Vocabulary : Priorship to Prismatic

Priorship : The state or office of prior; priorate.
Priory : A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
Pris : See Price, and 1st Prize.
Prisage : A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this. ;; The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.
Priscillianist : A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

Prise : An enterprise. ;; See Prize, n., 5. Also Prize, v. t.
Priser : See 1st Prizer.
Prism : A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms. ;; A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc. ;; A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
Prism glass : Glass with one side smooth and the other side formed into sharp-edged ridges so as to reflect the light that passes through, used at windows to throw the light into the interior.
Prismatic : Alt. of Prismatical

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