[Asterism] "Prince Prettyman" is said to be a parody on "Leonidas" in
Dryden's _Marriage-[`a]-la-mode_.

=Pri'amus= (_Sir_), a knight of the Round Table. He possessed a phial,
full of four waters that came from paradise. These waters instantly
healed any wounds which were touched by them.

"My father," says Sir Priamus, "is lineally descended of Alexander
and of Hector by right line. Duke Josu[^e] and Machabaeus were of our
lineage. I am right inheritor of Alexandria, and Affrike of all the
out isles."

And Priamus took from his page a phial, full of four waters that
came out of paradise; and with certain balm nointed he their
wounds, and washed them with that water, and within an hour after
they were both as whole as ever they were.--Sir T. Malory, _History
of Prince Arthur_, i. 97 (1470).

=Price= (_Matilda_), a miller's daughter; a pretty, coquettish young
woman, who marries John Browdie, a hearty Yorkshire corn-factor.--C.
Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1838).

=Pride= (_Sir_), first a drayman, then a colonel in the parliamentary
army.--S. Butler, _Hudibras_ (1663-78).

=Pride of Humility.= Antisth[)e]n[^e]s, the Cynic, affected a very
ragged coat; but Socr[)a]t[^e]s said to him, "Antisthen[^e]s, I can see
your vanity peering through the holes of your coat."

=Pride's Purge=, a violent invasion of parliamentary rights by Colonel
Pride, in 1649. At the head of two regiments of soldiers he surrounded
the House of Commons, seized forty-one of the members and shut out 160
others. None were allowed into the House but those most friendly to
Cromwell. This fag-end went by the name of "the Rump."

=Pridwin= or PRIWEN, Prince Arthur's shield.

Arthur placed a golden helmet upon his head, on which was engraven
the figure of a dragon; and on his shoulders his shield, called
Priwen, upon which the picture of the blessed Mary, mother of God,
was painted; then, girding on his Caliburn, which was an excellent
sword, made in the isle of Avallon; he took in his right hand his
lance, Ron, which was hard, broad, and fit for
slaughter.--Geoffrey, _British History_, ix. 4 (1142).

=Priest of Nature=, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727).

Lo! Newton, priest of nature, shines afar,
Scans the wide world, and numbers every star.

Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, i. (1799).

=Prig=, a knavish beggar.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The B