an epithet applied to a periodical disease which anticipates, or whose paroxysm returns sooner and sooner every time; as is frequently the case in agues.

PROLIFER ξειος, (prole, "an offspring;" and ferō, "to bear") a prolific flower, or a flower which from its own substance produces another; a singular degree of luxuriance, to which full flowers are chiefly incident. See BOTANY.