Definitions
1.nounThe act of preparing or getting ready.
2.nounThe state of being prepared; readiness.
3.nounThat which is prepared.
4.nounThe day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
5.nounDevotional exercises introducing an office.
6.nounThe previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.