
Syn: chinaberry, chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac,
pride-of-India, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia
azedarach
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2. (Med.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a
cathartic and emetic.
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Pride of the desert
(gcide) | Pride \Pride\, n. [AS. pr[=y]te; akin to Icel. pr[=y][eth]i
honor, ornament, pr??a to adorn, Dan. pryde, Sw. pryda; cf.
W. prydus comely. See Proud.]
1. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate
self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own
superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which
manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and
often in contempt of others.
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Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan.
iv. 37.
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Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
--Franklin.
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2. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is
beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble
self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing;
proud delight; -- in a good sense.
[1913 Webster]
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
--Goldsmith.
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A people which takes no pride in the noble
achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve
anything worthy to be remembered with pride by
remote descendants. --Macaulay.
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3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or
arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct;
insolent exultation; disdain.
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Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps.
xxxvi. 11.
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That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak.
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4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or
self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem,
or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty,
ornament, noble character, children, etc.
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Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser.
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I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech.
ix. 6.
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A bold peasantry, their country's pride.
--Goldsmith.
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5. Show; ostentation; glory.
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Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
--Shak.
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6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory;
as, to be in the pride of one's life.
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A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak.
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7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits;
mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an
excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. [Obs.]
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Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa.
Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel.
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Syn: Self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness;
lordliness; loftiness.
Usage: Pride, Vanity. Pride is a high or an excessive
esteem of one's self for some real or imagined
superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc.
Vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted,
etc., by others. Vanity is an ostentation of pride;
but one may have great pride without displaying it.
Vanity, which is etymologically "emptiness," is
applied especially to the exhibition of pride in
superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.
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Prided
(gcide) | Pride \Pride\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prided; p. pr. & vb. n.
Priding.]
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to
plume; -- used reflexively. --Bp. Hall.
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Pluming and priding himself in all his services.
--South.
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Prideful
(gcide) | Prideful \Pride"ful\, a.
Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson.
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n.
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Pridefully
(gcide) | Prideful \Pride"ful\, a.
Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson.
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n.
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Prideful-ness
(gcide) | Prideful \Pride"ful\, a.
Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson.
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n.
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Prideless
(gcide) | Prideless \Pride"less\, a.
Without pride. --Chaucer.
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Pridian
(gcide) | Pridian \Prid"i*an\, a. [L. pridianus.]
Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday. [R.]
--Thackeray.
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Priding
(gcide) | Pride \Pride\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prided; p. pr. & vb. n.
Priding.]
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to
plume; -- used reflexively. --Bp. Hall.
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Pluming and priding himself in all his services.
--South.
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Pridingly
(gcide) | Pridingly \Prid"ing*ly\, adv.
Proudly. [Obs.]
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Prinpriddle
(gcide) | Prinpriddle \Prin"prid`dle\, n. (Zool.)
The long-tailed titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
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Purse pride
(gcide) | Purse \Purse\, n. [OE. purs, pors, OF. burse, borse, bourse, F.
bourse, LL. bursa, fr. Gr. ? hide, skin, leather. Cf.
Bourse, Bursch, Bursar, Buskin.]
1. A small bag or pouch, the opening of which is made to draw
together closely, used to carry money in; by extension,
any receptacle for money carried on the person; a wallet;
a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. --Chaucer.
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Who steals my purse steals trash. --Shak.
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2. Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.
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3. A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a
present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse.
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4. A specific sum of money; as:
(a) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.
(b) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans.
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Light purse, or Empty purse, poverty or want of
resources.
Long purse, or Heavy purse, wealth; riches.
Purse crab (Zool.), any land crab of the genus Birgus,
allied to the hermit crabs. They sometimes weigh twenty
pounds or more, and are very strong, being able to crack
cocoanuts with the large claw. They chiefly inhabit the
tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, living
in holes and feeding upon fruit. Called also palm crab.
Purse net, a fishing net, the mouth of which may be closed
or drawn together like a purse. --Mortimer.
Purse pride, pride of money; insolence proceeding from the
possession of wealth. --Bp. Hall.
Purse rat. (Zool.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket.
Sword and purse, the military power and financial resources
of a nation.
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Sand pride
(gcide) | Sand \Sand\, n. [AS. sand; akin to D. zand, G. sand, OHG. sant,
Icel. sandr, Dan. & Sw. sand, Gr. ?.]
1. Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not
reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose
grains, which are not coherent when wet.
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That finer matter, called sand, is no other than
very small pebbles. --Woodward.
