pug-mill 
__^. iron cylinder, generally set upright, 
Inx shaft In the line <>( id axis, carrying several knlTM 
arranged In a iplral niaiincr niiind the shaft, with their 
edge* lomewhat depressed. The clay l thrown In at the 
top of the cylinder, out and kneaded by the knives In it* 
downward progress, and tlnally forced out through a hole 
in the iM.ltoni of the cylinder. 
Pugnaces (pug-mVsez). n. i>l. [NL., pi. of L. 
IIIIIIIKIJ- (IIHI/IUIC-), combative: MJ>.'/"".J 
An' "Id division of domestic dogs, including 
those notable for their fighting qualities, as 
mast ills and bulldogs: distinguished from Celc- 
res and Siii/m-i*. 
pugnacious (pug-ua'shus). . L. put/lias 
( IIHIJHHC-), combative, <pugnarc, fight, < puginif, 
fist. Cf. I'Hijil 1 , /'</''] Disposed to fight; 
quarrelsome; given to fighting: as, a pugna- 
fellow ; a pugnacious disposition. 
l-:;.-, 
Pulex 
A furious, puynaciout pope, as Julius II. 
Barrmn, Pope's Supremacy. 
The mistress of the puyiuieiou* quadruped entered to 
the rescue. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 33. 
Syn. Contentious, 
pugnaciously (pug-na'shus-li), adf. [< pugna- 
cious + -//A] In a pugnacious manner, 
pugnaciousness (pug-na'shus-nes), n. ^pug- 
nacious + -ness.] Pugnacity. [Rare.] 
pugnacity (pug-nas'i-ti), n. [= F. pugnacitr 
= Sp. pugnaeiaad = Pg. pugnaddade, < L. pug- 
nacita(t-)n, combativeuess, quarrelsomeness, < 
iiugnax (pugnac-), combative: see pugnacious.] 
The quality of being pugnacious ; disposition 
to fight ; quarrelsomeness. 
I like better that entry of truth which cometh peace- 
ably . . . than that which cometh with pwjnacity and 
contention. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, 11. 177. 
Keeping alive a natural pugnacity of character. Motley. 
pug-nose (pug'noz'), n. [< pug 1 , pity'*, + nose.] 
1. A nose turned upward at the tip like that of 
the pug-dog; a snub-nose. 
Then half arose. 
From beside his toes, 
His little pug-dog with his little pwj-nont. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 55. 
See eel and fiiiHenrhe- 
Itharerolv- With what help and aid the virtues resist and overcome puke'-'t (puk), a. and . [Formerly also jit-irkr ; 
< ME. piiki ; appar. an unassibilated form of 
/(<.] I. a. Of a dark color, said to be red- 
dish brown. 
The coulour of this camell Is for the most part browne, 
at puke. TopteU, Four-footed Beasts. (HallitrrU.) 
H. . A dark color between russet and black ; 
puce. 
I wolde In alle hast possible have that same gowne of 
puke ffurryd with whyght Inn, I.e. Patton Mtert, IIL 158. 
You shall doe well to send flue or slxe broad clothes, 
some blackes, puke*, or other sad colours. 
HaUuyti Voyage*, I. S67. 
puker(pu'ker), M. 1. One who pukes or vomits. 
2f. A medicine which causes vomiting; an 
emetic. 
The griper senna, and ihepuker me, 
The sweetener sassafras, are added too. 
(Jarth, Dispensary, ill. 
a. Wearing 
puke-colored stockings. [Hare.] 
the iniumiirr of the vices. 
>'> /'. Mart, i t. .pin (tr. by Kobinsou), It. 4. 
Commonly cioll and popular warres decay Inpuimnee, 
preuaile slldome, and may nut Indmv. 
liiifrara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 24. 
His hart did earne 
To prove his puitmnce In battell brave. 
Spnuer, F. Q., I. 1. . 
Leave your F.ngland, as dead midnight still, 
Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women, 
Either past or not arrived to pith and miumiu-t. 
