(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as,   prose composition. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain;   dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the   Mass. See Sequence. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) Hence, language which evinces little imagination or   animation; dull and commonplace discourse. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing;   language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished   from verse, or metrical composition. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. i.) To write prose. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. t.) To write in prose. 
                        
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            (v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.