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2. A single particle of such stone. [R.] --Shak.
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3. The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of
time; the term or extent of one's life.
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The sands are numbered that make up my life. --Shak.
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4. pl. Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of
Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed
by the ebb of the tide. "The Libyan sands." --Milton. "The
sands o' Dee." --C. Kingsley.
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5. Courage; pluck; grit. [Slang]
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Sand badger (Zool.), the Japanese badger (Meles ankuma).
Sand bag.
(a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various
purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc.
(b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by
assassins.
Sand ball, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball for use
at the toilet.
Sand bath.
(a) (Chem.) A vessel of hot sand in a laboratory, in which
vessels that are to be heated are partially immersed.
(b) A bath in which the body is immersed in hot sand.
Sand bed, a thick layer of sand, whether deposited
naturally or artificially; specifically, a thick layer of
sand into which molten metal is run in casting, or from a
reducing furnace.
Sand birds (Zool.), a collective name for numerous species
of limicoline birds, such as the sandpipers, plovers,
tattlers, and many others; -- called also shore birds.
Sand blast, a process of engraving and cutting glass and
other hard substances by driving sand against them by a
steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the
process.
Sand box.
(a) A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling
paper with sand.
(b) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on
the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent
slipping.
Sand-box tree (Bot.), a tropical American tree ({Hura
crepitans}). Its fruit is a depressed many-celled woody
capsule which, when completely dry, bursts with a loud
report and scatters the seeds. See Illust. of Regma.
Sand bug (Zool.), an American anomuran crustacean ({Hippa
talpoidea}) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It is often
used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under Anomura.
Sand canal (Zool.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous
coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the
madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in
function.
Sand cock (Zool.), the redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
Sand collar. (Zool.) Same as Sand saucer, below.
Sand crab. (Zool.)
(a) The lady crab.
(b) A land crab, or ocypodian.
Sand crack (Far.), a crack extending downward from the
coronet, in the wall of a horse's hoof, which often causes
lameness.
Sand cricket (Zool.), any one of several species of large
terrestrial crickets of the genus Stenophelmatus and
allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the Western
United States.
Sand cusk (Zool.), any ophidioid fish. See Illust. under
Ophidioid.
Sand dab (Zool.), a small American flounder ({Limanda
ferruginea}); -- called also rusty dab. The name is also
applied locally to other allied species.
Sand darter (Zool.), a small etheostomoid fish of the Ohio
valley (Ammocrypta pellucida).
Sand dollar (Zool.), any one of several species of small
flat circular sea urchins, which live on sandy bottoms,
especially Echinarachnius parma of the American coast.
Sand drift, drifting sand; also, a mound or bank of drifted
sand.
Sand eel. (Zool.)
(a) A lant, or launce.
(b) A slender Pacific Ocean fish of the genus
Gonorhynchus, having barbels about the mouth.
Sand flag, sandstone which splits up into flagstones.
Sand flea. (Zool.)
(a) Any species of flea which inhabits, or breeds in,
sandy places, especially the common dog flea.
(b) The chigoe.
(c) Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or
orchestian. See Beach flea, under Beach.
Sand flood, a vast body of sand borne along by the wind.
--James Bruce.
Sand fluke. (Zool.)
(a) The sandnecker.
(b) The European smooth dab ({Pleuronectes
microcephalus}); -- called also kitt, marysole,
smear dab, town dab.
Sand fly (Zool.), any one of several species of small
dipterous flies of the genus Simulium, abounding on
sandy shores, especially Simulium nocivum of the United
States. They are very troublesome on account of their
biting habits. Called also no-see-um, punky, and
midge.
Sand gall. (Geol.) See Sand pipe, below.
Sand grass (Bot.), any species of grass which grows in
sand; especially, a tufted grass (Triplasis purpurea)
with numerous bearded joints, and acid awl-shaped leaves,
growing on the Atlantic coast.
Sand grouse (Zool.), any one of many species of Old World
birds belonging to the suborder Pterocletes, and
resembling both grouse and pigeons. Called also {rock
grouse}, rock pigeon, and ganga. They mostly belong to
the genus Pterocles, as the common Indian species
(Pterocles exustus). The large sand grouse ({Pterocles
arenarius}), the painted sand grouse ({Pterocles
fasciatus}), and the pintail sand grouse ({Pterocles
alchata}) are also found in India. See Illust. under
Pterocletes.
Sand hill, a hill of sand; a dune.
