Puberal
Pu´ber•al, a. [From L. puber, pubes, grown up, adult.] Of or pertaining to puberty.

Puberty
Pu´ber•ty, n. [L. pubertas, fr. puber, pubes, adult: cf. F. puberte.]
1. The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
2. (Bot.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.

Puberulent
Pu•ber´u•lent, a. [See Pubis.] (Bot.) Very minutely downy.

Pubescence
Pu•bes´cence, n. [Cf. F. pubescence.]
1. The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty. Sir T. Browne.
2. A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also the state of being so covered.

Pubescency
Pu•bes´cen•cy, n. Pubescence.

Pubescent
Pu•bes´cent, a. [L. pubescens, -entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent.]
1. Arrived at puberty.
"That … the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth." Sir T. Browne.
2. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.

Pubic
Pu´bic, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes. (b) Of or pertaining to the pubis.

Public school. (a) In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this class. (b) In the United States, a free primary, grammar, or high school maintained by the local government. { Public-service corporation sometimes Quasi-public corporation }. A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

Publican
Pub´li•can, n. [L. publicanus: cf. F. publicain. See Public.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.
"As Jesus at meat … many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples." Matt. 1x. 10.
"How like a fawning publican he looks!" Shak.
2. The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.

Publicist
Pub´li•cist, n. [Cf. F. publiciste.] A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.
"The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians." Macaulay.

Publicity
Pub•lic´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. publicite.] The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.

Publicity pamphlet. A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed law and arguments for and against it by those favoring and opposing it, respectively.

Publicly
Pub´lic•ly, adv.
1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.
2. In the name of the community. Addison.

Public-minded
Pub´lic-mind•ed, a. Public- spirited. — Pub´lic-mind•ed•ness, n.

Publicness
Pub´lic•ness, n.
1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as the publicness of a sale.
2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as the publicness of property. Boyle.

Public-spirited
Pub´lic-spir•it•ed, a.
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as public- spirited men.
2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. — Pub´lic-spir•it•ed•ly, adv. — Pub´lic-spir•it•ed•ness, n.

Publish
Pub´lish, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Published p. pr. & vb. n. Publishing.] [F. publier, L. publicare, publicatum. See Public, and -ish.]
1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
"Published was the bounty of her name." Chaucer.
"The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator’s power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand." Addison.
2. To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as to publish banns of marriage.
3. To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.
4. To utter, or put into circulation; as to publish counterfeit paper. [U.S.] To publish a will (Law), to acknowledge it before the witnesses as the testator’s last will and testament.
Syn. — To announce; proclaim; advertise; declare; promulgate; disclose; divulge; reveal. See Announce.

Publisher
Pub´lish•er, n. One who publishes; as a publisher of a book or magazine.
"For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense." Shak.

Publishment
Pub´lish•ment, n.
1. The act or process of making publicly known; publication.
2. A public notice of intended marriage, required by the laws of some States. [U.S.]

Puccoon
Puc•coon´, n. [From the American Indian name.] (Bot.) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum ( L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also the pigment itself.

Puce, a. [F., fr. puce a flea, L. pulex, pulicis.] Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

Pucel
Pu´cel, n. See Pucelle. [Obs.]

Pucelle
Pu•celle´, n. [F., fr. LL. pulicella, fr. L. pullus a young animal. See Pullet.] A maid; a virgin. [Written also pucel.] [Obs.]
"Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan." B. Jonson.La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.

Puck, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. puki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. Poker a bugbear, Pug.]
1. (Mediaeval Myth.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" — called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak.
"He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall." Drayton.
2. (Zoöl.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]

Puck, n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.

Pucka
Puck´a, a. [Written also pukka.] [Hind. pakka cooked, ripe, solid.] Good of its kind; — variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar. [India]
"It’s pukka famine, by the looks of it." Kipling. { Pud"ding fish, Pudding wife }. [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.] (Zoöl.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish ( Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.

Puckball
Puck´ball, n. [ Puck + ball.] A puffball.

Pucker
Puck´er, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Puckered p. pr. & vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.] To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; — often with up; as to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.

Pucker
Puck´er, n.
1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

Puckerer
Puck´er•er, n. One who, or that which, puckers.

Puckery
Puck´er•y, a.
1. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as a puckery taste. Lowell.
2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.

Puckfist
Puck´fist, n. A puffball.

Puckish
Puck´ish, a. [From Puck.] Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. "Puckish freaks." J. R. Green.

Puddening
Pud´den•ing, n. [Probably fr. pudden, for pudding, in allusion to its softness.] (Naut.) (a) A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. (b) A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.

Pudder
Pud´der, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puddered p. pr. & vb. n. Puddering.] [Cf. Pother.] To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle.
"Puddering in the designs or doings of others." Barrow.
"Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs." Holland.

Pudder
Pud´der, v. t. To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as to pudder a man. Locke.

Pudder
Pud´der, n. A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle. "All in a pudder." Milton.

Pudding
Pud´ding, n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L. botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan. podding, pudding, LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten, also E. pod, pout, v.]
1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
"And solid pudding against empty praise." Pope.
2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.
3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. Shak.
4. Any food or victuals.
"Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue." Prior.
5. (Naut.) Same as Puddening. Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal ( Mentha Pulegium), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. Dr. Prior. — Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. Taylor (1630). — Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia. — Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. Swift. — Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n. , 2. — Pudding time. (a) The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. [Obs.] Johnson. (b) The nick of time; critical time. [Obs.]
"Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid." Hudibras.

Puddle
Pud´dle, n. [OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool.]
1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser.
2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.

Puddle
Pud´dle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Puddled p. pr. & vb. n. Puddling ]
1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
"Some unhatched practice … Hath puddled his clear spirit." Shak.
2. (a) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water. (b) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
3. To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. Ure. Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.

Puddle
Pud´dle, v. i. To make a dirty stir. [Obs.] R. Junius.

Puddle-ball
Pud´dle-ball, n. The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

Puddle-bar
Pud´dle-bar´, n. An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

Puddler
Pud´dler, n. One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

Puddling
Pud´dling, n.
1. (Hydraul. Engin.) (a) The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material. (b) Puddle. See Puddle, n. , 2.
2. (Metal.) The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling.

Puddock
Pud´dock, n. [For paddock, or parrock, a park.] A small inclosure. [Written also purrock.] [Prov. Eng.]

Pudency
Pu´den•cy, n. [L. pudens, p. pr. of pudere to be ashamed.] Modesty; shamefacedness. "A pudency so rosy." Shak.

Pudenda
Pu•den´da, n. pl. [L., from pudendus that of which one ought to be ashamed, fr. pudere to be ashamed.] (Anat.) The external organs of generation.

Pudendal
Pu•den´dal, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum.

Pudendum
Pu•den´dum, n. [NL. See Pudenda.] (Anat.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.

Pudic
Pu´dic, a. [L. pudicus modest, fr. pudere to be ashamed: cf. F. pudique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.

Pudical
Pu´dic•al, a. (Anat.) Pudic.

Pudicity
Pu•dic´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. pudicite, L. pudicitia.] Modesty; chastity. Howell.

Pudu
Pu´du, n. (Zoöl.) A very small deer ( Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long.

Pue, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Pued p. pr. & vb. n. Puing.] To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds. Halliwell.

Puer
Pu´er, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning. Simmonds.

Puerco
Pu•er´co, n. [Sp.] A hog. Puerco beds (Geol.), a name given to certain strata belonging to the earliest Eocene. They are developed in Northwestern New Mexico, along the Rio Puerco, and are characterized by their mammalian remains.

Puerile
Pu´er•ile, a. [L. puerilis, fr. puer a child, a boy: cf. F. pueril.] Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.
"The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents." De Quincey.
Syn. — Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak. See Youthful.

Puerileness
Pu´er•ile•ness, n. The quality of being puerile; puerility.

Puerility
Pu•er•il´i•ty, n. ; pl. Puerilities (#). [L. puerilitas: cf. F. puerilite.]
1. The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness. Sir T. Browne.
2. That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.

Puerperal
Pu•er´per•al, a. [L. puerpera a lying-in woman; puer child + parere to bear: cf. F. puerperal.] Of or pertaining to childbirth; as a puerperal fever.

