These are the meanings of the letters PRANCOME when you unscramble them.
- Compare (n.)
Comparison.
- Compare (n.)
Illustration by comparison; simile.
- Compare (v. i.)
To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
- Compare (v. i.)
To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
- Compare (v. t.)
To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
- Compare (v. t.)
To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire
- Compare (v. t.)
To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing \"- er\" and \"-est\" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing \"more\" and \"most\", or \"less\" and \"least\", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.
- Compare (v. t.)
To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
- Crampon (n.)
An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
- Manrope (n.)
One of the side ropes to the gangway of a ship.
- Romance (a.)
Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
- Romance (n.)
A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
- Romance (n.)
A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
- Romance (n.)
A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
- Romance (n.)
An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
- Romance (n.)
The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
- Romance (v. i.)
To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.