pnnlsher 
For he [the Sultan] is of no bloody disposition, . yet 
' i."! unrelentin B* punisher of offences, even in his own 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 57. 
he 
houshold. 
4849 
He was clad In the white dress of a Punjabee. 
Proc. Soc. Psych. Keteanh (LondonX IX. 368. 
2. The dialect of the Punjab, a variety of 
Hindi. 
puntilla 
Whatever were the bons mots of Cicero, of which few 
nve come down to us, it Is certain that I 'Icero was an in- 
So should I purchase dear 
Short intermission bought with double smart 
Milton, P. L., | V . 103. punjum (pun'jum), n. [E. Ind.J Same as pan- Dun *i / ^^ 
pontt; punt = 
punishment (pun'ish-ment), n. [< punish + 
-mcnt.} 1. The act of punishing; the inflic- I 28* J i???**>i* g 
tion of pain or chastisement. 
How many sorts of fears possess a sinner's mind? fears 
of disappointments, fears of discovery, and fears of tttin- 
"kment. Stillinyjbet, Sermons, I. x. 
We now come to speak of wmishment: which, in the 
sense in which it is here considered, is an artificial conse- 
quence, annexed by political authority to an offensive act 
in one instance ; in the view of putting a stop to the pro- 
duction of events similar to the obnoxious part of Its 
natural consequences in other instances 
Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xii. 36. 
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punish- 
ment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower 
of the pleasure which concealed it. 
Emerson, Compensation. 
It is impossible to separate that moral indignation which 
expresses itself in punishment from the spirit of self-re- 
dress for wrongs. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 20 a. 
2. Pain, suffering, loss, confinement, or other 
penalty inflicted on a person for a crime or of- 
fense, by the authority to which the offender 
is subject ; a penalty imposed in the enforce- 
ment or application of law. 
Whatsoever hath been said or written on the other side 
all the late statutes, which inflict capital punishmeiU 
[ A PP- ^duced from spunk. 
rotten wood.] 1. Wood decayed 
B influence of a fungus or otherwise, 
and used like tinder; touchwood. 2. Tinder 
' >""' < A8.p= D. 
a " 4 ' ferr y-boat, 
through the influence of a fungus or otherwise ^"'^"^"i j.. ^um-uonomea, square-ended. 
j j IM_- ,_._.,_... . , mast less boat of varying size and use. Thesmaller 
. 3. A prostitute; a courtezan. 
This pun* is one of Cupid's carriers. 
Shot., M. W. of W., II. 2. HI. 
punka (pung'kft), n. [Also punkah; < Hind. 
pankha, a fan (cf. Pers. pankan, a fan), akin to 
pankha, a wmg, feather, and lo paksha (< 8kt. 
paksha), a wing.] In the East Indies, a fan 
of any kind; specifically, a swinging screen 
consisting of cloth stretched on a rectangular 
frame, hung from the ceiling and kept in motion 
low streams, and still larger ones are used as lighters and 
scows. 
As for Pamphuus, ... of his making Is the picture of 
V lysses in a punt or small bottom. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxv. 10. 
They came on a wicked old gentleman breaking the laws 
of his country, and catching perch in close time out of a 
//. Kinydrii, Kavenshoe, Ixlv. 
2. [< puHfl, t>., 3.] la foot-bull, a kick of the 
ball as it is dropped from the hands and before 
it strikes the ground. 
by a servant, or in some cases by machinery, punt 1 (punt), . K <' 1 Tn 
by means of which the air of an apartment is conveyinapunf 
agitated. - J 
The cool season was Just closing. Punka fans were 
coming into play again. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 401. 
The day following I w 
of an English law 
F. M. Crawford, Mr. Isaacs, I. 
conscience, but the repressing of the peril of the state. 
Bacon, Charge upon the Commission for the Verge. 
So this Prophet [Amos] tells us that the true account 
of all Gods punishments is to be fetched from the sins of 
the people. StiUingfleet, Sermons, I. i. 
I proceed, In the next place, to consider the general na- 
ture of punishments, which are evils or inconveniences con- 
sequent upon crimes and misdemeanours ; being devised, 
denounced, and inflicted, by human laws, in consequence 
of disobedience or misbehaviour in those to regulate whose 
conduct such laws were respectively made. 
Blackstone, Com., IV. I. 