Puerperous
Pu•er´per•ous, a. Bearing children. [R.]

Puet
Pu´et, n. (Zoöl.) The pewit.

Puff (puf), n. [Akin to G. & Sw. puff a blow, Dan. puf, D. pof; of imitative origin. Cf. Buffet.]
1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff. " To every puff of wind a slave." Flatman.
2. Anything light and filled with air. Specifically: (a) A puffball. (b) a kind of light pastry. (c) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
3. An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal. Puff adder. (Zoöl.) (a) Any South African viper belonging to Clotho and allied genera. They are exceedingly venomous, and have the power of greatly distending their bodies when irritated. The common puff adder ( Vipera, or Clotho arietans) is the largest species, becoming over four feet long. The plumed puff adder ( C. cornuta) has a plumelike appendage over each eye. (b) A North American harmless snake ( Heterodon platyrrhinos) which has the power of puffing up its body. Called also hog-nose snake, flathead, spreading adder, and blowing adder. — Puff bird (Zoöl.), any bird of the genus Bucco, or family Bucconidae. They are small birds, usually with dull- colored and loose plumage, and have twelve tail feathers. See Barbet (b).

Puff, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puffed (puft); p. pr. & vb. n. Puffing.] [Akin to G. puffen to pop, buffet, puff, D. poffen to pop, puffen to blow, Sw. puffa to push, to cuff, Dan. puffe to pop, thump. See Puff, n. ]
1. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; — with a. .
"It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation." South.
3. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
"The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase." L’ Estrange.
4. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. Boyle.
5. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
"Then came brave Glory puffing by." Herbert.

Puff, v. t.
1. To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
"The clearing north will puff the clouds away." Dryden.
2. To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
"I puff the prostitute away." Dryden.
3. To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; — often with up; as a bladder puffed with air.
"The sea puffed up with winds." Shak.
4. To inflate with pride, flattery, self- esteem, or the like; — often with up.
"Puffed up with military success." Jowett (Thucyd. )
5. To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly. " Puffed with wonderful skill." Macaulay.

Puff, a. Puffed up; vain. [R.] Fanshawe.

Puffball
Puff´ball, n. (Bot.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus ( Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; — called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.

Puffer
Puff´er, n.
1. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.
2. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. Bouvier.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; — called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. (b) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
4. (Dyeing) A kier.

Puffery
Puff´er•y, n. The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.

Puffin
Puf´fin (puf"fin), n. [Akin to puff.]
1. (Zoöl.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; — called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot. The name is also applied to other related species, as the horned puffin ( F. corniculata), the tufted puffin ( Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill. Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx.
2. (Bot.) The puffball.
3. A sort of apple. [Obs.] Rider’s Dict. (1640).

Puffing
Puff´ing, a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.Puffing adder. (Zoöl.) Same as Puff adder (b), under Puff. — Puffing pig (Zoöl.), the common porpoise.

Puff-leg
Puff´-leg, n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.

Puff-legged
Puff´-legged, a. (Zoöl.) Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.

Puffy
Puff´y, a.
1. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as a puffy tumor. " A very stout, puffy man." Thackeray.
2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as a puffy style.

Pug, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pugged p. pr. & vb. n. Pugging.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.]
1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
2. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.

Pug, n.
1. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
2. A pug mill. Pug mill, a kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.

Pug, n. [Corrupted fr. puck. See Puck.]
1. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
2. A name for a monkey. [Colloq.] Addison.
3. A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.
4. An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] Lyly.
5. pl. Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] Holland.
6. A prostitute. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
7. (Zoöl.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
8. (Zoöl.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

Pug, n. [Hind. pag foot.] A footprint; a track; as of a boar. [India]

Pug nose
Pug" nose A short, thick nose; a snubnose. — Pug´-nosed• (#), a. Pug-nose eel (Zoöl.), a deep- water marine eel ( Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.

Pug-faced
Pug´-faced, a. Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.

Puggaree
Pug´ga•ree, n. Same as Puggry. { Pug´gry, Pug´gree }, n. [Written also puggaree, puggeree, etc.] [Hind. pagri turban.] A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun. [India] Yule.
"A blue-gray felt hat with a gold puggaree." Kipling.

Puggered
Pug´gered, a. Puckered. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Pugging
Pug´ging, n. [See Pug, v. t.]
1. The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.
2. (Arch.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; — in the United States usually called deafening.

Pugging
Pug´ging, a. Thieving. [Obs.] Shak.

Pugh, interj. Pshaw! pish! — a word used in contempt or disdain.

Pugil
Pu´gil, n. [L. pugillus, pugillum, a handful, akin to pugnus the fist.] As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pugilism
Pu´gil•ism, n. [L. pugil a pugilist, boxer, akin to pugnus the fist. Cf. Pugnacious, Fist.] The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.

Pugilistic
Pu•gil•is´tic, a. Of or pertaining to pugillism.

Pugnacious
Pug•na´cious, a. [L. pugnax, -acis, fr. pugnare to fight. Cf. Pugilism, Fist.] Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. —Pug•na´cious•ly, adv. — Pug•na´cious•ness, n.

Puh, interj. The same as Pugh.

Puisny
Puis´ny, a. Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled. [R.]
"A puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side." Shak.

Puissance
Pu´is•sance, n. [F., fr. puissant. See Puissant, and cf. Potency, Potance, Potence.] Power; strength; might; force; potency. " Youths of puissance." Tennyson.
"The power and puissance of the king." Shak. In Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, puissance and puissant are usually dissyllables.

Puissantness
Pu´is•sant•ness, n. The state or quality of being puissant; puissance; power.

Puit, n. [F. puits, from L. puteus well.] A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring. [Obs.]
"The puits flowing from the fountain of life." Jer. Taylor.

Puke, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puked p. pr. & vb. n. Puking.] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.] To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
"The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms." Shak.

Puke, v. t. To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.

Puke, n. A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.

Puke, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Of a color supposed to be between black and russet. Shak. This color has by some been regarded as the same with puce; but Nares questions the identity.

Puker
Puk´er, n.
1. One who pukes, vomits.
2. That which causes vomiting. Garth .

Pukka
Puk´ka, a. Same as Pucka. [India]

Pule, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puled p. pr. & vb. n. Puling.] [F. piauler; cf. L. pipilare, pipire, to peep, pip, chirp, and E. peep to chirp.]
1. To cry like a chicken. Bacon.
2. To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.
"It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule." Barrow.

Pulex
Pu´lex, n. [L., a flea.] (Zoöl.) A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.

Puling
Pul´ing, n. A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
"Leave this faint puling and lament as I do." Shak.

Puling
Pul´ing, a. Whimpering; whining; childish.

Pulingly
Pul´ing•ly, adv. With whining or complaint.

Pulkha
Pulk´ha, n. A Laplander’s traveling sledge. See Sledge.

Pullail
Pul´lail, n. [F. poulaille.] Poultry. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Pullback
Pull´back, n.
1. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
2. (Arch) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.

Pulldevil
Pull´dev•il, n. A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish.

Pulled, a. Plucked; pilled; moulting. " A pulled hen." Chaucer.

Pullen
Pul´len, n. [Cf. L. pullinus belonging to young animals. See Pullet.] Poultry. [Obs.]

Pullet
Pul´let, n. [OE. polete, OF. polete, F. poulette, dim. of poule a hen, fr. L. pullus a young animal, a young fowl. See Foal, and cf. Poult, Poultry, Pool stake.] A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. [Obs.] Shak.

Pullicate
Pul´li•cate, n. A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

Pullman car
Pull"man car [Named after Mr. Pullman, who introduced them.] A kind of sleeping car; also a palace car; — often shortened to Pullman.

Pullulate
Pul´lu•late, v. i. [L. pullulatus, p. p. of pullulare to sprout, from pullulus a young animal, a sprout, dim. of pullus. See pullet.] To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton.

Pullus
Pul´lus, n. ; pl. Pulli (#). [L.] (Zoöl.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Pulmobranchiata
Pul•mo•bran•chi•a´ta, n. pl. [NL.], Pul•mo•bran´chi•ate. a. & n. (Zoöl.) Same as Pulmonibranchiata - ate.

