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1. (meteorology) To prognosticate; to forecast.Examples: "The thermodynamics of this system are progged to be similar to the "surprise" epic Oct 2006 Buffalo, NY lake effect snow event."

1. (obsolete, slang) Provisions, food and supplies, particularly for a journey.Examples: "O nephew! your grief is but folly; ⁠In town you may find better prog"; "Let's see what prog we have for supper; the kettle has boiled long enough; my stomach cries cupboard […]"; "So long as he picked from the filth his prog."countableobsoleteslanguncountable

2. (obsolete) Plunder; booty.countableobsoleteuncountable

3. (obsolete, slang) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.countableobsoleteslanguncountable

4. (dialect) A pointed instrument.countabledialectaluncountable

1. (obsolete, usually of an animal) To feed and care for oneself, as opposed to being fed and cared for by someone (like a domesticated animal).Examples: "To be wise about affares of this life (these fleeting, these empty, these deceitful shadows) is a sorry wisdom; to be wise in purveying for the flesh, is the wisdom of a beast, which is wise enough to prog for its sustenance;"; "An old Fox thinks he has given his young Cubs Portion enough, when he has taught them to shift in the World: At first he provides Lambs and Chickens for them; but when once they come to be at the age of discretion, he thinks it enough that he has begot them wit and parts, and leave them to prog for themselves ."; "Or was it my duty to keep and maintain them, after they were of fufficient bigness to prog for themselves? The birds and beasts take care of their young no longer than till they are able to care for themselves ; and why should man be confin'd to more severe laws in that point than his vassal-creatures?"obsoleteusually

2. (obsolete) To seek food and wealth as opposed to pursuing spiritual goals.Examples: "They abuse what light of Reason they have, rendring it a slave to those brutish powers of life (it ought to direct and rule over ) so as to prog about and fetch in provisions for them."; "For God knows that is too apt to provide for itself, and to prog and purvey for the satisfaction of its vile desires."; "And when it is so apparent that the main of our Design is to prog for our Flesh , and make a comfortable Provision for a few Years Ease and Luxury, who would think that we believed ourselves to be immortal Spirits that must live for ever in an inconceivable Happiness or Misery?"obsolete

3. (obsolete, slang) To seek food, goods, or money by low arts, such as begging, trickery, or abuse of power.Examples: "a perfect artist in progging for money"; "And yet this most mild, though withal dreadful and inviolable Prerogative of Christs Diadem, Excommunication servs for nothing with them, but to prog and pander for Fees, or to display their Pride, and sharpen their Revenge, debarring Men the protection of the Law; and I remember not whether in some Cases it breave not Men all right to their worldly Goods and Inheritances, besides the denial of Christian burial."; "they shut me up in a by Place of their Appartment, and, as they us'd to prog for themselves, I us'd also to watch the Opportunity of their Bathing, or any other Business that call'd 'em both side; then I fed like a Farmer, mightily pleas'd, that now I was come to a Diet that suited naturally to my Appetite."obsoleteslang

4. (obsolete, slang) To steal; to rob; to filch.Examples: "And hence we may take it for granted, there will always be some lavish People in every Prince's Court, where a Royal Table is kept, to waste and confound; to prog for themselyes, and regale their Friends, and to destroy more in one Day, by their clandestine Tricks, than would ine half the CROWN'D HEADS in Europe. But imbeziling of Belly-Timber, they think is no such extraordinary Offence in a Palace, tithout any Regard all the While to Conscience and Honour, or the King they cheat."; "Their Servants have their Meat reach'd them by their Masters, which they eat behind their Backs. They bring twice as much WIne as their Masters need, and drink the Remainder themselves. They seize on what is left after Dinner. And their Ladies each of them carry a Napkin to prog for dry'd Sweet-meats or Fruits."; "What less than fool is man to prog and plot, And lavish out the cream of all his care, To gain poor seeming goods, which, being got, Make firm possession but a thoroughfare;"obsoleteslang

5. (Scotland) To prick; to goad; to progue.Examples: "An' on his royal paunches thole A dwarf to prog him wi' a pole; While he wad shaw his fangs, an' rage Wi' bootless wrangling in his cage."Scotland

1. (politics) Abbreviation of Progressive Party.abbreviationalt-of

1. (politics) Abbreviation of Progressive.abbreviationalt-of