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Pukul, to strike, to knock, to whip; to divide, as in arithmetic; to levy u.pon, as atax; 

 to apportion a contribution. Di pukul rata, every one paid an equal share. Also 

 to take an average. 



Pukulan, a place to beat in. An indigo vat, from the water being beaten to separate 

 tlie feculae. 



Pulang, to return, to go home, to revert. 



Pu lang anting, to go and return the same day. 



Pulangkön, to give back, to return anything borrowed. 



Pu las, to rub on paint, whitewash or the like. To daub. 



Pulasari, name of a plant, Alyxia Stellata, used medicinally. Quere — Palet, C. 411, 

 the erection of the hairs of the body considered as a proof of exquisite delight. Sari , 

 used much in compound words on Java to denote, a flower, or beauty. 



Pulasari, name of a mountain in Bantam, a little way to the south of the Gunung 

 Karang. 



Pulën, said of any food, but especially properly boiled rice, which is glib and easily 

 swallowed. 



Pulé pan dak, name of a plant used for a strong drastic. Given to horses , dogs or 

 other animals on which it operates very powerfully. Ophyoxylon Serpentinum of the 

 family Apocyneae. 



Pulës, name of a class of plants, the leaves of which have stinging properties, the same 

 as the common nettle in Europe , Urtica Dioica, only in a more violent degree. 

 Pulës, s imply, Urtica Stimulaus , ) 



Pulës m u n cl i n g , „ Astuans , > of the family Urticeae. 

 P u 1 ë s m a 1 é 1 a , „ Arclens , ) 



Pulës arëui, Cnesmosa Javanica , of the family Euphorbiaceae. 



Pulesan, name of a variety of Eambutan or Tundun. Nephelium globium. 



Pulihan, same as Mulihan, to weed a humah a second time. To go over again. 



Pulir, to twist, to twirl, to turn round, especially something smalh Mengïcé cheuli sia 

 di pulir hu aing , I Avill pull your ears — I will twirl them round. 



Pulo, an island, land surrounded by water. Pulina , C. 411, an island of alluvial for- 

 mation , or one from which the water has recently with drawn ; or a small island or 

 rock left in the middle of a river upon the falling of the waters. Polo, C. 424, the 

 plural of Poloioa, the Earth. 



Puluh, the decimal adjunct. Sa puluh, ten. Dua puluh, twenty. Lima puluh, Fifty. 

 Puluh probably originally means : to gather up , and is heard in Pulung , with fmal 

 nasal ng. The natives perhaps originally counted by putting down some trifiing ob- 

 ject — a pebble — as in still heard in satu^i sa-watu , or a grain as sa-hiji, and at 

 every ten, they gathered them together to keep a tally, and thus sa-puluh will be 

 one tally , dua puluh , two tallies s and so forth. 



Pulung, lo gather up , to collect, to piek up; to adopt. Pulung buah, to gather up 



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