Pulmogasteropoda
Pul•mo•gas•te•rop´o•da, n. pl. [NL. & E. Gasteropoda.] (Zoöl.) Same as Pulmonata.

Pulmometer
Pul•mom´e•ter, n. [L. pulmo a lung + -meter.] (Physiol.) A spirometer.

Pulmometry
Pul•mom´e•try, n. [L. pulmo a lung + -metry.] The determination of the capacity of the lungs.

Pulmonarian
Pul´mo•na´ri•an, n. (Zoöl.) Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively.

Pulmonary
Pul´mo•na•ry, a. [L. pulmonarius, from pulmo, -onis, a lung; of uncertain origin, perh. named from its lightness, and akin to E. float: cf. F. pulmonaire. Cf. Pneumonia.] Of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; pulmonic. Pulmonary artery. See the Note under Artery.

Pulmonary
Pul´mo•na•ry, n. [Cf. F. pulmonaire. See Pulmonary, a. ] (Bot.) Lungwort. Ainsworth.

Pulmonate
Pul´mo•nate, a. (Zoöl.) (a) Having breathing organs that act as lungs. (b) Pertaining to the Pulmonata. — n. One of the Pulmonata.

Pulmonated
Pul´mo•na•ted, a. same as Pulmonate (a).

Pulmonifera
Pul•mo•nif´e•ra, n. pl. [NL. See Pulmoniferous.] (Zoöl.) Same as Pulmonata.

Pulmotor
Pul´mo•tor, n. [L. pulmo lung + E. motor.] An apparatus for producing artificial respiration by pumping oxygen or air or a mixture of the two into and out of the lungs, as of a person who has been asphyxiated by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, or the like, or of one who has been stunned by an electrical shock.

Pulp, n. [L. pulpa flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. F. pulpe.] A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter. Specifically: (a) (Anat.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth. (b) (Bot.) The soft, succulent part of fruit; as the pulp of a grape. (c) The exterior part of a coffee berry. B. Edwards. (d) The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.

Pulp, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pulped p. pr. & vb. n. Pulping.]
1. To reduce to pulp.
2. To deprive of the pulp, or integument.
"The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man will pulp a bushel in a minute." B. Edwards.

Pulpiness
Pulp´i•ness, n. the quality or state of being pulpy.

Pulpit
Pul´pit, n. [L. pulpitum: cf. OF. pulpite, F. pulpitre.]
1. An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
"I stand like a clerk in my pulpit." Chaucer.
2. The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also preaching.
"I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue’s cause." Cowper.
3. A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

Pulpit
Pul´pit, a. Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

Pulpited
Pul´pit•ed, a. Placed in a pulpit. [R.]
"Sit … at the feet of a pulpited divine." Milton.

Pulpiteer
Pul•pit•eer´, n. One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; — so called in contempt. Howell.
"We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer." Prof. Wilson.

Pulpiter
Pul´pit•er, n. A preacher. [Obs.]

Pulpitical
Pul•pit´ic•al, a. Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit. [R.] — Pul•pit´ic•al•ly, adv. [R.] Chesterfield.

Pulpitish
Pul´pit•ish, a. Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers.

Pulpitry
Pul´pit•ry, n. The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. [R. & Obs.] " Mere pulpitry." Milton.

Pulpous
Pulp´ous, a. [L. pulposus: cf. F. pulpeux. See Pulp.] Containing pulp; pulpy. " Pulpous fruit." J. Philips. — Pulp´ous•ness, n.

Pulsatilla
Pul•sa•til´la, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in Anemone. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.

Pulsation
Pul•sa´tion, n. [L. pulsatio a beating or striking: cf. F. pulsation.]
1. (Physiol.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
2. A single beat or throb of a series.
3. A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
4. (Law) Any touching of another’s body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
"By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited." Blackstone.

Pulsative
Pul´sa•tive, a. [Cf. F. pulsatif.] Beating; throbbing.

Pulsator
Pul•sa´tor, n. [L.]
1. A beater; a striker.
2. (Mech.) That which beats or throbs in working.

Pulsatory
Pul´sa•to•ry, a. [Cf. F. pulsatoire.] Capable of pulsating; throbbing. Sir H. Wotton. .

Pulse, n. [OE. puls, L. puls, pultis, a thick pap or pottage made of meal, pulse, etc. See Poultice, and cf. Pousse.] Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
"If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse." Milton.

Pulse, n. [OE. pous, OF. pous, F. pouls, fr. L. pulsus (sc. venarum), the beating of the pulse, the pulse, from pellere, pulsum, to beat, strike; cf. Gr. to swing, shake, to shake. Cf. Appeal, Compel, Impel, Push.]
1. (Physiol.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries. In an artery the pulse is due to the expansion and contraction of the elastic walls of the artery by the action of the heart upon the column of blood in the arterial system. On the commencement of the diastole of the ventricle, the semilunar valves are closed, and the aorta recoils by its elasticity so as to force part of its contents into the vessels farther onwards. These, in turn, as they already contain a certain quantity of blood, expand, recover by an elastic recoil, and transmit the movement with diminished intensity. Thus a series of movements, gradually diminishing in intensity, pass along the arterial system (see the Note under Heart). For the sake of convenience, the radial artery at the wrist is generally chosen to detect the precise character of the pulse. The pulse rate varies with age, position, sex, stature, physical and psychical influences, etc.
2. Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.
"The measured pulse of racing oars." Tennyson.
"When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke." Burke. Pulse glass, an instrument consisting to a glass tube with terminal bulbs, and containing ether or alcohol, which the heat of the hand causes to boil; — so called from the pulsating motion of the liquid when thus warmed. — Pulse wave (Physiol.), the wave of increased pressure started by the ventricular systole, radiating from the semilunar valves over the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches.
"the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second." H. N. Martin. — To feel one’s pulse. (a) To ascertain, by the sense of feeling, the condition of the arterial pulse. (b) Hence, to sound one’s opinion; to try to discover one’s mind.

Pulse, v. i. To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb. Ray.

Pulse, v. t. [See Pulsate, Pulse a beating.] To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate. [R.]

Pulselessness
Pulse´less•ness, n. The state of being pulseless.

Pulsific
Pul•sif´ic, a. [ Pulse + L. facere to make.] Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.

Pulsimeter
Pul•sim´e•ter, n. [ Pulse + -meter.] (Physiol.) A sphygmograph.

Pulsion
Pul´sion, n. [L. pulsio, fr. pellere, pulsum, to drive: cf. F. pulsion.] The act of driving forward; propulsion; — opposed to suction or traction. [R.]

Pulsive
Pul´sive, a. Tending to compel; compulsory. [R.] "The pulsive strain of conscience." Marston.

Pulsometer
Pul•som´e•ter, n. [ Pulse + -meter.]
1. A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; — also called vacuum pump.
2. A pulsimeter.

Pult, v. t. To put. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Pultaceous
Pul•ta´ceous, a. [Cf. F. pultace. See 1st Pulse.] Macerated; softened; nearly fluid. { Pul´tesse, Pul´tise } n. Poultry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pulverable
Pul´ver•a•ble, a. Capable of being reduced to fine powder. Boyle.

Pulveraceous
Pul•ver•a´ceous, a. (Bot.) Having a finely powdered surface; pulverulent.

Pulverate
Pul´ver•ate, v. t. [L. pulveratus, p. p. of pulverare to pulverize. See Pulverize.] To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize. [R.]

Pulverizable
Pul´ver•i•za•ble, a. Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable. Barton.

Pulverization
Pul•ver•i•za´tion, n. [Cf. F. pulverisation.] The action of reducing to dust or powder.

Pulverize
Pul´ver•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pulverized p. pr. & vb. n. Pulverizing ] [F. pulveriser, L. pulverizare, fr. pulvis dust, powder. See Powder.] To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.

Pulverize
Pul´ver•ize, v. i. To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as the stone pulverizes easily.

Pulverizer
Pul´ver•i•zer, n. One who, or that which, pulverizes.

Pulverous
Pul´ver•ous, a. [Cf. L. pulvereus, from pulvis, pulveris, dust, powder.] Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.

Pulverulence
Pul•ver´u•lence, n. The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.

Pulverulent
Pul•ver´u•lent, a. [L. pulverulentus, fr. pulvis, pulveris, dust, powder: cf. F. pulverulent.] Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.