3. Pain or injury inflicted, in a general sense ; 
especially, in colloquial use, the pain inflicted 
by one pugilist on another in a prize-fight. 
Tom Sayers could not take punuhmen 
lorm olpumpkm. 
punkisht (pung'kish), a. 
Meretricious. 
.oquial 
[< punk + -is/il.] 
The credit of a good house is made not to consist In In- 
ward hospitality, but in outward walls. These puiikuh 
outsiders beguile the needy traveller; he thinks there 
cannot be so many rooms in a house and never a one to 
harbour a poor stranger. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 28. 
punklingt (pungk'ling), 
A little or young punk. 
Canonical punishments. See canonical. = Svn. 2. Chas- 
tisement, correction, discipline. See chastise. 
punitiont (pu-nish'on), n. [< M.E.pu>iicion,pu- 
nyssyon = F. punition = Pr. punicio = Sp. pu- 
nicion = Vg.punifffo = It. punizione, < LJj.puni- 
tio(n-), a punishment, < L. punire, pp. punitus, 
punish: see punish."] Punishment. 
The dole that thou haste for Gaffray thy sone, 
That the monkesbrende so disordinaitly, 
Knowith thys, that it was for punicion 
Taken vppou tho of religion hy. 
Rom. o/Partenay (E. E. T. S.X 1. 3871. 
The translation of kingdoms and governments by such 
wonderful methods and means, for the punition of tyrants 
and the vices of men, of which history abounds with ex- 
amples [is the decree of a most admirable disposer). 
Evelyn, True Religion, I. 85. 
punitive (pu'ni-tiv), a. [< OF. punitif = Pg. 
It. punitivo, < L. punire, pp. punitus, punish: 
8ee^>ttHwA.] Pertaining to or involving punish- 
ment; awarding or inflicting punishment: as, 
punitive law or justice. 
The punitive part of repentance is resolved on, and be- 
gun, and put forward into good degrees of progress. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), I. 70. 
The penal code then would consist principally of puni- 
tiae laws, involving the imperative matter of the whole 
i. [< punk H 
See punk, 3. 
And then earn'd your royal a day hy squiring punks and 
puiMiiufs up and down the city? 
Fletcher (and another). Love's Cure, II. 1. 
punk-oak (pungk'ok), . The water-oak, Qucr- 
CUK aquHtica. 
punky (pung'ki), w. ; pi. punkies (-kiz). [Origin 
obscure.] A minute dipterous insect common 
in the Adirondack region of New York and in 
the Maine woods, which bites severely and is 
a great nuisance to travelers and sportsmen. 
It has not been determined entomologically, 
but is probably a midge of the genus Cerato- Pint- 2 (punt), r. i. 
pogo*. 
as, he was punt- 
ed across the riv- 
er. Hence 2. 
To propel as a 
punt is usual- 
ly propelled, by 
pushing with a 
pole against the 
bed of the water ; 
force along by 
pushing: as, to 
punt a boat. 
3. In foot-ball, 
to kick, as the 
ball, when it is 
dropped from the hands, and before it touches 
the ground ; give a punt to. 4. In general, to 
knock; hit. 
To see a stout rlamand of fifty or thereabouts solemnly 
puntiny, by the aid of a small tambourine, a minute india- 
rubber ball to another burgher of similar aspect, which 
is the favourite way in which all ages and sexes take exer- 
cise on thedlgue, is enough to restore one's faith in human 
" ature - Contemporary Ren., XLIX. 52. 
II. in trans. To hunt for aquatic game in a 
punt and with a punt-gun (which see). 
(punt), B. [= F. ponte, a punt, < Sp. 
, a point, a pip at cards, < t. puncium, 
a point: see point."] A point in the game of 
Sandy beaches or gravelly points are liable to swarm 
with midges or punkies. Sportsman's Oaiettter, p. 642. 
Punning. 
[< F. pouter, punt (at cards), 
< ponte, punt : see punft, .] To play at basset 
or ombre. 
Another Is for setting up an assembly for basset, where 
none shall be admitted to punt that have not taken the 
""'hs. Addison, Freeholder, No. 8. 
Wretch that I was ! how often have I swore 
When WInnall tally 'd, I would punt no more ! 
Pope, The Basset Table. 
He was tired of hawking, and fishing, and hunting 
Of billiards, short-whist, chicken-hazard, and punting. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 262. 
punnage (pun'aj), n. 
