it or seed.

_Potter's clay_, the clay used in making articles of pottery.

_Prairie_, a French word, signifying _meadow_. In the United States, it
is applied to the remarkable natural meadows, or plains, which are found
in the Western States. In some of these vast and nearly level plains,
the traveller may wander for days, without meeting with wood or water,
and see no object rising above the plane of the horizon. They are very
fertile.

_Prime Minister_, the person appointed by the ruler of a nation to have
the chief direction and management of the public affairs.

_Process_, a protuberance, or projecting part of a bone.

_Pulmonary_, belonging to, or affecting, the lungs. _Pulmonary artery_,
an artery which passes through the lungs, being divided into several
branches, which form a beautiful network over the air-vessels, and
finally empty themselves into the left auricle of the heart.

_Puritans_, a sect, which professed to follow the pure word of God, in
opposition to traditions, human constitutions, and other authorities. In
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, part of the Protestants were desirous of
introducing a simpler, and, as they considered it, a _purer_, form of
church government and worship, than that established by law; from which
circumstance, they were called _Puritans_. In process of time, this
party increased in numbers, and openly broke off from the Church, laying
aside the English liturgy, and adopting a service-book published at
Geneva, by the disciples of Calvin. They were treated with great rigor
by the Government, and many of them left the kingdom and settled in
Holland. Finding themselves not so eligibly situated in that Country, as
they had expected to be, a portion of them embarked for America, and
were the first settlers of New England.

_Quixotic_, absurd, romantic, ridiculous; from _Don Quixote_, the hero
of a celebrated fictitious work, written by Cervantes, a distinguished
Spanish writer, and intended to reform the tastes and opinions of his
countrymen.

_Reeking_, smoking, emitting vapor.

_Residuum_, the remainder, or part which remains.

_Routine_, a round, or course of engagements, business, pleasure, &c.

To _Run_ a seam, to lay the two edges of a seam together, and pass the
threaded needle out and in, with small stitches, a few threads below the
edge, and on a line with it.

To _Run_ a stocking, to pass a thread of yarn, with a needle, straight
along each row of the stocking