SAa*.,Hen.V.,uL,Prol., 1. 21. 
Still from time to time 
Came murmurs of her beauty from the South, 
And of her brethren, youths otpuiaance. 
Tcnnyton, Princess, I. 
2t. Jurisdiction; power; control. 
The educacion of childeren should not altogeather be vn- 
der the puissaunee of their fathers, but vnder the pobnqae 
power and aucthority, becawse the publique haue therein 
more Interest* then their parentes. . , - t / ,, 
Boote^PrecJ*(E.E.T.8.,extniser.),i.ll. pUke-StOCkingt (P,uk tokjnf 
St. Armed force. 
Than, with the first* puy^aunce that we may make, lete JVilt thou ^'^QS^SlSStSif^' "'" 
vs distroye the vitaile fro them thourgh the contreye, and P atetl ' a aU ^Ai i H" IV IL 4 7* 
lete vs sette in eche garnyson as moche peple as we may. 
Merlin (E. El T. 8.), II. 174. puke-Weed (puk wed), n. The officinal lobelia. 
All the pays-ante that was sent by Kyng Phllyppe ... Lobelia inflate, once much employed as an 
they were all discomfytted and slayne. emetic. 
Bernen,ta. of Froissart'sChron., 1. 731. prjking-fever (pu'king-fe'ver), w. Same as 
Cousin, go draw our puixmnee together. mM-xickncss 
Shak., K. John, lii. 1.338. pukisht (l)U ' k j s h), . [< p,d-<* + -il,l .] Of the 
puissant (pu'i-sant), a. [< ME. puyssant, puy- color ea il e ,i pu ke. 
taunt, pusant, < OF. puissant, poisxant, Y.puis- 
sant = It. poxsentc, powerful, < ML. as if *pos- 
scn(t-)s, forL. i>oten(t-)s, ppr. of posse, be able: 
*ee> potent.] Powerful; mighty; strong; vigor- 
ous; forcible: as, a puissant prince or empire. 
Which fele letters brought with breffes many 
Of Anthony hys part, a pusanl man tho. 
Bom. of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), L 2BS3. 
The flemynges were beyond the ryuer puystaunt ynough 
... to kepe the passage. 
2. The pug-nosed eel. 
/I/A'. 
pug-nosed (pug'uozd), a. [< pug 1 + nose + 
-fit-.] Having a pug-nose. Pug-nosed eel. SeeetJ. 
pug-piles (pug'pilz), ti.pl. Piles mortised into 
one another by a dovetail-joint. Also called 
dovetailed pilex. 
pug-piling (pug'pi'ling), H. Dovetailed piling. 
pugree (pug're), i. [Also puggree, puggcry, 
jiugaree, etc. ; < Hind, pagri, a turban.] A 
scarf of cotton or silk wound round the hat or 
helmet like a turban to protect the head from 
the sun. [Anglo-Indian.] 
With a little pulling and wrenching, and the help of my 
long, tough turban-cloth, a real native puyree, we set and 
)*ound the arm as best we could. 
F. M. Crawford, Mr. Isaacs, x. 
puht, intcrj. Same anpooh. Shak., Hamlet (folio 
1023), i. 3. 
I am careless what the fusty world sneaks of me. I'uh .' 
B. Jonion, Every Man out of his Humour, 111. 1. 
puisne (pu'ue), . and n. [An archaic form of 
IIHIII/, retained in legal use: see puny 1 .] I. n. 
1. In late, younger or inferior in rank. 
An old gentlemau . . . declaiming against the times, 
and treating them and their puitny advocate with more 
contempt than either one or the other seemed to deserve. 
Obtener, No. 82. 
2t. Later. 
If he undergo any alteration. It must be In time, or of a 
puime date to eternity. Sir M. Hale. 
3f. Same as pan y l ,2 Holler puisne. See mulier*. 
