Food (connected with prod, and perhaps prov [ender]) Burke says, “You are the lion, and I have been endeavouring to prog [procure food] for you ” “So saying, with a smile she left the rogue To weave more lines of death, and plan for prog ” Dr Wolcot: Spider and Fly Progn'e or Prokne The swallow (See Nightingale ) “As Progne or as Philomela mourns That finds the nest by cruel hands dispoiled; So Bradamant laments her absent knight ” Orlando Furioso, book xxiii Progress To report progress, in parliamentary language, is to conclude for the night the business of a bill, and defer the consideration of all subsequent items thereof till the day nominated by the chief Minister of the Crown