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Pucherite

Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.

Puck

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

Pucka

Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar.

Pucker

A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.

Puckerer

One who, or that which, puckers.

Puckery

Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.

Puckish

Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.

Pud

The hand; the first.

Puddening

A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.

Pudder

A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle.

Pudding

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.

Puddle-ball

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

Puddle-bar

An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

Puddler

One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

Puddling

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. Puddle. See Puddle, n., 2.

Puddly

Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul.

Pudenda

The external organs of generation.

Pudendal

Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum.

Pudendum

The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.

Pudgy

Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand.

Pudic

Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.

Pudu

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

Pue

To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.

Pueblo

A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region.

Puer

The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning.

Puerile

Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.

Puerility

The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness.

Puerperal

Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.

Puff

Puffed up; vain.

Puff-leg

Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.

Puff-legged

Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.

Puffball

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

One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

Puffery

The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.

Puffin

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.

Puffiness

The quality or state of being puffy.

Puffingly

In a puffing manner; with vehement breathing or shortness of breath; with exaggerated praise.

Puffy

Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.

Pug

A footprint; a track; as of a boar.

Pug nose

A short, thick nose; a snubnose.

Pug-faced

Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.

Puggree Puggry

A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun.

Pugh

Pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain.

Pugil

As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers.

Pugilism

The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.

Pugilist

One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

Pugnacious

Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.

Pugnacity

Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness.

Puh

The same as Pugh.

Puisne

One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.

Puisny

Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled.

Puissance

Power; strength; might; force; potency.

Puissant

Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.

Puissantly

In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great strength.

Puissantness

The state or quality of being puissant; puissance; power.

Puit

A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.

Puke

Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.

Puker

One who pukes, vomits.

Pulas

The East Indian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See Gum Butea, under Gum.

Pulchritude

That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.

Pule

To cry like a chicken.

Puler

One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.

Pulex

A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.

Pulicene

Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.

Puling

Whimpering; whining; childish.

Pulkha

A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.

Pull

The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.

Pullback

That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.

Pulldevil

A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish.

Pulled

Plucked; pilled; moulting.

Puller

One who, or that which, pulls.

Pullet

A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.

Pulley

To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

Pullicate

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

Pullulate

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Pullus

A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Pulmocutaneous

Of or pertaining to the lungs and the akin; as, the pulmocutaneous arteries of the frog.

Pulmograde

Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medus/.

Pulmometry

The determination of the capacity of the lungs.

Pulmonarian

Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively.

Pulmonata

An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limn/a and Planorbis.

Pulmonate

Having breathing organs that act as lungs. Pertaining to the Pulmonata. One of the Pulmonata.

Pulmonic

Relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary. A pulmonic medicine.

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