Pnlei 
infests man. P. eanis is found npon the cat and the dog. 
See cut under Jteat. 
2. [1. c.] A flea, or some similar creature PU- 
lez arboreacenst, arborescent flea, an old name of any 
water-flea with branched horns that is, of any clado- 
cerous cruBtacean. 
puliallt, . See puliol. 
puliall-mountaint, n. Same aspella-mountain. 
pulic (pu'lik), . [Shortened from NL. Puli- 
caria.i In bot., a plant of the genus Pulicaria; 
fleabane. 
Pulicaria (pu - li - ka ' ri - a), n. [NL. (Gartner, 
1791), < LL. pulicaria, a plant, also called nsyl- 
lion (from the supposed power of the smoke of 
f. dysenterica to drive away fleas), < L. pulex, 
a flea.] A genus of composite herbs of the 
tribe Inuloidete and subtribe Evinulete. it is 
characterized by a long inner pappus of one row of bris- 
tles, a very short outer pappus more or less united into a 
crown or a fringed cup, a broad Involucre of narrow bracts 
in but few rows, yellow ray-flowers in one or two rows, and 
either smooth or ribbed achenes. Some species have the 
appearance of Inula, the elecampane, which is distin- 
guished by its nearly uniform pappus. There are about 
SO species, natives of Europe, Africa, and Asia, especially 
in the Mediterranean region. They are hairy annuals or 
perennials, with alternate sessile leaves, and flower-heads 
solitary at the summits of the branches. P. (Inula) dy- 
Knterica, the fleabane, was once supposed to destroy fleas, 
and has sometimes been used to cure dysentery. Old 
names of the plant are Jleabane-mullet and herb-chritto- 
pher. 
pulicat, . See pullicat. 
pulicene (pu'li-sen), a. [Irreg. for "nulicine, 
< L. pulex (pulic-), a flea, + -inci.] Relating 
to fleas; pulicous. 
Pulicidae (pu-lis'i-de), n. pi. [NL. (Stephens, 
1829), < Pulex (Pulic-) + -M.] The flea fam- 
ily, considered as either a family of Diptera, or 
the sole family of an order called Aphaniptera 
or Siphonaptertt. Several genera are known, the prin- 
cipal ones being Pulex and SarcopsyUa. Insects of this 
family are minute, wingless, with the anteiniEC from three- 
to fourteen-jointed, mandibles long and sen-ate, body ovate 
andmnch compressed, two simple eyes, no compound eyes, 
and edges of the head and prothorax armed with stout 
spines directed backward. Sue cuts under jfeal and chigoe. 
pulicoset (pu'li-kos), a. [< L. jnilicosus, full of 
fleas, < piilex (pulic-), a flea.] Abounding with 
fleas. 
pulicoust (pu'li-kus), n. Same as pulicose. 
puling (pii'ling), H. [Verbal n. of pule, .] A 
plaintive piping, as of a chicken; a whining 
complaint. 
Let the songs he loud and cheerful, and not chirpings 
orpulings. Bacon, Masques and Triumphs (ed. 1887). 
What 's the news from London, sirrah ? My young mis- 
tress keeps such a puling for a lover. 
Yorkthire Tragedy, I. 1. 
puling (pu'ling),p.. Complaining; whining; 
crying; childish; weak. 
Come, look up bravely ; put this puling passion 
Out of your mind. 
Beau, and Ft., Knight of Malta, ii. 3. 
Where be those puling fears of death, just now expressed 
or affected 1 Lamb, New Year's Eve. 
pulinglv (pii'ling-li), adv. In a puling manner; 
with whining or complaint. 
I do not long to have 
My sleep ta'en from me, and go ptdinyly, 
Like a poor wench had lost her market-money. 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, ill. 1. 
puliolt, . [Also pulioll, pulial, puliall, ult. < L. 
puleium, pulcgium, fleabane, pennyroyal, < pu- 
lex (pulic-), a flea: see Pulex.'] Same as pen- 
nyroyal, 1. 
pulipl-royalt, . [Also puliall royal; < ME. 
nil, ill real, < ML. puleium regale, equiv. to 
. puleium regium, royal fleabane: see puliol 
and royal. Hence, by corruption, pennyroyal.'} 
Same as penni/royal, 1. 
pulish (pu'lish), n. [Native name (f).] The 
Angola ant-thrush, Pitta angolensis. 
pulk 1 (pulk), . [Appar. a contracted dim. of 
l>ool\.~\ A pool; a pond. [Prov. Eng.] 
pulk 2 , pulkna (pulk, pul'kil), . [Lappish.] 
A Laplanders' traveling-sledge, it is built in the 
4837 
wide, with a sharp bow and a square stern. You sit up- 
right against the stern-board, with your legs stretched 
out in the bottom. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 103. 
pulk-hole (pulk'hol), >i. Same aspuflfci. 