Pulvil
Pul´vil, n. [It. polviglio, fr. L. pulvis, pulveris, dust, powder: cf. Sp. polvillo.] A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio. [Written also pulville.] [Obs.] Gay.

Pulvil
Pul´vil, v. t. To apply pulvil to. [Obs.] Congreve. { Pul•vil´li•o, Pul•vil´lo } n. [See Pulvil.] A kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much used, — often in little bags.
"Smells of incense, ambergris, and pulvillios." Addison.

Pulvinar
Pul•vi´nar, n. [L., a cushion.] (Anat.) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain. { Pul´vi•nate, Pul´vi•na•ted } a. [L. pulvinatus, fr. pulvinus a cushion, an elevation.]
1. (Arch.) Curved convexly or swelled; as a pulvinated frieze. Brande & C.
2. (Zoöl.) Having the form of a cushion.

Pulvinic
Pul•vin´ic, a. [From Vulpinic, by transposition of the letters.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.

Pume, n. (Zoöl.) A stint.

Pumicate
Pu´mi•cate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pumicated p. pr. & vb. n. Pumicating.] [L. pumicatus, p. p. of pumicare to pumicate, fr. pumex. See Pumice.] To make smooth with pumice. [R.]

Pumiceous
Pu•mi•ceous, a. [L. pumiceus.] Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Pumiciform
Pu•mic´i•form, a. [ Pumice + -form.] Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.

Pummace
Pum´mace, n. Same as Pomace.

Pumpage
Pump´age, n. That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
"The pumpage last year amounted to … gallons." Sci. Amer.

Pumper
Pump´er, n. One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping. Boyle.

Pumpernickel
Pump´er•nick•el, n. [G.] A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.

Pumpet
Pum´pet, n. A pompet. Pumpet ball (Print.), a ball for inking types; a pompet.

Pumping
Pump´ing, a. & n. from pump. Pumping engine, a steam engine and pump combined for raising water. See Steam engine.

Pun, v. t. [See Pound to beat.] To pound. [Obs.]
"He would pun thee into shivers with his fist." Shak.

Pun, n. [Cf. Pun to pound, Pound to beat.] A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation. Addison.
"A better put on this word was made on the Beggar’s Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay." Walpole.

Pun, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Punned p. pr. & vb. n. Punning.] To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble. Dryden.

Pun, v. t. To persuade or affect by a pun. Addison.

Puna
Pu´na, n. [Sp., of Peruv. origin.] A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.

Punch, n. [Hind. panch five, Skr. pa can. So called because composed of five ingredients, viz., sugar, arrack, spice, water, and lemon juice. See Five.] A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; — specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch made with spirit, milk, sugar, spice, etc. — Punch bowl, a large bowl in which punch is made, or from which it is served. — Roman punch, a punch frozen and served as an ice.

Punch, n. [Abbrev, fr. punchinello.] The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show. Punch and Judy, a puppet show in which a comical little hunchbacked Punch, with a large nose, engages in altercation with his wife Judy.

Punch, n. [Prov. E. Cf. Punchy.]
1. A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
"I … did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short." Pepys.
2. One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as the Suffolk punch.

Punch, v. t. [OE. punchen, perhaps the same word as E. punish: or cf. E. bunch.] To thrust against; to poke; as to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.

Punch, n. A thrust or blow. [Colloq.]

Punch, n. [Abbrev. fr. puncheon.]
1. A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
2. (Pile Driving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
3. A prop, as for the roof of a mine. Bell punch. See under Bell. — Belt punch (Mach.), a punch, or punch pliers, for making holes for lacings in the ends of driving belts. — Punch press. See Punching machine, under Punch, v. i. — Punch pliers, pliers having a tubular, sharp- edged steel punch attached to one of the jaws, for perforating leather, paper, and the like.

Punch, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Punched p. pr. & vb. n. Punching.] [From Punch, n. , a tool; cf. F. poinçonner.] To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as to punch a hole; to punch ticket. Punching machine, or Punching press, a machine tool for punching holes in metal or other material; — called also punch press.

Punchin
Pun´chin, n. See Puncheon.

Puncticular
Punc•tic´u•lar, a. Comprised in, or like, a point; exact. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. Browne.

Punctiform
Punc´ti•form, a. [L. punctum point + -form.] Having the form of a point.

Punctilio
Punc•til´io (punk•til"yo), n. ; pl. Punctilios (- yoz). [It. puntiglio, or Sp. puntillo, dim. fr. L. punctum point. See Point, n. ] A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as the punctilios of a public ceremony.
"They will not part with the least punctilio in their opinions and practices." Fuller.

Punction
Punc´tion, n. [L. punctio, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick: cf. F. ponction. Cf. Puncheon.] A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.

Puncto
Punc´to, n. [See Punto.]
1. A nice point of form or ceremony. Bacon.
2. A term applied to the point in fencing. Farrow.

Punctuality
Punc•tu•al´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. ponctualite.] The quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.

Punctually
Punc´tu•al•ly, adv. In a punctual manner; promptly; exactly.

Punctualness
Punc´tu•al•ness, n. Punctuality; exactness.

Punctuate
Punc´tu•ate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Punctuated p. pr. & vb. n. Punctuating.] [Cf. F. ponctuer. See Punctual.] To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.

Punctuative
Punc´tu•a•tive, a. Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation.
"The punctuative intonation of feeble cadence." Rush.

Punctuator
Punc´tu•a•tor, n. One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.

Punctuist
Punc´tu•ist, n. A punctator. { Punc´tu•late, Punc´tu•la•ted } a. [L. punctulum, dim. of punctum point.] Marked with small spots.
"The studs have their surface punctulated, as if set all over with other studs infinitely lesser." Woodward.

Punctum
Punc´tum, n. [L., a point.] A point. Punctum caecum. [L., blind point.] (Anat.) Same as Blind spot, under Blind. — Punctum proximum, near point. See under Point. — Punctum remotum, far point. See under Point. — Punctum vegetationis [L., point of vegetation] (Bot.), the terminal cell of a stem, or of a leaf bud, from which new growth originates.

Pundit
Pun´dit, n. [Hind. pandit, Skr. pandita a learned man.] A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official. [Written also pandit.] [India]

Pundle
Pun´dle, n. [Cf. Bundle.] A short and fat woman; a squab. [Obs.]

Pung, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners. [U.S.]
"Sledges or pungs, coarsely framed of split saplings, and surmounted with a large crockery crate." Judd.
"They did not take out the pungs to- day." E. E. Hale.

Pungence
Pun´gence, n. [See Pungent.] Pungency.

Pungent
Pun´gent, a. [L. pungens, -entis, p. pr. of pungere, punctum, to prick. Cf. Compunction, Expunge, Poignant, Point, n. , Puncheon, Punctilio, Punt, v. t.]
1. Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as a pungent spice.
"Pungent radish biting infant’s tongue." Shenstone.
"The pungent grains of titillating dust." Pope.
2. Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.
"With pungent pains on every side." Swift.
"His pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation." J. R. Green.
3. (Bot.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.
Syn. — Acrid; piercing; sharp; penetrating; acute; keen; acrimonious; biting; stinging.

Pungled
Pun´gled, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Shriveled or shrunken; — said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips ( Thrips cerealium).

Pungy
Pung´y, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.

Punic
Pu´nic, a. [L. Punicus pertaining to Carthage, or its inhabitants, fr. Poeni the Carthaginians.]
1. Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians.
2. Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as Punic faith.
"Yes, yes, his faith attesting nations own; ’T is Punic all, and to a proverb known." H. Brooke.

Punice
Pu´nice, n. (Zoöl.) See Punese. [Obs. or R.]

Punice
Pu´nice, v. t. To punish. [Obs.] Chaucer. { Pu•ni´ceous, Pu•ni´cial } a. [L. puniceus, fr. Punicus Punic.] Of a bright red or purple color. [R.]

Puniness
Pu´ni•ness, n. The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

Punish
Pun´ish, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Punished p. pr. & vb. n. Punishing.] [OE. punischen, F. punir, from L. punire, punitum, akin to poena punishment, penalty. See Pain, and -ish.]
1. To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender’s amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience.
"A greater power Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned." Milton.
2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss; as to punish murder or treason with death.
3. To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low]
Syn. — To chastise; castigate; scourge; whip; lash; correct; discipline. See Chasten.

