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.

A punctator.

Marked with small spots.

A point.

The act or process of puncturing. See Acupuncture.

To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.

Having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.

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.

A short and fat woman; a squab.

A bedbug.

A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners.

Pungency.

The quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia.

Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.

In a pungent manner; sharply.

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).

A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.

To punish.

Of a bright red or purple color.

The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses.

One who inflicts punishment.

The act of punishing.

Punishment.

Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord.

A minute biting fly of the genus Ceratopogon or allied genus of the family Chironomid/, found in swarms in various densely wooded or mountaneous regions.

A pumpkin.

A young strumpet.

A punster.

A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

The art or practice of punning; paronomasia.

One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit.

To boat or hunt in a punt.

A punt made from the goal line by a player of the side which has made a touchdown to one of his own side for a fair catch, from which an attempt to kick a goal may be made.

See Pontee.

One of the points sometimes drilled as guides for cutting away superfluous stone.

A scalper.

A point or hit.

See Pontee.

A youth; a novice.

Same as Poy, n., 3.

To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.

Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.

Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.

To become a pupa.

the act of becoming a pupa.

A pupa.

Cider brandy.

Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larv/ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.

The state of being a pupil.

The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.

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.

Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larv/, or larval skins, of certain Diptera. Of or pertaining to the Pupipara.

A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larv/ and pup/ of insects.

Feeding on the pup/ of insects.

Publican.

A small image in the human form; a doll.

Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet.

A master of a puppet show.

Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.

To bring forth whelps; to pup.

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

Like a puppy.

Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.

The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.

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.

Pertaining to the Puranas.

Wholly blind.

Purslane.

Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt.

The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.

One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.

A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.

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.