praying

A service of prayer.

a. & n. from pray, v.

a mantis, especially Mantis religiosa. See Mantis.

a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.

Of or pertaining to prayer.

An act of saying a prayer.

Present participle of pray.