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

Bearing children.

The pewit.

Puffed up; vain.

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

Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.

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.

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

The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.

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 quality or state of being puffy.

a. n. from Puff, v. i. t.

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

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

A footprint; a track; as of a boar.

A short, thick nose; a snubnose.

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

Same as Puggry.

To pucker.

Puckered.

Thieving.

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

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

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

The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.

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

Of or pertaining to pugillism.

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

Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness.

The same as Pugh.

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

Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled.

Power; strength; might; force; potency.

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

In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great strength.

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

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

Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.

One who pukes, vomits.

Same as Pucka.

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

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

To cry like a chicken.

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

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

Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.

Abounding with fleas.

Whimpering; whining; childish.

With whining or complaint.

A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.

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

Poultry.

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

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

Plucked; pilled; moulting.

Poultry.

One who, or that which, pulls.

A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.

To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

A germinating, or budding.

A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Same as Pulmonibranchiata, -ate.

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

Same as Pulmonata.

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

A spirometer.

The determination of the capacity of the lungs.

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

Lungwort.

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.

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

same as Pulmonate (a).

Same as Pulmonata.

Same as Pulmonate.

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

Same as Pulmonata.

Having lungs; pulmonate.

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.

To reduce to pulp.

A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit.

the quality or state of being pulpy.

Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

Placed in a pulpit.

One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt.

A preacher.

Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit.

Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching.

The teaching of the pulpit; preaching.

Containing pulp; pulpy.

Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.

An intoxicating Mexican drink. See Agave.

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.

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.

A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.

Beating; throbbing.

A beater; a striker.

Capable of pulsating; throbbing.

To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

Having no pulsation; lifeless.

The state of being pulseless.

Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.

A sphygmograph.

The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to suction or traction.

Tending to compel; compulsory.

To put.

Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

Poultry.

A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly Cibotium Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

Having a finely powdered surface; pulverulent.

To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize.

Ashes of barilla.

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as, the stone pulverizes easily.

One who, or that which, pulverizes.

Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.

The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.