Prairie
['preərɪ] or ['prɛri]
Definition
(n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.
(n.) A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.
Checker: Williams
Definition
n. an extensive meadow or tract of land level or rolling without trees and covered with tall coarse grass.—adj. Prai′ried.—ns. Prai′rie-dog a small gregarious North American marmot; Prai′rie-hawk the American sparrow-hawk; Prai′rie-hen a gallinaceous North American bird: the sharp-tailed grouse; Prai′rie-war′bler an American warbler yellow with black spots; Prai′rie-wolf the coyote.
Typist: Manfred
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a prairie, denotes that you will enjoy ease, and even luxury and unobstructed progress. An undulating prairie, covered with growing grasses and flowers, signifies joyous happenings. A barren prairie, represents loss and sadness through the absence of friends. To be lost on one, is a sign of sadness and ill luck.
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Examples
- That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The prairie grass was tall and we could not see the beasts, but the sound indicated that they were near. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The animals sold to the government were all young and unbroken, even to the saddle, and were quite as wild as the wild horses of the prairie. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What Kind of Dogs are Prairie-Dogs? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is possible to travel for days at a time through country which is dotted over with mounds, every one of which is the home of a pair or more of prairie-dogs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Prairie-dogs are not really dogs at all, but a kind of a squirrel called a marmot. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The country was a rolling prairie, and, from the higher ground, the vision was obstructed only by the earth's curvature. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This is thrown up by the prairie-dog when he digs out his subterranean home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Great areas of the American interior were prairie land, whose nomadic tribes subsisted upon vast herds of the now practically extinct bison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ice of the last glacial age receded gradually, and gave way to a long period of steppe or prairie-like conditions over the great plain of Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He who has prairie fever once always gets it again, and it sends him off on his travels into the wilds as if he were stung by the gadfly of Io. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In this year, Mr. McCormick started for the western prairie, and in 1847 built his own factory in Chicago, thus starting the world’s greatest reaper works. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Broad as the prairies and free in thought as the winds that sweep them, he is idiosyncratically opposed to loose and wasteful methods, to plans of empire that neglect the poor at the gate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Marie