purveyance 
2. The act of purveying, providing, furnishing, 
or procuring; supply: ipeeUloAlly, the procur- 
ing of provisions or victuals for a number of 
persons. 
The /iiiriirniiiu-,- therof llth you vppon, 
Auaunce you now, (or hys louc in trinite, 
So Uut thys contrt* well purueyed be. 
/,'.... ../ I'niienay (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 2378. 
The Commoni have their Commodities dally taken from 
them fur thf 1'uneuanee ot the King's Houshold, (or 
which they are not paid. baker, Chronicles, p. 190. 
3. That which is purveyed or prepared, as pro- 
vision, supplies, etc. 
Philip for that may mad purueiance redy, 
With (oik o( gode any to UOIHT com in ny. 
Jiub. of Rruiuit, p. 307. 
Therfore alle the purveyance that he hadde ordeyned 
to make the Temple with, he toke it Salomon ilia Sone ; 
and he made It HandenUe, Travels, p. 87. 
O( vitaille and of other purceiaunce. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 176. 
And o(ter to his Pallace be them bringes, . . . 
Whence, mounting up, they fynd purveyaunce meet 
Of all that royall Princes court became. 
Spemer, K. Q., I. xii. 13. 
4f. Preparation. 
Folks ben ryts sore afred that they wel don moche harm 
this tuiiuer, but if tiler be made rytj grett purci/ant ajens 
hem. Potion Lettert, I. 116. 
5. In law, the royal prerogative or right of pre- 
emption, by which the king was privileged to 
buy provisions and necessaries for the use of 
his household at an appraised value, in prefer- 
ence to all his subjects, and even without the 
consent of the owner; also, the right of im- 
pressing horses and carriages and the enforce- 
ment of personal labor, etc., for the use of the 
sovereign a right abolished by the statute 12 
Oharles II., c. 24. 
The treasurer, ... by the exercise of the right of pur- 
veyance, . . . drew down popular hatred on the cause 
which was reduced to such expedients. 
Stutibt, Const Hist, 363. 
purveyor (per-va'or), . [Early mod. E. also 
pnurecyor; < ME. piirveoitr, < OF. porveor, par- 
reour, purreoitr, pourreur, F.potirvoyeur (= Sp. 
proreedor = Pg. protedor = It. pravveditore), a 
provider, purveyor, < porreir, etc., purvey: see 
purrey. Cf.proveditor,prore(lor.] 1. One who 
purveys or provides; specifically, one who pur- 
veys victuals, or whose business it is to make 
provision for the table ; one who supplies eat- 
ables for a number of persons ; a caterer. 
Our purcfi/org are herein said to have their provision 
from the popish shambles. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, viii. 4. 
I love the sea ; she is my fellow-creature, 
My careful purveyor; she provides me store. 
Quartet, Emblems, v. 6. 
2. An officer who formerly provided or exact- 
ed provision for the king's household. 
The statute of Edward III. was ordered to be enforced 
on the royal purveyor*. Stubbt, Const. Hist,, 340. 
3. One who provides the means of gratifying 
lust; a procurer or procuress ; a pimp; a bawd. 
This stranger, ravished at his good fortune, is Introduced 
to some imaginary title : for this purveyor has her repre- 
sentatives of some of the finest ladies. Adduon. 
purview (per'vu), . [< OF. ponrrieu, purview, 
< pourren, F. ponrru, provided, pp. of ponrrnir, 
provide, purvey: see purvey.'] 1. A condition, 
provision, or disposition ; in lair, that part of a 
statute which begins with the words "Be H en- 
acted," as distinguished from the preamble, and 
hence the whole body of provisions. 2. Field, 
scope, sphere, or limits of anything, as of a law, 
authority, etc. : as, thepitrrieic of science ; facts 
that come under the purview of consciousness. 
If any fair or market hare been kept in any church-yard, 
these are profanations within the purview of several stat- 
utes ; and those you are to present. 
Bacon, charge upon the Commission (or the Verge. 
The phenomena he describes fortunately fall within the 
purrinr of the association over whose deliberations you 
preside. Science, VTL 166. 
All nations of all past age* have confeuedly founded 
their states upon their religions. This Is true of Egypt, 
Oreece, and Rome, of China, Japan, and all else within 
the purview of history. 
A. A. Hodge, In New Princeton Rev., III. 37. 
It Is only by becoming familiar with forms so utterly 
dissimilar from those we have hitherto been conversant 
with, that we perceive how narrow Is the purview that is 
content with one form or one passing fashion. 
