(grammar) The historical present tense.

(grammar) The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written. / (grammar) The present tense as used when writing a fictional narrative.

plural of Christmas present

(grammar) The historical present tense.

(military) A position of salute in the manual of arms in which the gun is held in both hands vertically in front of the body, with the muzzle upward and the trigger side forward.

(military) To adopt such a position.

plural of presentment of Englishry

(law, historical) successful proof or act of proving by the relatives of the deceased that one who had died suddenly was English, in order to avoid the fine levied (under the Norman kings) upon the hundred (an administrative subdivision) or township for the murder of a Norman

Present everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.

A present a father gives to the mother to mark the occasion of her giving birth to their child.