One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
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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.
Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
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.
A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption of pyogenic microorganisms into the blood, usually from a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.
A magpie; a piet.
Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.
The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite.
Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small.
One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchi/ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
A division of swimming birds which includes the grebes, divers, auks, etc., in which the legs are placed far back.
Of or pertaining to the Pygopodes.
The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebr/, and supports the uropigium.
An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.
In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs. Usually used in the plural. See pajamas.
An ancient English fishing boat.
The passage between the iter and optoc/le in the brain.
a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.
The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart.
A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.
The opening from the stomach into the intestine. A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.
See Pine.
A pennant.
A blue coloring matter found in the pus from old sores, supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium (Bacillus pyocyaneus).
Producing or generating pus.
Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus.
Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.
The magpie. See Piet.
A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.
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