This underwood, with the turf in the pulk hole or bog 
lands, . . . constituted absolutely the only fuel at the be 
ginning of the century. A. Jetmpp, Arcady, ii. 
pull (pul), r. [< ME. pullen, < AS. pullian, pull 
(also in comp. dpullian,nuU). = iiG.pulen, pick, 
pluck, pull, tear; ct.Mu. pullen, drink; root un- 
known.] I. trans. 1. To draw or try to draw 
forcibly or with effort; drag; haul; tug: op- 
posed to push : generally with an adverb of di- 
rection, as up, down, on, off, out, back, etc.: as, 
to pull a chair back; to pull down a flag ; to pull 
a bucket out of a well ; to pull off one s coat. 
This Arcite, with ful despltous herte 
Whan he him knew, and hadde his tale herd, 
As fiers as leoun pullede out a sword. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 740. 
So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me ; so hales, and 
pulli me. Shot., Othello, Iv. 1. 144. 
Night, thou imlli-fl the proud Mask auray 
Where-with valne Actors, in this Worlds great Play, 
By Day disguise them. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, I. 
Pull of, pull off the broach of gold. 
And fling the diamond necklace by. 
Tennuum, Lady Clare. 
2. To pluck ; gather by hand : as, to pull flax ; 
to pull flowers. 
He joys to pull the ripened pear. 
Dryden, tr. of Horace's Epodes, ii. 
3. To draw in such a way as to rend or tear; 
draw apart; rip; rend: followed by some 
qualifying word or phrase, such as asunder, in 
pieces, apart : also used figuratively. 
Fearing lest Paul should have been pulled inpieeet. 
Acts xxili. 10. 
It is hardly possible to come into company where you 
do not flnd them pttlliiiy one another to piece*. 
Steele, .Spectator, No. 348. 
4. To extract ; draw, as a tooth or a cork. 
5. To agitate, move, or propel by tugging, row- 
ing, etc.: as, to pull a bell; to pull a boat. 
1 have milled a whale boat In the Pacific, and paddled a 
canoe on Lake Huron. Whyle itrli-ille, White Rose, II. vii. 
May bend the bow or pull the oar. 
WhiUier, Mogg Megone, II. 
pullaile 
(c) To abase ; humble ; degrade. 
Nothing pullrlh dome * mans heart so much as aduer- 
sltie and lacke. Puttenham, Aite of Eng. Poeste, p. 34. 
He pulleth dmme, he setteth up on hy ; 
He gives to this, from that he takes away. 
Speiurr. F. Q., V. II. 41. 
To raise the wretched and pull down the proud. 
Rotcommon, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry. 
The feind no sooner Jesus there did read, 
But Oullt puU'd rfoini his eyes, and fear his head. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, II. 122. 
To pull down the side' , to cause the defeat of the party 
or side on which a person plays. 
If I hold your cards I shall pull down the tide; 
1 am not good at the game. 
Matringer, Great Duke of Florence, IT. 2. 
To pull in one's horns. See horn. To pull one through, 
to extricate one from a difficulty. 
I am very hopeful of your regiment arriving In time to 
pull ut through. 
Phantom Piquet, Cornhlll Mag., Oct., 1888. 
To pull the dead horse. See Aormi . To pull the long- 
bow. Seelonybow. To pull up. (a) To pluck up; tear up, 
as by the roots ; hence, to extirpate ; eradicate ; destroy. 
They shall no more be pulled up out of their land which 
I have given them. Amos ix. 15. 
I observed that they reap their corn In these parts, 
whereas about Damascus they pull it tip by the roots. 
Poeocke, Description of the East, II. i. 142. 
(6) To take to task ; administer reproof or admonition to ; 
put a check upon. (Colloq. ] (c) To arrest and take before 
a court of justice. IColloq.) (d) To bring to a stop by 
means of the reins : as, to pull up a horse when driving or 
riding. Hence () To stop or airest in any course of 
conduct, especially in a bad course. = Syn. 1 To drag 
2. To gather. 
II. intranx. To give a pull; tug; draw with 
strength and force: as, to pull at a rope. 
I haf jenied * sat jokkez of oxen, 
& for my hyjez hem bojt, to bo we haue I mester, 
To see hem pulle in the plow aproche me byhouez. 
Alliterative Form* (ed. Morris), Ii. 68. 
To pull apart, to separate or break by pulling : as, a 
rope will pull apart. To pull for, to row toward : as, 
theypuWcd/orthe ship or the shore. To pull through, 
to get through any undertaking with difficulty. [ColloqTj 
I shall be all right ! I shall pull through, my dear! 
Dicktn*, Bleak House, xxxvil. 
To pull up, to stop in riding or driving by drawing the 
reins; halt; stop. 
The Slugger ptillg up at last for a moment, fairly blown. 
T. lluyhes, Tom Brown at Rugby, 1. 5. 
Mr. Kearney pulled up at the outskirts of the town in 
6-_ ..11. A1MUIIJ ^**I n lljt Mil V 
. lo transport by rowing: as, to pull a pas- front of a small general store, 
senger across the bay. The Century, XXXVIL 602. 
