To steal purses; to rob.

Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession of riches.

All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.

The office of purser.

A purse or purse net.

State of being pursy.

Pursy.

Pursiness.

Same as Purslane.

An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.

Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted.

The act of pursuit.

The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.

Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.

Agreeably; conformably.

To go in pursuit; to follow.

One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.

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.

To pursue.

Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.

That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.

The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself.

Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

In a purulent manner.

Purveyance.

To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.

The body of a statute, or that part which begins with / Be it enacted, / as distinguished from the preamble. The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.

The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

A piece of armor for the breast; often, an addition to, or re/nforcement of. the breastplate; -- called also pesane.

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.

One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously.

Of or pertaining to Puseyism.

A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang.

One who, or that which, pushes.

Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.

A child's game played with pins.

Very small; little; petty.

The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness.

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.

With pusillanimity.

Purslane.

A cat; -- a fondling appellation.

See Pursy.

Producing pustules. A medicine that produces pustules, as croton oil.

Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.

To form into pustules, or blisters.

Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.

Resembling, or covered with, pustules; pustulate; pustular.

A prostitute.

To put an end to. To prove false; to discredit; as, Galileo's observations put paid to the notion that the Earth was the center of the universe.

to connect a device to a telephone line surreptitiously, so as to listen to or record the conversations of persons on the telephone without their knowledge; -- of telephones, persons, or locations. Used as police jargon.

Do what you claim you can do; -- a challenge to someone who has claimed some ability.

A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.

Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.

The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child.

Same as Pachak.

An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb.

Same as Patela.

Putage.

Rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. Jer. Taylor.

The quality or state of being putrid.

One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose.

A keeper of a brothel; a procurer.

Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.

The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.

Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.

To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

To become putrescent or putrid; to putrefy.

The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.

Becoming putrid or rotten.

A substance, usually nitrogenous, which is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures.

A nontoxic diamine, C4H12N2, formed in the putrefaction of the flesh of mammals and some other animals.

Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

Putridity.

Putrefied.

Putrefaction.

To putrefy.

That which is undergoing putrefaction; the products of putrefaction.

Putage.

To make a putt.

To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around in the garden.

An instigator.

One who putties; a glazier.

The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game.

See Futtock.

To cement, or stop, with putty.

White-faced; -- used contemptuously.

An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

A fool; a jerk.

See Poy.

A harlot; a drab; a hussy.

To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.

To be bewildered, or perplexed.

Having the head full of confused notions; given to getting perplexed over simple matters; also, characteristic of persons that are so.

The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively.

The state of being puzzled; perplexity.

One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes.

In a puzzling manner.

See Pozzuolana.

Of or pertaining to py/mia; of the nature of py/mia.

Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.

In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.

An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.

One of the Pycnogonida.

A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda.

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

See under Intercolumniation. A pycnostyle colonnade.

See 2d Pie (b).

See Piebald.

Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.

See Pyaemia.