-Puisne Judge. See judge. [Eng.l 
H. ii. A junior; an inferior; specifically, in 
linr, a judge of inferior rank. 
Each odd puime of the lawyer's Inn, 
Eiich barmy-froth, that last day did begin 
To read his little, or his ne'er a whit. 
Martian, Scourge of Vlllante, To the Reader. 
This 'tis for a puisne 
In policy'* ITotean school to try conclusions 
With one that hath commenced, and gone out doctor. 
Mamnffer, Duke of Milan, iv. 1. 
If still this privilege were ordinarily left in the Chim-h, 
it were not a work for puitnet and novices, but for the 
greatest masters, and most learned and eminently holy 
doctors, which the times can possibly yield. 
/;/'. Hull, Invisible World, III. I 9. 
Lord Chief Justice Coke did not pass sentence on Mrs. 
Turner; that grim office was tierformed by his puime, 
( n.ke, J. If. and Q.. 7th ser., IX. 268. 
puisnyt, '' Same ttspuixiif, puny 1 . [Rare.] 
puissance (pu'i-sans), . [< ME. iiui/xxiiin-i, 
/iiiyxiiinii-r, < OF. iniixxtiiH-i . /inix.iiiiiri , !'. /niis- 
xn are, power, < iniixxinil, IM> erf ul: see ;><*- 
xii ut.] 1. Power; itmigtaj force; vi){or. 
Thel were moche peple and rlche lordes of (rate 
vanef. and ther-to were thei well horsed. 
MerliiXK E. T. S.), II. 
And mighty in my ta 
I saw my selfe old Canadie, 
About twelve of the cli>cke. 
Bare foote, hyr lockes about her heade, 
Vtuckde in pukithe pocke. 
Drant, tr. of Horace's Satires, vlll. 
pulas (pti-las'), . [Hind, paldsh, palas.] An 
East Indian tree, Butea frondosa ; also, B. #- 
iierba, which differs chiefly in its climbing 
habit. Also palas, and piilas-trei: See Btca 
Bernen, tr. of Froissart's Chron., I. 721. pt Q a8 ^,il (',,,,-las'oil), . Same as ninodooga-oil '. 
m-las'tre), M. Same as pulas. 
a. | ME. pulrriniis, < L. pnlchrr, 
piilcer, beautiful, + -ions.] Beauteous; beau- 
tiful ; fair. 
The seffe child Ffromont that time callyd was. 
Of stature of persnne hie, gret, and long, 
Inly wel formed, pulcrivus of face, 
Sage, subtile, wel taught, myghty and stronge. 
Kom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.\ I. 126;!. 
pulchritude (pul'kri-tud), . [< ME. pulcri- 
tude, < OF. */ntlcritu<le = Sp. piilrritud = Pg. 
liuli'lirituili', < L. pulcliritudo,pulrriliido, beauty, 
< ptitrhfr, (intccr, OL. pnlecr, beautiful.] Beau- 
ty; comeliness; handsomeness. 
Persing our hartes with thl pulcritude. 
Court of Love, 1. 613. 
Tin mi-tins . . . maintain'd an Opinion that . . . the 
Pulchritude and Preservation of the World consisted in 
Varieties and Dissimilitudes. llouvll, Letters, III. 2. 
The queen, when she had view'd 
The strange eye*dazzling admirable sight, 
Fain would have prais'd the state and pulchritude. 
Sir J. l)amen, Dancing. 
What more than heavenly pulthritude Is this? 
B. Jonion, Every Man out of his Humour, II. 1. 
Puissant is the Danih king, and strong 
In all the sinews of approved force. 
Ford, Honour Triumphant, Monarch! 1 Meeting. 
Lofn is as puutant a divinity In the Norse Edda as Cam- 
adcva in the red vault of India, Eros in the (ircek, or Cu- 
pid in the Latin heaven. Ememon, Success. 
puissantly (pu'i-sant-li), adv. In a puissant 
manner; powerfully; potently. 