Sand-hill crane (Zool.), the American brown crane ({Grus
Mexicana}).
Sand hopper (Zool.), a beach flea; an orchestian.
Sand hornet (Zool.), a sand wasp.
Sand lark. (Zool.)
(a) A small lark (Alaudala raytal), native of India.
(b) A small sandpiper, or plover, as the ringneck, the
sanderling, and the common European sandpiper.
(c) The Australian red-capped dotterel ({Aegialophilus
ruficapillus}); -- called also red-necked plover.
Sand launce (Zool.), a lant, or launce.
Sand lizard (Zool.), a common European lizard ({Lacerta
agilis}).
Sand martin (Zool.), the bank swallow.
Sand mole (Zool.), the coast rat.
Sand monitor (Zool.), a large Egyptian lizard ({Monitor
arenarius}) which inhabits dry localities.
Sand mouse (Zool.), the dunlin. [Prov. Eng.]
Sand myrtle. (Bot.) See under Myrtle.
Sand partridge (Zool.), either of two small Asiatic
partridges of the genus Ammoperdix. The wings are long
and the tarsus is spurless. One species ({Ammoperdix
Heeji}) inhabits Palestine and Arabia. The other species
(Ammoperdix Bonhami), inhabiting Central Asia, is called
also seesee partridge, and teehoo.
Sand picture, a picture made by putting sand of different
colors on an adhesive surface.
Sand pike. (Zool.)
(a) The sauger.
(b) The lizard fish.
Sand pillar, a sand storm which takes the form of a
whirling pillar in its progress in desert tracts like
those of the Sahara and Mongolia.
Sand pipe (Geol.), a tubular cavity, from a few inches to
several feet in depth, occurring especially in calcareous
rocks, and often filled with gravel, sand, etc.; -- called
also sand gall.
Sand pride (Zool.), a small British lamprey now considered
to be the young of larger species; -- called also {sand
prey}.
Sand pump, in artesian well boring, a long, slender bucket
with a valve at the bottom for raising sand from the well.
Sand rat (Zool.), the pocket gopher.
Sand rock, a rock made of cemented sand.
Sand runner (Zool.), the turnstone.
Sand saucer (Zool.), the mass of egg capsules, or oothecae,
of any mollusk of the genus Natica and allied genera. It
has the shape of a bottomless saucer, and is coated with
fine sand; -- called also sand collar.
Sand screw (Zool.), an amphipod crustacean ({Lepidactylis
arenarius}), which burrows in the sandy seabeaches of
Europe and America.
Sand shark (Zool.), an American shark ({Odontaspis
littoralis}) found on the sandy coasts of the Eastern
United States; -- called also gray shark, and {dogfish
shark}. See Illust. under Remora.
Sand skink (Zool.), any one of several species of Old World
lizards belonging to the genus Seps; as, the ocellated
sand skink (Seps ocellatus) of Southern Europe.
Sand skipper (Zool.), a beach flea, or orchestian.
Sand smelt (Zool.), a silverside.
Sand snake. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of harmless burrowing
snakes of the genus Eryx, native of Southern Europe,
Africa, and Asia, especially Eryx jaculus of India
and Eryx Johnii, used by snake charmers.
(b) Any innocuous South African snake of the genus
Psammophis, especially Psammophis sibilans.
Sand snipe (Zool.), the sandpiper.
Sand star (Zool.), an ophiurioid starfish living on sandy
sea bottoms; a brittle star.
Sand storm, a cloud of sand driven violently by the wind.
Sand sucker, the sandnecker.
Sand swallow (Zool.), the bank swallow. See under Bank.
Sand trap, (Golf) a shallow pit on a golf course having a
layer of sand in it, usually located near a green, and
designed to function as a hazard, due to the difficulty of
hitting balls effectively from such a position.
Sand tube, a tube made of sand. Especially:
(a) A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of
lightning; a fulgurite.
(b) (Zool.) Any tube made of cemented sand.
(c) (Zool.) In starfishes, a tube having calcareous
particles in its wall, which connects the oral water
tube with the madreporic plate.
Sand viper. (Zool.) See Hognose snake.
Sand wasp (Zool.), any one of numerous species of
hymenopterous insects belonging to the families
Pompilidae and Spheridae, which dig burrows in sand.
The female provisions the nest with insects or spiders
which she paralyzes by stinging, and which serve as food
for her young.
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Upridged
(gcide) | Upridged \Up*ridged"\, a.
Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged.
--Cowper.
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