Punish
Pun´ish, v. t. To deal with roughly or harshly; — chiefly used with regard to a contest; as our troops punished the enemy. [Colloq. or Slang]

Punishable
Pun´ish•a•ble, a. [Cf. F. punissable.] Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; — said of person or offenses.
"That time was when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor." Milton. — Pun´ish•a•ble•ness, n.

Punisher
Pun´ish•er, n. One who inflicts punishment.

Punishment
Pun´ish•ment, n.
1. The act of punishing.
2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person because of a crime or offense.
"I never gave them condign punishment." Shak.
"The rewards and punishments of another life." Locke.
3. (Law) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

Punishment
Pun´ish•ment, n. Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment. [Colloq. or Slang]

Punition
Pu•ni´tion, n. [L. punitio: cf. F. punition. See Punish.] Punishment. [R.] Mir. for Mag.

Punitory
Pu´ni•to•ry, a. Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.
"God … may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory." A. Tucker.

Punk, n. [Cf. Spunk.]
1. Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.
2. A fungus ( Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.
3. An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.
4. A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obsoles.] Shak.

Punkie
Punk´ie, n. [Orig. unknown.] A minute biting fly of the genus Ceratopogon or allied genus of the family Chironomidae, found in swarms in various densely wooded or mountaneous regions. [U. S.]

Punkin
Pun´kin, n. A pumpkin. [Colloq. U. S.]

Punkling
Punk´ling, n. A young strumpet. [Obs.]

Punner
Pun´ner, n. A punster. Beau. & Fl.

Punnet
Pun´net, n. [Cf. Ir. buinne a shoot, branch.] A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

Punnology
Pun•nol´o•gy, n. [ Pun + - logy.] The art or practice of punning; paronomasia. [R.] Pope.

Punster
Pun´ster, n. One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit.

Punt, v. i. [F. ponter, or It. puntare, fr. L. punctum point. See Point.] To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
"She heard … of his punting at gaming tables." Thackeray.

Punt, n. Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.

Punt, n. [AS., fr. L. ponto punt, pontoon. See Pontoon.] (Naut.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.

Punt, v. t.
1. To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion. Livingstone.
2. (Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.

Punt, n. (Football) The act of punting the ball.

Punt, v. i.
1. To boat or hunt in a punt.
2. To punt a football.

Puntello
Pun•tel´lo, n. ; pl. - li (#). [It., dim. of punto point.] (Sculpture) One of the points sometimes drilled as guides for cutting away superfluous stone.

Punter
Punt´er, n. [Cf. F. ponte. See Punt, v. t.] One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro. Hoyle.

Punter
Punt´er, n. One who punts a football; also one who propels a punt. { Pun´til, Pun´tel }, n. (Glass Making) See Pontee.

Punter
Punt´er, n. (London Stock Exchange) A scalper.

Punto
Pun´to, n. [It. punto, L. punctum point. See Point.] (Fencing) A point or hit. Punto diritto [It.], a direct stroke or hit. — Punto reverso [It. riverso reverse], a backhanded stroke. Halliwell. "Ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso!" Shak.

Punty
Pun´ty, n. (Glass Making) See Pontee.

Puoy, n. Same as Poy, n. , 3.

Pupate
Pu´pate, v. i. (Zoöl.) To become a pupa.

Pupation
Pu•pa´tion, n. (Zoöl.) the act of becoming a pupa.

Pupe, n. [F.] (Zoöl.) A pupa.

Pupelo
Pu•pe´lo, n. Cider brandy. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

Pupigerous
Pu•pig´er•ous, a. [ Pupa + - gerous.] (Zoöl.) Bearing or containing a pupa; — said of dipterous larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

Pupil
Pu´pil, n. [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar.] (Anat.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

Pupil
Pu´pil, n. [F. pupille, n. masc. & fem., L. pupillus, pupilla, dim. of pupus boy, pupa girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil of the eye.]
1. A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
"Too far in years to be a pupil now." Shak.
"Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils." L’Estrange.
2. A person under a guardian; a ward. Dryden.
3. (Civil Law) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
Syn. — Learner; disciple; tyro. — See Scholar.

Pupillarity
Pu•pil•lar´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. pupillarite. See Pupillary.] (Scots Law) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.

Pupipara
Pu•pip´a•ra, n. pl. [NL. See Pupiparous.] (Zoöl.) A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.

Pupivora
Pu•piv´o•ra, n. pl. [NL. See Pupivorous.] (Zoöl.) A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.

Puplican
Pup´li•can, n. Publican. [Obs.]

Puppet
Pup´pet, n. [OE. popet, OF. poupette; akin to F. poupee a doll, probably from L. puppa, pupa, a girl, doll, puppet. Cf. Poupeton, Pupa, Pupil, Puppy.] [Written also poppet.]
1. A small image in the human form; a doll.
2. A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
"At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance." Pope.
3. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; — so used in contempt. Sir W. Scott.
4. (Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe. Puppet master. Same as Puppetman. — Puppet play, a puppet show. — Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets. — Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by wires. — Puppet valve, a valve in the form of a circular disk, which covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away from the seat while remaining parallel with it, — used in steam engines, pumps, safety valves, etc. Its edge is often beveled, and fits in a conical recess in the seat when the valve is closed. See the valves shown in Illusts. of Plunger pump, and Safety valve, under Plunger, and Safety.

Puppetman
Pup´pet•man, n. A master of a puppet show.

Puppetry
Pup´pet•ry, n. Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.
"Puppetry of the English laws of divorce." Chambers.

Puppy
Pup´py, n. ; pl. Puppies (#). [F. poupee doll, puppet. See Puppet, and cf. Pup, n. ]
1. (Zoöl.) The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.
2. A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.
"I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm." Addison.

Puppy
Pup´py, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puppied p. pr. & vb. n. Puppying.] To bring forth whelps; to pup.

Puppyish
Pup´py•ish, a. Like a puppy.

Puppyism
Pup´py•ism, n. Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. A. Chalmers.

Pur, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Purred p. pr. & vb. n. Purring.] [Of imitative origin; cf. Prov. G. purren.] To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased. [Written also purr.]

Pur, v. t. To signify or express by purring. Gray.

Pur, n. The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure. [Written also purr.]

Purana
Pu•ra´na, n. [Skr. pura, properly. old, ancient, fr. pura formerly.] One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

Puranic
Pu•ran´ic, a. Pertaining to the Puranas.

Purbeck beds
Pur"beck beds [So called from the Isle of Purbeck in England.] (Geol.) The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oölitic group. See the Chart of Geology.

Purblind
Pur´blind, a. [For pure- blind, i. e., wholly blind. See Pure, and cf. Poreblind.]
1. Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight." Shak.
2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as a purblind eye; a purblind mole.
"The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind." Latimer.
"O purblind race of miserable men." Tennyson. — Pur´blind•ly, adv. — Pur´blind•ness, n.

Purchasable
Pur´chas•a•ble, a. Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt.
"Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of things exchanged." Locke.

Purchase
Pur´chase ( 48), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purchased p. pr. & vb. n. Purchasing.] [OE. purchasen, porchacen, OF. porchacier, purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, por, pur, for (L. pro) + chacier to pursue, to chase. See Chase.]
1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer.
"That loves the thing he can not purchase." Spenser.
"Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak.
"His faults … hereditary Rather than purchased." Shak.
2. To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as to purchase land, or a house.
"The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth." Gen. xxv. 10.
3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as to purchase favor with flattery.
"One poor retiring minute … Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends." Shak.
"A world who would not purchase with a bruise?" Milton.
4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.]
"Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses." Shak.
5. (Law) (a) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. Blackstone. (b) To buy for a price.
6. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as to purchase a cannon.

Purchase
Pur´chase, v. i.
1. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one’s self. [Obs.]
"Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage." Ld. Berners.
2. To acquire wealth or property. [Obs.]
"Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast." J. Webster.

