- Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of
cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main
branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth;
trifacial.
- The art or process of putting designs or writing, with
a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions
therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between
grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from
adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See
Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.
- A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of,
in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go
before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken
before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for;
pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place
of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.