Definition of proa

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Proa (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known..

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Exprobration :: Exprobration (n.) Reproachful accusation; upbraiding.
Uproar :: Uproar (n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
Hullabaloo :: Hullabaloo (n.) A confused noise; uproar; tumult.
Scandalize :: Scandalize (v. t.) To reproach; to libel; to defame; to slander.
Reproach :: Reproach (v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.
Upbraid :: Upbraid (v. t.) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person.
Stingaree :: Sting (v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches..
Approach :: Approach (v. t.) To take approaches to.
Induce :: Induce (v. t.) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state..
Toward :: Toward (prep.) Approaching; coming near.
Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To reproach. [Obs.] See Upbraid.
Carrion :: Carrion (n.) A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach.
Pock-pudding :: Pock-pudding (n.) A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
Door :: Door (n.) Passage; means of approach or access.
Hussy :: Hussy (n.) A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach.
Exprobrate :: Exprobrate (v. t.) To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid.
Avenue :: Avenue (n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered..
Sting :: Sting (v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach..
Dawn :: Dawn (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
Reproachless :: Reproachless (a.) Being without reproach.
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