Purchase
Pur´chase ( 48), n. [OE. purchds, F. pourchas eager pursuit. See Purchase, v. t.]
1. The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. [Obs.]
"I’ll … get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase." Beau. & Fl.
2. The act of seeking and acquiring property.
3. The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
"It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance." Franklin.
4. That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. Chaucer. B. Jonson.
"We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda." De Foe.
"A beauty-waning and distressed widow … Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye." Shak.
5. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. "The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase." Wheaton.
6. Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.
"A politician, to do great things, looks for a power — what our workmen call a purchase." Burke.
7. (Law) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one’s own act or agreement. Blackstone. Purchase criminal, robbery. [Obs.] Spenser. — Purchase money, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought. Berkeley. — Worth, or At, [so many] years’ purchase, a phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as he bought the estate at a twenty years’ purchase. To say one’s life is not worth a day’s purchase in the same as saying one will not live a day, or is in imminent peril.

Purdah
Pur´dah, n. [Per. parda a curtain.] A curtain or screen; also a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains. McElrath.

Pure, a. [ Compar. Purer superl. Purest.] [OE. pur, F. pur, fr. L. purus; akin to putus pure, clear, putare to clean, trim, prune, set in order, settle, reckon, consider, think, Skr. p to clean, and perh. E. fire. Cf. Putative.]
1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
"The pure fetters on his shins great." Chaucer.
"A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy." I. Watts.
2. Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; — applied to persons. "Keep thyself pure." 1 Tim. v. 22.
"Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience." 1 Tim. i. 5.
3. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; — applied to things and actions. "Pure religion and impartial laws." Tickell. "The pure, fine talk of Rome." Ascham.
"Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records." Macaulay.
4. (Script.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
"Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord." Lev. xxiv. 6.
5. (Phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; — said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." Fuller. — Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene. — Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry. — Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats of the principles of the science, or contradistinction to applied mathematics, which treats of the application of the principles to the investigation of other branches of knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. See Mathematics. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) — Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. Blackstone.
Syn. — Unmixed; clear; simple; real; true; genuine; unadulterated; uncorrupted; unsullied; untarnished; unstained; stainless; clean; fair; unspotted; spotless; incorrupt; chaste; unpolluted; undefiled; immaculate; innocent; guiltless; guileless; holy.

Puree
Pu•ree´, n. [F.] A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

Purely
Pure´ly, adv.
1. In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).
2. Nicely; prettily. [Archaic] Halliwell.

Pureness
Pure´ness, n. The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

Purfile
Pur´file, n. [See Purfle.] A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women’s gowns; — called also bobbinwork. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Purfling
Pur´fling, n. Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.

Purgament
Pur´ga•ment, n. [L. purgamentum offscourings, washings, expiatory sacrifice. See Purge.]
1. That which is excreted; excretion. [Obs.]
2. (Med.) A cathartic; a purgative. [Obs.] Bacon.

Purgatively
Pur´ga•tive•ly, adv. In a purgative manner. { Pur•ga•to´ri•al, Pur•ga•to´ri•an } a. Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory.

Purgatorian
Pur•ga•to´ri•an, n. One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory. Boswell.

Purgatory
Pur´ga•to•ry, a. [L. purgatorius.] Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke.

Purgatory
Pur´ga•to•ry, n. [Cf. F. purgatoire.] A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.

Purge, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purged p. pr. & vb. n. Purging ] [F. purger, L. purgare; purus pure + agere to make, to do. See Pure, and Agent.]
1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." Milton.
2. (Med.) To operate on as or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
5. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as to purge one of guilt or crime.
"When that he hath purged you from sin." Chaucer.
"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean." Ps. li. 7.
6. (Law) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
7. To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; — often followed by away.
"Purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake." Ps. lxxix. 9.
"We ’ll join our cares to purge away Our country’s crimes." Addison.

Purge, v. i.
1. To become pure, as by clarification.
2. To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

Purge, n. [Cf. F. purge. See Purge, v. t.]
1. The act of purging.
"The preparative for the purge of paganism of the kingdom of Northumberland." Fuller.
2. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. Arbuthnot.

Purgery
Pur´ger•y, n. The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

Purging
Pur´ging, a. That purges; cleansing. Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus Linum ( L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; — so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.

Purging
Pur´ging, n. (Med.) The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.

Puri
Pur´i, n. (Chem.) See Euxanthin.

Purificator
Pu´ri•fi•ca•tor, n. One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.

Purificatory
Pu•rif´i•ca•to•ry, a. [L. purificatorius.] Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Purifier
Pu´ri•fi•er, n. One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

Puriform
Pu´ri•form (pu"ri•fôrm), a. [L. pus, puris, pus + -form: cf. F. puriforme.] (Med.) In the form of pus.

Purify
Pu´ri•fy (-fi), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purified p. pr. & vb. n. Purifying ] [F. purifier, L. purificare; purus pure + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Pure, and -fy.]
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.
2. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as to purify the heart.
"And fit them so Purified to receive him pure." Milton. (b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
"And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, … and purified the altar." Lev. viii. 15.
"Purify both yourselves and your captives." Num. xxxi. 19. (c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as to purify a language. Sprat.

Purify
Pu´ri•fy, v. i. To grow or become pure or clear.

Purim
Pu´rim, n. [Heb. pur, pl. purim, a lot.] A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman. Esther ix. 26.

Purism
Pur´ism, n. [Cf. F. purisme.] Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey.
"The English language, however, … had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter." Craik.

Purist
Pur´ist, n. [Cf. F. puriste.]
1. One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
"He [Fox] … purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist." Macaulay.
2. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek. M. Stuart. { Pu•ris´tic, Pu•ris´tic•al } a. Of or pertaining to purists or purism.

Puritan
Pu´ri•tan, n. [From Purity.]
1. (Eccl. Hist.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; — originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England. The Puritans were afterward distinguished as Political Puritans, Doctrinal Puritans, and Puritans in Discipline. Hume.
2. One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; — often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.
"She would make a puritan of the devil." Shak.

Puritan
Pu´ri•tan, a. Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans. { Pu•ri•tan´ic, Pu•ri•tan´ic•al } a.
1. Of or pertaining to the Puritans, or to their doctrines and practice.
2. Precise in observance of legal or religious requirements; strict; overscrupulous; rigid; — often used by way of reproach or contempt.
"Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded." Macaulay.
"He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil." Hawthorne.

Puritanically
Pu•ri•tan´ic•al•ly, adv. In a puritanical manner.

Puritanism
Pu´ri•tan•ism, n. The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.

Puritanize
Pu´ri•tan•ize, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Puritanized p. pr. & vb. n. Puritanizing ] To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conform to the practice of Puritans. Bp. Montagu.

Purl, v. t. [Contr. fr. purfile, purfle. See Purfle.] To decorate with fringe or embroidery. "Nature’s cradle more enchased and purled." B. Jonson.

Purl, n.
1. An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also a pleat or fold, as of a band.
"A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl." Sir P. Sidney.
2. An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance. Purl stitch. Same as Purl, n. , 2.

Purl, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Purled p. pr. & vb. n. Purling.] [Cf. Sw. porla, and E. pur to murmur as a cat.]
1. To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.
"Swift o’er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills." Pope.
2. [Perh. fr. F. perler to pearl, to bead. See Pearl, v. & n.] To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
"thin winding breath which purled up to the sky." Shak.

Purl, n. [See 3d Purl.]
1. A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
"Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles, As though the waves had been of silver curls." Drayton.
2. A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as the purl of a brook.
3. [Perh. from F. perler, v. See Purl to mantle.] Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices. "Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite." Addison. "Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes." Dickens.
4. (Zoöl.) A tern. [Prov. Eng.]

Purloiner
Pur•loin´er, n. One who purloins. Swift.

Purparty
Pur´par•ty, n. [OF. pourpartie; pour for + partie a part; cf. OF. purpart a respective part.] (Law) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. [Written also purpart, and pourparty.]
"I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds." Walpole.