Mahomet, a man subtile In witte, of valiant hearte, and 
fortunate in exployt of war, as he manifested most pui- 
inntlii by obteyning more honour than any other in the 
carnpe. (fuevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 32U. 
puissantness (i.u'i-sant-nes), H. Puissance ; 
power; strength. 
The emperour . . . hath bene drluen to extreme shiftes, 
and that by the pollicie of mean men who were thought 
to be hys f rendes. and not by the puimntnet of others who 
were knowne to be his open enemya. 
AKliam, Atfalrs of (Jermany, p. 3. 
puist, puistie (pust, pus'ti), a. [< poust, n.] 
Ill easy circumstances ; well-to-do: said of per- 
sons of the lower classes who have made money. 
[Scotch.] 
puit 1 (pu it), n. Same as pi-wit (I). [Eng.] 
puit^t 
Sp 
wel 
a rill. 
The putt* flowing from the fountains of life. 
Jer. Taylor. 
puka-puka (po'ka-po'kii), w. [New Zealand.] 
A small branching composite tree, Senecio For- 
steri, of New Zealand. Its leaves are very large, 
sometimes a foot long, and used by the natives as paper, 
whence puka-puka has become the native word for com- 
mon paper. 
puke 1 (puk), r. ; pret. and pp. puked, ppr. puk- 
ing. [Origin obscure; perhaps for "spuke or 
mettfr. extended form of speir. Cf. G. stnicken, 
spit.] I. intrans. 1. To vomit; eject the con- 
tents of the stomach. 
The Infant 
Mewling and ptikiiuj In the nurse's arms. 
Shak., As you Like It, II. 7. 144. 
2. To sicken ; be overcome with loathing. 
As line of Woodward's patients, sick and sore, 
I pnkt, I nauseate yet he thrusts In more. 
Pope, Satires of Donne, iv. 153. 
II, trims. 1. To vomit; throw up; eject from 
the stomach: generally with u/i. 2. To cause 
to puke or vomit. 
puke 1 (puk), w. [< /Hikr*. r.] 1. Vomit; a 
vomiting: that whieh is vomited. 2. An 
nnetie. 3. A distju-tiin; person. [Low.] 
4. |>>'.l An inhabitant of the State of Mis- 
puldront, . An obsolete form of paiildmn. 
iiiiiri. 
. I'. S. | 
, etc., pue' 2 , etc.] I. intraiis. 1. To peep 
or pipe plaintively, as a chick. 2. To cry as 
a complaining child ; whine; whimper. 
The poore silly ftoules peuiing out of Purgatory. 
fUrT. More, Tract* (I'topia, Int., p. xcvll.} 
A wretched pultun 'oL Shak., R. and J., 111. 5. ML 
Thon 'rt such a puling thing ! wipe your eyes and rise : 
go your ways. Beau, and I 'I.. Coxcomb, Iv. 7. 
Wherefore should I pule, and, like a girl. 
Put finger In the eye? Ford, Broken Heart, v. i 
All the wisdom of the ages will avail It nothing If It 
wile ill discontent and fret in nervous sickness. 
JV. A. Bee., CXLII. 145. 
Il.t trawi. To litter in a whining or queru- 
lous manner: without. 
I say " You love " ; you peult me out a No. 
Draytun. Idea, r. 
puler (pu'ler), w. One who pules or whim 
sickly, complaining person. 
If she be pale of complexion, she will prove but a pvler; 
is she high coloured, an ill cognizance. 
The Man in the Moone (1009), slg. G. (HalKtrtU.) 
Pulez (pu'leks). n. [NL. (Linmrus, ITilT,). < L. 
/nili-j, a flea.] 1. A notable ireniis of insei'ts. 
tvpical of the I'ltliriilii; or lira family. They lead 
a'seml panudtlc life U|K>M mull :,n<l other animal* I In 
larva; feed on refuse, and are slender and hlliidi. Many 
species are known. /' irritant is the common flea which 
