Lexicographical Neighbors of Proining
Literary usage of Proining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"proining. Prying. Line. PROJECTION. Au operation in alchemy ; the moment of
transmutation. He revealed to one Roger Cooke the great secret of the ..."
2. An Introductory Sketch to the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 1588-1590 by Edward Arber (1895)
"A good husband-[man] is ever proining in his vineyard or his field: not unseasonably,
indeed ; not unskilfully ; but lightly he findeth ever somewhat to do. ..."
3. Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticism on by Nathan Drake (1817)
"... and proining, set within, toward each end one. " Hereto, their diversity of
meats, their fine several vessels for their water and sundry grains; ..."
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