Purple
Pur´ple, n. ; pl. Purples (#). [OE. purpre, pourpre, OF. purpre, porpre, pourpre, F. pourpre, L. purpura purple fish, purple dye, fr. Gr. the purple fish, a shell from the purple dye was obtained, purple dye; cf. dark (said of the sea), purple, to grow dark (said of the sea), to be troubled; perh. akin to L. furere to rage, E. fury: cf. AS. purpure. Cf. Porphyry, Purpure.]
1. A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.
"Arraying with reflected purple and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend." Milton. The ancient words which are translated purple are supposed to have been used for the color we call crimson. In the gradations of color as defined in art, purple is a mixture of red and blue. When red predominates it is called violet, and when blue predominates, hyacinth.
2. Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as to put on the imperial purple.
"Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple, and scarlet." Ex. xxvi. 1.
3. Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth. "He was born in the purple." Gibbon.
4. A cardinalate. See Cardinal.
5. (Zoöl.) Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as the banded purple ( B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.
6. (Zoöl.) Any shell of the genus Purpura.
7. pl. (Med.) See Purpura.
8. pl. A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle. Purple is sometimes used in composition, esp. with participles forming words of obvious signification; as purple- colored, purple-hued, purple-stained, purple- tinged, purple-tinted, and the like. French purple. (Chem.) Same as Cudbear. — Purple of Cassius. See Cassius. — Purple of mollusca (Zoöl.), a coloring matter derived from certain mollusks, which dyes wool, etc., of a purple or crimson color, and is supposed to be the substance of the famous Tyrian dye. It is obtained from Ianthina, and from several species of Purpura, and Murex. — To be born in the purple, to be of princely birth; to be highborn.

Purple
Pur´ple, a.
1. Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as a purple robe.
2. Imperial; regal; — so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
"Hide in the dust thy purple pride." Shelley.
3. Blood-red; bloody.
"May such purple tears be alway shed." Shak.
"I view a field of blood, And Tiber rolling with a purple blood." Dryden. Purple bird (Zoöl.), the European purple gallinule. See under Gallinule. — Purple copper ore. (Min.) See Bornite. — Purple grackle (Zoöl.), the crow blackbird. See under Crow. — Purple martin. See under Martin. — Purple sandpiper. See under Sandpiper. — Purple shell. See Ianthina.

Purple
Pur´ple, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purpled p. pr. & vb. n. Purpling.] To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as hands purpled with blood.
"When morn Purples the east." Milton.
"Reclining soft in blissful bowers, Purpled sweet with springing flowers." Fenton.

Purport
Pur´port, n. [OF. purport; pur, pour, for (L. pro) + porter to bear, carry. See Port demeanor.]
1. Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
"The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell." Shak.
2. Disguise; covering. [Obs.]
"For she her sex under that strange purport Did use to hide." Spenser.

Purport
Pur´port, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purported; p. pr. & vb. n. Purporting.] [OF. purporter, pourporter. See Purport, n. ] To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; — often with an object clause or infinitive.
"They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter which little purported." Rowe.

Purpose
Pur´pose, n. [OF. purpos, pourpos, propos, L. propositum. See Propound.]
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
"He will his firste purpos modify." Chaucer.
"As my eternal purpose hath decreed." Milton.
"The flighty purpose never is o’ertook Unless the deed go with it." Shak.
2. Proposal to another; discourse. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. Instance; example. [Obs.] L’Estrange.In purpose, Of purpose, On purpose, with previous design; with the mind directed to that object; intentionally. On purpose is the form now generally used.
Syn. — design; end; intention; aim. See Design.

Purpose
Pur´pose, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purposed p. pr. & vb. n. Purposing.] [OF. purposer, proposer. See Propose.]
1. To set forth; to bring forward. [Obs.]
2. To propose, as an aim, to one’s self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; — often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause. Chaucer.
"Did nothing purpose against the state." Shak.
"I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living." Macaulay.

Purpose
Pur´pose, v. i. To have a purpose or intention; to discourse. [Obs.] Spenser.

Purposedly
Pur´posed•ly, adv. In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely.
"A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland."

Purposeful
Pur´pose•ful, a. Important; material. "Purposeful accounts." Tylor. — Pur´pose•ful•ly, adv.

Purposeless
Pur´pose•less, a. Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. — Pur´pose•less•ness, n.

Purposely
Pur´pose•ly, adv. With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly.
"In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths." Atterbury.
"So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong." Pope.

Purposer
Pur´pos•er, n.
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. [Obs.]
2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends.

Purposive
Pur´po•sive, a. Having or indicating purpose or design. "Purposive characters." Bastian.
"Purposive modification of structure in a bone." Owen.
"It is impossible that the frog should perform actions more purposive than these." Huxley.

Purpre
Pur´pre, n. & a. Purple. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Purpresture
Pur•pres´ture, n. [Probably corrupted (see Prest) fr. OF. pourprisure, fr. pourprendre: cf. LL. purprestura. Cf. Purprise.] (Law) Wrongful encroachment upon another’s property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]

Purpura
Pur´pu•ra, n. [L., purple, purple fish: cf. F. purpura. See Purple.]
1. (Med.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples. Dunglison.
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.

Purpure
Pur´pure, n. [L. purpura purple. See Purple.] (Her.) Purple, — represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

Purpureo-
Pur•pu´re•o- A combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red color. Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.

Purpuriparous
Pur•pu•rip´a•rous, a. [L. purpura purple + parere to produce.] (Biol.) Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.

Purpurogenous
Pur•pu•rog´e•nous, a. [L. purpura purple + -genous.] (Biol.) Having the power to produce a purple color; as the purpurogenous membrane, or choroidal epithelium, of the eye. See Visual purple, under Visual.

Purree
Pur´ree, n. [Hind. peori yellow.] (Chem.) A yellow coloring matter. See Euxanthin.

Purseful
Purse´ful, n. ; pl. Pursefuls . All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.

Purse-proud
Purse´-proud, a. Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

Purser
Purs´er, n. [See Purse, and cf. Bursar.]
1. (Naut.) A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; — now called paymaster.
2. A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.
3. Colloquially, any paymaster or cashier. Purser’s name (Naut.), a false name. [Slang]

Purset
Purs´et, n. A purse or purse net. B. Jonson.

Pursiness
Pur´si•ness, n. State of being pursy.

Pursive
Pur´sive, a. Pursy. [Obs.] Holland.

Pursiveness
Pur´sive•ness, n. Pursiness. [Obs. & R.]

Purslain
Purs´lain, n. Same as Purslane.

Pursual
Pur•su´al, n. The act of pursuit. [R.]

Pursuance
Pur•su´ance, n. [See Pursuant.]
1. The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.
"Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths." Jer. Taylor.
2. The state of being pursuant; consequence. In pursuance of, in accordance with; in prosecution or fulfillment of.

Pursuer
Pur•su´er, n.
1. One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
2. (Eccl. & Scots Law) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.

Pursuit
Pur•suit´, n. [F. poursuite, fr. poursuivre. See Pursue, v. t.]
1. The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy. Clarendon.
"Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit." Shak.
2. A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.
3. Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.
4. (Law) Prosecution. [Obs.]
"That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court." Fuller. Curve of pursuit (Geom.), a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according to some specified law.

Pursy
Pur´sy, a. [OF. pourcif, poulsif, poussif, fr. pousser to push, thrust, heave, OF. also poulser: cf. F. pousse the heaves, asthma. See Push.] Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as pursy insolence. Shak.
"Pursy important he sat him down." Sir W. Scot.

Purulent
Pu´ru•lent, a. [L. purulentus, fr. pus, puris, pus, matter: cf. F. purulent. See Pus.] (Med.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as purulent inflammation.

Purvey
Pur•vey´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Purveyed p. pr. & vb. n. Purveying.] [OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir, porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.]
1. To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
"Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day." Spenser.
2. To procure; to get.
"I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin." Sir W. Scot.

Purvey
Pur•vey´, v. i.
1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Chaucer. Milton.
2. To pander; — with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their malice." [R.] Burke.

Purveyance
Pur•vey´ance, n. [Cf. F. pourvoyance.]
1. The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. Chaucer.
"The ill purveyance of his page." Spenser.
2. That which is provided; provisions; food.
3. (Eng. Law) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner’s consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished. Wharton.

Purveyor
Pur•vey´or, n. [OE. porveour, OF. pourveor, F. pourvoyeur. See Purvey, and cf. Proveditor.]
1. One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
2. An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king’s household. [Eng.]
3. a procurer; a pimp; a bawd. Addison.