[Kare.J 
The man who maintains that he derives gratification 
from any such chapters of punnage as Hood was in the 
daily practice of committing to paper should not be cred- 
ited upon oath. Poe, Marginalia, clxxvll. (Dames.) 
punner 1 (pun'er), n. [< pun*- + -<Ti.] One 
who or that which puns or rams earth into a Ptmt 3 (punt), n. Same as punty, pontil. 
hole; specifically, a tool for ramming earth, puntee (puu'te), n. Same &s punty, pontil. 
[Eng.] 
The hole should not be hastily filled up, but ample time 
be given to the punnrrt to do their share of the work. 
Preece and Sivewright, Telegraphy, p. 198. 
punner 2 (pun'er), n. [<pun'^ + -er^."] One who 
makes puns; a punster. Swift. 
punnet (pun'et), n. A small but broad shallow 
basket for displaying fruit or flowers. 
punter 1 "(pun'ter), . [< pu'nft ~+~-erl.] 1. 
One who fishes or hunts in a punt. 
He ... caught more fish In an hour than all the rest of 
the punters did In three. T. Hook, Gilbert Gnrney, 111. 
2. One who punts a boat. 
Wherever yon go, you see the long, straight boat with 
Its passengers luxuriously outstretched on the cushions in 
number of civil lawsT along "with "which would" probkbiy pu n 15n7pun r in"e)7."["Verbai''rT "of'o2 1 <> his long pole. 
SS&SfiZ apper - The prfctfce of nYa'kingW ' J 
Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xvii. 29, note. 
Punitive damages. Same as exemplary damages (which 
see, under damage). 
punitory (pu'ni-to-ri), a. [< LL. as if *punito- 
rius, < puiiitor, a punisher, < L. punire, pp. puni- 
tus, punish: see punish.'] Punishing, ortemling 
to punishment ; punitive. 
punter 2 (pun'ter)j n. 
Punjabee, Punjabi (pun-ja'be), n. [< Hind. 
Pers. I'anjabi. < Pers. panj, five, + ab, water, 
river.] 1. A native or an inhabitant of the 
dia. 
Several worthy gentlemen and critics have applied to 
me to give my censure of an enormity which has been IT 
viv'd after being long suppressed, and Is call'd punning. 
Steele, Taller, No. 32. 
punnintf(pun'ing),j>.o. [Ppr.of/(wn 2 ,r.] Given 
to making puns; exhibiting a pun or play on 
words: as, a punning reply punning anna, In 
her., same as allusive anns (which see^ under orm2). 
" rreg. < n 2 + 
[Bare.] 
have been better instructed in the Greek 
Pope. (Jodrell.) 
punquettot, [<.punk + It. dim. -etto."] Same 
&s punk, 3. [Slang.] 
the stern, the punter walking from the bow and pushing 
The Century, XXXVIII. 488. 
[< punft + -!.] One 
who marks the points in the game of basset ; a 
marker. 
There used to be grown men in London who loved . . 
to accompany lads to the gaming-table, and perhaps hare 
an understanding with the punters. 
Thackeray, Virginians, xxx. (Dane*.) 
Some of the punters are professional gamblers, others 
are mere general swindlers. 
Fortnightly Ret., N. 8., XXXIX. 324. 
Fishing from 
large 
punt-fishing (punt'fish'ing), n. 
be inflicted, and does not merely permit it, is as truly im- 
perative as the other; only it is punitory besides, which 
the other is not. 
Beittham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xix. 2, note. [Slanirl 
Mfc, i. iiang.j punt (which see). 
Marry, to his cockatrice, or punquetto, half a dozen taf- puntil (pun'til), n. Same as pontil. 
fata gowns or satin kirtles in a pair or two of months nrmtilla Cnnn til'K^ , rif r.f ^ 
why, they are nothing. B. Jo,uo\i, Cynthia's Revels, II. 1. P }]* l . "J J^,,/, ? Lacework'' ! h - 1 ,, ' 
Punjab (or Panjab), literally the country of the punster (pun'ster). n. [< prnft + -ster.] One rvWar^toom&mineolor^reli 
five rivers, in extreme northwestern British In- who puns or is skilled in punning; a quibbler lines or points resembling lace: applied espe- 
cially to such work of Spanish origin. 
on words. 
