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slovo definícia pride (mass) pride - pýcha pride (msasasci) pride - will arrives, will arrives, will come, will come pride (encz) pride,hrdost n: Zdeněk Brož pride (encz) pride,chlouba n: Zdeněk Brož pride (encz) pride,lví smečka n: Pino pride (encz) pride,pýcha 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 (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. [1913 Webster] Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan. iv. 37. [1913 Webster] Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. --Franklin. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. [1913 Webster] Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps. xxxvi. 11. [1913 Webster] That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech. ix. 6. [1913 Webster] A bold peasantry, their country's pride. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 5. Show; ostentation; glory. [1913 Webster] Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. [1913 Webster] A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa. Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel. [1913 Webster] 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 (gcide) Pride \Pride\, v. i. To be proud; to glory. [R.] [1913 Webster] Pride (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. [1913 Webster] Pluming and priding himself in all his services. --South. [1913 Webster] pride (wn) pride n 1: a feeling of self-respect and personal worth [syn: pride, pridefulness] [ant: humbleness, humility] 2: satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements; "he takes pride in his son's success" 3: the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards 4: a group of lions 5: unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: pride, superbia] v 1: be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school" [syn: pride, plume, congratulate] pride (vera) PRIDE PRofitable Information by DEsign (IRM)

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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. [1913 Webster] London pride (gcide) London \Lon"don\, n. The capital city of England. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great. [1913 Webster] The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan. iv. 37. [1913 Webster] Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. --Franklin. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. [1913 Webster] Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps. xxxvi. 11. [1913 Webster] That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech. ix. 6. [1913 Webster] A bold peasantry, their country's pride. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 5. Show; ostentation; glory. [1913 Webster] Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. [1913 Webster] A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa. Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Pluming and priding himself in all his services. --South. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan. iv. 37. [1913 Webster] Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. --Franklin. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. [1913 Webster] Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps. xxxvi. 11. [1913 Webster] That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech. ix. 6. [1913 Webster] A bold peasantry, their country's pride. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 5. Show; ostentation; glory. [1913 Webster] Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. [1913 Webster] A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa. Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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 [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan. iv. 37. [1913 Webster] Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. --Franklin. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. [1913 Webster] Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps. xxxvi. 11. [1913 Webster] That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech. ix. 6. [1913 Webster] A bold peasantry, their country's pride. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 5. Show; ostentation; glory. [1913 Webster] Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. [1913 Webster] A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa. Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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 [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 2. (Med.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic. [1913 Webster] Azerbaidzhan 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. [1913 Webster] Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --Dan. iv. 37. [1913 Webster] Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. --Franklin. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. [1913 Webster] Let not the foot of pride come against me. --Ps. xxxvi. 11. [1913 Webster] That hardly we escaped the pride of France. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. --Zech. ix. 6. [1913 Webster] A bold peasantry, their country's pride. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 5. Show; ostentation; glory. [1913 Webster] Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. [1913 Webster] A falcon, towering in her pride of place. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] Pride of India, or Pride of China. (Bot.) See Margosa. Pride of the desert (Zool.), the camel. [1913 Webster] 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] 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. [1913 Webster] Pluming and priding himself in all his services. --South. [1913 Webster] Prideful (gcide) Prideful \Pride"ful\, a. Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] -- Pride"ful*ly, adv. -- Pride"ful-ness, n. [1913 Webster] Pridefully (gcide) Prideful \Pride"ful\, a. Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] -- Pride"ful*ly, adv. -- Pride"ful-ness, n. [1913 Webster] Prideful-ness (gcide) Prideful \Pride"ful\, a. Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] -- Pride"ful*ly, adv. -- Pride"ful-ness, n. [1913 Webster] Prideless (gcide) Prideless \Pride"less\, a. Without pride. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Who steals my purse steals trash. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse. [1913 Webster] 3. A sum of money offered as a prize, or collected as a present; as, to win the purse; to make up a purse. [1913 Webster] 4. A specific sum of money; as: (a) In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters. (b) In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] That finer matter, called sand, is no other than very small pebbles. --Woodward. [1913 Webster] 2. A single particle of such stone. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life. [1913 Webster] The sands are numbered that make up my life. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. Courage; pluck; grit. [Slang] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]