Puseyism
Pu´sey•ism, n. (Ch. of Eng.) The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated " Tracts for the Times;" tractarianism. See Tractarianism. { Pu´sey•is´tic, Pu´sey•ite } a. Of or pertaining to Puseyism.

Push, n. [Probably F. poche. See Pouch.] A pustule; a pimple. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bacon.

Push, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pushed p. pr. & vb. n. Pushing.] [OE. possen, pussen, F. pousser, fr. L. pulsare, v. intens. fr. pellere, pulsum, to beat, knock, push. See Pulse a beating, and cf. Pursy.]
1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; — opposed to draw.
"Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat." Milton.
2. To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
"If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, … the ox shall be stoned." Ex. xxi. 32.
3. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far. " To push his fortune." Dryden.
"Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor." Spectator.
"We are pushed for an answer." Swift.
4. To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
5. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

Push, v. i.
1. To make a thrust; to shove; as to push with the horns or with a sword. Shak.
2. To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as a man must push in order to succeed.
"At the time of the end shall the kind of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come against him." Dan. xi. 40.
"War seemed asleep for nine long years; at length Both sides resolved to push, we tried our strength." Dryden.
3. To burst pot, as a bud or shoot. To push on, to drive or urge forward; to hasten.
"The rider pushed on at a rapid pace." Sir W. Scott.

Push, n.
1. A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
2. Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as to give the ball the first push.
3. An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.
"Exact reformation is not perfected at the first push." Milton.
"When it comes to the push, ’tis no more than talk." L’ Estrange.
4. The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as he has push, or he has no push. [Colloq.]
Syn. — See Thrust.

Push, n. A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang. [Slang]

Push button. (Elec.) A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.

Pusher
Push´er, n. One who, or that which, pushes.

Pushing
Push´ing, a. Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also forward; officious, intrusive. — Push´ing•ly, adv.

Pushpin
Push´pin, n. A child’s game played with pins. L. Estrange.

Pusil
Pu´sil, a. [L. pusillus very little.] Very small; little; petty. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pusillanimity
Pu•sil•la•nim´i•ty, n. [L. pusillanimitas: cf. F. pusillanimite.] The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness.
"The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice." Shak.
"It is obvious to distinguished between an act of … pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility." South.
Syn. — Cowardliness; cowardice; fear; timidity.

Pusillanimous
Pu•sil•lan´i•mous, a. [L. pusillanimis; pusillus very little (dim. of pusus a little boy; cf. puer a boy, E. puerile) + animus the mind: cf. F. pusillanime. See Animosity.]
1. Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean- spirited; spiritless; cowardly; — said of persons, as a pusillanimous prince.
2. Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble; as pusillanimous counsels. "A low and pusillanimous spirit." Burke.
Syn. — Cowardly; dastardly; mean-spirited; fainthearted; timid; weak; feeble.

Pusley
Pus´ley, n. (Bot.) Purslane. [Colloq. U. S]

Puss (pus), n. [Cf. D. poes, Ir. & Gael. pus.]
1. A cat; - - a fondling appellation.
2. A hare; — so called by sportsmen. Puss in the corner, a game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one. — Puss moth (Zoöl.), any one of several species of stout bombycid moths belonging to Cerura, Harpyia, and allied genera, esp. Harpyia vinuli, of Europe. The larvae are humpbacked, and have two caudal appendages.

Pussy, n. [Dim. of puss.]
1. A pet name for a cat; also an endearing name for a girl.
2. A catkin of the pussy willow.
3. The game of tipcat; — also called pussy cat. Pussy willow (Bot.), any kind of willow having large cylindrical catkins clothed with long glossy hairs, especially the American Salix discolor; — called also glaucous willow, and swamp willow.

Pussy
Pus´sy, a. See Pursy. [Colloq. or Low]

Pustulate
Pus´tu•late, v. t. [L. pustulatus, p. p. of pustulare to blister, fr. pustula. See Pustule.] To form into pustules, or blisters. { Pus´tu•late, Pus´tu•la•ted } a. Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.

Pustule
Pus´tule ( 135), n. [L. pustula, and pusula: cf. F. pustule.] (Med.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.

Put, n. [See Pit.] A pit. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Put, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth. Chaucer.

Put, n. [Cf. W. pwt any short thing, pwt o ddyn a squab of a person, pwtog a short, thick woman.] A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
"Queer country puts extol Queen Bess’s reign." Bramston.
"What droll puts the citizens seem in it all." F. Harrison.

Put, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Put; p. pr. & vb. n. Putting.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v. i.]
1. To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; — nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by ( to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth ( to put forth = to thrust out).
"His chief designs are … to put thee by from thy spiritual employment." Jer. Taylor.
2. To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.
"This present dignity, In which that I have put you." Chaucer.
"I will put enmity between thee and the woman." Gen. iii. 15.
"He put no trust in his servants." Job iv. 18.
"When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might." Milton.
"In the mean time other measures were put in operation." Sparks.
3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.]
"No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends." Wyclif (John xv. 13).
5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; — formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as to put a question; to put a case.
"Let us now put that ye have leave." Chaucer.
"Put the perception and you put the mind." Berkeley.
"These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin." Milton.
"All this is ingeniously and ably put." Hare.
6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
"These wretches put us upon all mischief." Swift.
"Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense." Sir W. Scott.
"Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge." Milton.
7. To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as to put the shot or weight.
8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. Raymond. Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be.
"Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live." Bp. Hall. — To put about (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. — To put away. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. — To put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny.
"Coming from thee, I could not put him back." Shak. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour. (d) To restore to the original place; to replace. — To put by. (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. "Smiling put the question by." Tennyson. (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as to put by money. — To put down. (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as to put down prices. (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as to put down rebellion or traitors.
"Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down." Shak.
"Sugar hath put down the use of honey." Bacon. (d) To subscribe; as to put down one’s name. — To put forth. (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to come or push out; as a tree puts forth leaves. (b) To make manifest; to develop; also to bring into action; to exert; as to put forth strength. (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like. (d) To publish, as a book. — To put forward. (a) To advance to a position of prominence or responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour. — To put in. (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to introduce with difficulty; as to put in a word while others are discoursing. (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship. (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court. Burrill. (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place. — To put off. (a) To lay aside; to discard; as to put off a robe; to put off mortality. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet." Ex. iii. 5. (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle.
"I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue." Boyle.
"We might put him off with this answer." Bentley. (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as to put off repentance. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory. (e) To push from land; as to put off a boat. — To put on or upon. (a) To invest one’s self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury … put on the shape of a man." L’Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on the peace." Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." 2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he was put upon." L’Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as he put him upon bread and water. "This caution will put them upon considering." Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. Burrill. — To put out. (a) To eject; as to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. — To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer.
"For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o’er to heaven and to my mother." Shak. (c) To defer; to postpone; as the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as to put one over the river. — To put the handto or unto. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as to put one’s hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. "He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods." Ex. xxii. 11. — To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] — To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as to put the safety of the state to hazard. "That dares not put it to the touch." Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. Dickens. — To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. — To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. — To put to death, to kill. — To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. — To put this and that ( ortwo and twotogether, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. — To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. "O gentle lady, do not put me to ’t." Shak. — To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. — To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. — To put to trial, oron trial, to bring to a test; to try. — To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. — To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as put up that letter. Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; — followed by to; as he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as to put up travelers. — To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang]
Syn. — To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. — Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object.

Put (put; often put in def. 3), v. i.
1. To go or move; as when the air first puts up. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. To steer; to direct one’s course; to go.
"His fury thus appeased, he puts to land." Dryden.
3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put. To put about (Naut.), to change direction; to tack. — To put back (Naut.), to turn back; to return. "The French … had put back to Toulon." Southey. — To put forth. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. "Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth." Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak. — To put in (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. — To put in for. (a) To make a request or claim; as to put in for a share of profits. (b) To go into covert; — said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one’s self; to stand as a candidate for. Locke. — To put off, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. — To put on, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. — To put over (Naut.), to sail over or across. — To put to sea (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean. — To put up. (a) To take lodgings; to lodge. (b) To offer one’s self as a candidate. L’Estrange. — To put up to, to advance to. [Obs.] "With this he put up to my lord." Swift. — To put up with. (a) To overlook, or suffer without recompense, punishment, or resentment; as to put up with an injury or affront. (b) To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as to put up with bad fare.