| proud | 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous. "Nor much expect A foe so proud will first the weaker seek." (Milton) "O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty !" (Shak) "And shades impervious to the proud world's glare." (Keble) Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; often with of; as, proud of one's country. "Proud to be checked and soothed." "Are we proud men proud of being proud ?" (Thackeray) 2. Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. "Of shadow proud." . "Proud titles." " The proud temple's height." "Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud." (Keble) 3. Excited by sexual desire; applied particularly to the females of some animals. Proud is often used with participles in the formation of compounds which, for the most part, are self-explaining; as, proud-crested, proud-minded, proud-swelling. <medicine> Proud flesh, a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer. Origin: OE. Proud, prout, prud, prut, AS. Prut; akin to Icel. Pruthr stately, handsome, Dan. Prud handsome. Cf. Pride. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| proud flesh | Exuberant granulations in the granulation tissue on the surface of a wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| winter-proud | Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. "When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early." (Holland) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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