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n. [ from Brompton Hospital, London. ](Pharmacy) A mixture containing morphine and cocaine, and sometimes other narcotic substances, such as heroin, in an alcoholic solution, administered mostly to terminally ill patients, especially cancer patients, to relieve severe pain. Its use is not universally accepted as good medical practice. [ PJC ]

a. Not ready. [ R. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. or a. [ F. impromptu, fr. L. in promptu in readiness, at hand; in in + promptus visibility, readiness, from promptus visible, ready. See Prompt. ] Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something made or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) A piece composed or played at first thought; a composition in the style of an extempore piece. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too prompt; too ready or eager; precipitate. -- O`ver*prompt"ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Compar. Prompter superl. Promptest. ] [ F. prompt, L. promptus, properly, brought forth (to light or view), hence, visible, evident, at hand, ready, quick, -- p. p. of promere to take or bring forth; pro forth + emere to take. See Redeem. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; -- said of persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

Very discerning and prompt in giving orders. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tell him I am prompt
To lay my crown at's feet. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And you, perhaps, too prompt in your replies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately; given without delay or hesitation; -- said of conduct; as, prompt assistance. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Washington heard the voice of his country in distress,
his obedience was prompt. Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Easy; unobstructed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The reception of the light into the body of the building was very prompt. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Ready; expeditious; quick; agile; alert; brisk; nimble. -- Prompt, Ready, Expeditious. One who is ready is prepared to act at the moment. One who is prompt acts at the moment. One who is expeditious carries through an undertaking with constant promptness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Com.) A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cover any probable difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [ tea ] is three months. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prompted; p. pr. & vb. n. Prompting. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite. [ 1913 Webster ]

God first . . . prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To suggest; to dictate. [ 1913 Webster ]

And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The book used by a prompter of a theater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. promptitudo. See Prompt, a. ] The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men of action, of promptitude, and of courage. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a prompt manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Com.) A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to preparation. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. promptuarium, fr. promptuarius belonging to distribution, distributing: cf, F. promptuaire. See Prompt, a. ] That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Prompt, a. ] Suggestion; incitement; prompting. [ R. ] Shak. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Romped p. pr. & vb. n. Romping. ] [ A variant of ramp. See Ramp to leap, Rampallian. ] 1. To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To go rapidly and without strained effort. [ PJC ]

3. To win easily; -- often used with over, in sports games; as, the Yankees romped over the Boston Red Sox, 10-2. [ PJC ]

n. 1. A girl who indulges in boisterous play. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport. [ 1913 Webster ]

While romp-loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined to romp; indulging in romps. [ 1913 Webster ]

A little romping girl from boarding school. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a romping manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to rude play; inclined to romp; frolicsome. [ 1913 Webster ]

--- Romp"ish, adv. -- Romp"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. rompu, p. p. of rompre to breeak, L. rumpere. See Rupture. ] (Her.) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance (C6H3OBr3) prepared by the reaction of carbolic acid with bromine. The predominant isomer is 2, 4, 6-tribromophenol; -- called also bromol. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ F. trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Cf. Trump a trumpet. ] A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [ Written also trompe, and trombe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ See Trump a trumpet. ] A trumpet; a trump. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]