Definition of Proin

1. v. t. To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn.

2. v. i. To employed in pruning.

Definition of Proin

1. to prune [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: prune

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proin

prohibitionists
prohibitions
prohibitive
prohibitive mood
prohibitively
prohibitiveness
prohibitives
prohibitory
prohibits
prohormone
prohormones
proign
proigned
proigning
proigns
proin (current term)
proindustrial
proine
proined
proines
proinflamation
proinflammatory
proining
proins
proinsulin
proinsulins
project
project engineer
project evaluation and review technique
project evaluation review technique

Literary usage of Proin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"They often in the end make their appearance externally in the iliac fossa of the proin, and it is not always easy to distinguish them from those of the ..."

2. The London Medical Gazette (1830)
"... had taken place from the ham to the foot, and great tenderness was experienced along the inner surface of the thigh to the proin. " 23d. ..."

3. The Commentaries of Gaius by Gaius, John Thomas Abdy (1870)
"... proin^ valere putant, ac si ea condicio adiecta non esset: diverse sc/wlae auctores non minus legatum inutile enquire into the rules of individual ..."

4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"with a spondee proin tu, but the MSS. read only proin, which we should pronounce in ... In saying so, I do not forget that Lucretius, at least, has proin as ..."

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