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.

To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

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.

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.

Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.

To apply pulvil to.

A kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags.

One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.

A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.

Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.

Same as Pulvillus.

A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.

A stint.

To make smooth with pumice.

A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.

Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.

Same as Pomace.

Same as Pommel.

To work, or raise water, a pump.

That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.

One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.

A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.

A pompet.

a. n. from pump.

See Pumpkin.

A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

Large and rounded.

To persuade or affect by a pun.

A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.

To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.

The final sentence, phrase, or word in a joke or humorous story that is unexpected and produces the humorous effect; the point of a joke.

One who, or that which, punches.

See Puncheon.

A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked.

Short and thick, or fat.

Pointed; ending in a point or points.

One who marks with points. specifically, one who writes Hebrew with points; -- applied to a Masorite.

Comprised in, or like, a point; exact.

Having the form of a point.

A nice point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, or proceeding; particularity or exactness in forms; as, the punctilios of a public ceremony.

Attentive to punctilio; very nice or exact in the forms of behavior, etiquette, or mutual intercourse; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.

A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.

A punctator.

A nice point of form or ceremony.

Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.

One who is very exact in observing forms and ceremonies.

The quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.

In a punctual manner; promptly; exactly.

Punctuality; exactness.

To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.

The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.

Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation.

One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.