To pull Lady Cramly and her daughter down the river, pull (pul), . [< ME. pul,- < pull, r.] 1. The 
T. Hook, Fathers and Sons, xvii. exercise of drawing power; effort exerted in 
7. In printing, to produce on a printing-press hauling; atug; drawing power or action; force 
worked by hand; hence, to take or obtain by expended in drawing. 
The husbandman, whose costs and pain, 
Lapland Pulk. (From an original in the possession of the 
American Geographical Society.) 
form of a boat, of light materials, covered with reindeer- 
skin. It is drawn by a single reindeer, and is used in 
journeying over the snow in winter. 
These pulkx are shaped very much like a canoe ; they 
are about five feet long, one foot deep, and eighteen inches 
304 
impression in any way: as, to pull a proof. 
The " copy " was quickly put in type, a proof was putted, 
and at loh. 50m. it was placed in my hands, exactly an 
hour after the observations had been made at a station 
nearly 3000 miles away. The Century, XXXVIII. 806. 
8f. To bring down; reduce; abate. 
His rank flesh shall be puU'd with daily fasting. 
Fletcher, Wife for a Month, v. 3. 
9t. To pi uck; fleece; cheat. 
What plover 's that 
They have brought to putt f 
B. Jonson, Staple of News, ii. 1. 
10. In tanning, to remove the wool from (sheep- 
skins), or the hair from (hides). A pulling-knife, 
made of steel with a rather blunt edge, is used, acting 
much on the principle of a scraper. It engages the hair 
without cutting it off, and pulls it out. The skin Is spread, 
with the hair or wool side uppermost, on an Inclined sup- 
port during the process. 
11. To steal; filch. [Thieves' slang.] 
We lived by thieving, and I do still by pulling flesh 
(stealing meat). 
Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, I. 460. 
12. To make a descent upon for the purpose 
of breaking up; raid; seize: as, to pull a gam- 
bling-house: said of police. [Slang.] 13. In 
horse-racing, to check or hold back (a horse) in 
order to keep it from winning: as, the jockey 
was suspected of pulling the horse. [Slang.] 
To pull a face, to draw the countenance into a particu- 
lar expression ; grimace : as, to pull a long /ace (that is, to 
look very serious). 
The Prior and the learned pulled a. face. 
Browning, Fra I.ippo Lippi. 
To pull a finch*. SeejfncAi. To pull down, (a) To 
take down or apart; demolish by separating and remov- 
ing the parts : as, to ptdl dawn a house. 
I'ull not liinrn my palace towers, that are 
So lightly, beautifully built. 
Tennyum, Palace of Art. 
(ft) To subvert; overthrow; demolish. 
In political! affairs, as well as mechanical, it is farre 
easier to pull down then buiM up. 
, Vucall Forrest, p. 104. 
, , 
Whose hopes and helps lie buried in his grain, 
Waiting a happy Spring to ripen full 
His long'd-for harvest to the reapers' pull. 
Beau, and Fl., Four Plays in One, Epil. 
Particles . . . arranging themselves under the influence 
of the pull or gravity of the earth. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXIX. 46. 
An iron bar, . . . one inch square, cooled through 80' 
Fahr., contracts with a pull of fifty tons. 
W. L. Carpenter, Energy in Nature (1st ed.), p. 46. 
2. Exercise in rowing; an excursion in a row- 
boat: as, to have a, ptdl after dinner. [Colloq.] 
3f. A contest; a struggle. 
This wrestling pull between Corineus and Gogmagog. 
R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, p. 2. 
4. That which is pulled. Specifically - (a) The lever 
of a counter-pump or beer-pull. (6) The knob and stem 
of a door-bell ; a bell-pull. 
5. Influence; advantageous hold or claim on 
some one who has influence : as, to have a pull 
with the police ; he has a pull on the governor. 
[Slang.] 
A good feature of the ordinance is the power given to 
the city engineer, . . . who is too often handicapped by 
politicians and contractors who have a pull on the City 
Fathers. The Enyineer, LXV. 392. 
6. A favorable chance; an advantage: as, to 
have the pull over one. [Slang.] 
Do you know, it 's a great putt not having married young. 
Whyte MelmOe, White Rose, II. xxiv. 
The great ptdl that men have over us [women] is that 
they are supposed to do only one thing at a time. 
Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 782. 
7. A drink; a swig: as, to have & pull at the 
brandy-bottle. [Colloq.] 
The other hiccoughed, and sucked In a long pull of his 
hot coffee. Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. ii. 
"Bre'r Torm," he said, after a long ptdl at the pitcher 
of persimmon beer. The Century, XXXVIII. 88. 
8. In printing, a single impression made by one 
pull of the bar of a hand-press Candy-pull. See 
condyl. Dead pull, in meeh., total pressure ; impressed 
force. 
The world is full of institutions which, though they never n11 l1 not , r\tV f f\V ,...,,;,,;;/, V ,.;,,;; 
ought to have been set up, yet, having been set up? ought PUUaUe,, . |Mk., < Or. poulatlte, J . poitldille, 
tint to be rudel> pulled dmm. poultry, < poult, hen, < L. ptftitM, a young am- 
Jlacaulay, Gladstone on church and state, mal, a chicken : see pullet.] Poultry. 
