5. Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; — opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
6. Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper.
7. (Her.)
Defn: Represented in its natural color; — said of any object used as a charge. In proper, individually; privately. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. — Proper flower or corolla (Bot.), one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. — Proper fraction (Arith.) a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator. — Proper nectary (Bot.), a nectary separate from the petals and other parts of the flower. — Proper noun (Gram.), a name belonging to an individual, by which it is distinguished from others of the same class; — opposed to Ant: common noun; as, John, Boston, America. — Proper perianth or involucre (Bot.), that which incloses only a single flower. — Proper receptacle (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification.
PROPER
Prop"er, adv.
Defn: Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
[Colloq & Vulgar]
PROPERATE Prop"er*ate, v. t. & i. Etym: [L. properatus, p. p. of properare to hasten.]
Defn: To hasten, or press forward. [Obs.]
PROPERATION
Prop`er*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. properatio.]
Defn: The act of hastening; haste. [Obs.] T. Adams.