J. Ftrgvaon, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 404. 
PUS (pun), H. [= F. 8p. Pg. It. put, < I... fii" 
(pur-) = Gr. mini = Skt. pSya, matter, pus. < 
i/ i>" (Skt. y' imy) in L. puff re, stink. From L. 
PHI are also nit. purulnit, ^ii/i/inriiti', etc.; and 
from the same root are /muni, /m//</. /iiiii-ni. 
etc.] An inflammatory exudation composed 
of modified white bl.. oil-cells (pun-corpuscles), 
4862 
with more or less of the debris and of the pro- 
liferating cells of the solid tissues of the part, 
and a liquid plasma. The formation of pus Is called 
mppuration. A collection of pus within the solid tissues 
is called an abteett. A suppurating open sore is an ulcer. 
Ichorous pus. Same as ichor. Laudable pus, thick, 
creamy pus such as may he formed in the progressing re- 
pair of wounds. Pus-cells or -corpuscles, the leu- 
cocytes of pus. Pus-disease, pyemia. Sanious pus, a 
somewhat thin, often ill-smelling, greenish or reddish 
pus, as discharged from an Ill-conditioned ulcer. 
pusant, pusanet, . Same MpteM*. 
Puseyism (pu'zi-izm), n. [< Pusey (see def.) 
+ -ism.] Theprinciples and teachings charac- 
teristic of a High-church party in the Church 
of England, originating in Oxford University 
in the early part of the nineteenth century : so 
called from one of the leaders in this so-called 
Oxford movement, l)r. E. B. Pusey, professor 
of Hebrew in the university. See Tractarian- 
ism, ritualism. 
Ecclesiastical sentiment, which, in a morbidly exagger- 
ated condition, forms one of the principal elements of 
Putci/ism. Kutkin, Elements of Drawing, iii., note. 
Puseyistic (pu-zi-is'tik), a. [< Puseyist + -ic.~\ 
Of or pertaining to Puseyism or Tractarianism. 
PuseyiStical (pu-zi-is'ti-kal), a. [< Puseyistic 
+ -al.} Same as Puseyisttc. 
Puseyite (pu'zi-it), n. [< Pusey (see Puseyism) 
+ -i<e 2 .] An adherent of the Oxford move- 
ment as advocated by Pusey (see Puseyism); 
hence, a ritualist. 
Puteyitet and ritualists, aiming to reinforce ecclesias- 
ticisra, betray a decided leaning towards archaic print as 
well as archaic ornaments. 
, //. Spencer, Study of Sociol., p. 107. 
When I go into a house where there Is a pretty engrav- 
ing of surpliced choristers, with an inscription in red let- 
ters underneath probably a scrap of Latin I know that 
the master of the house, or its mistress, Is a Puseyite. 
P. G. Hamerton, Thoughts about Art, ix. 
push 1 (push), r. [Earlv mod. E. also posse; < 
ME. pussen, possen, < OF. pousser, poulser, F. 
pousser = Pr. pulsar = Sp. Pg. pulsar = It. pul- 
sare, < L. pulsare, strike, beat, drive, push, freq. 
of pellere, pp. pulsus, strike, drive, push: see 
puteel.] I. trans. 1. To strike with a thrust- 
ing motion ; thrust, as with a sword ; thrust or 
gore, as with the horns. 
If the ox shall puth a manservant or maidservant, . . . 
the ox shall be stoned. Ex. xxi. 32. 
2. To thrust forcibly against for the purpose 
of moving or impelling in n direction other 
than that from which the pressure is applied : 
exert a thrusting, driving, or impelling pres- 
sure upon; drive or impel by pressure; shove: 
opposed to ilraic : as, to push a hand-cart; to 
push a thing up, down, away, etc. 
The see by nyghte as any torche brende 
For wodc, and posteth hym now up now doun. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 2420. 
Pvth him out of doors. Shale., As you Like it, ill. 1. 15. 
Waters forcing way 
Sidelong had puth'd a mountain from his seat. 
Milton, P. L., vl. 197. 
They walked out, or drove out, or were pushed about In 
bath-chairs. Dickcnt, Pickwick, xxxvi. 
3. To impel in general ; drive ; urge. 
We are solicited so powerfully by evil objects without, 
and pufhed on so violently by evil inclinations within, that 
It Is impossible but that both these should now and then 
prevail. Bp. Attertmry, Sermons, IL iv. 
4. To press or urge; advance or extend by 
persistent or diligent effort or exertion : as, to 
push on a work. 
He had a true British determination to puth his way In 
the world. George KIM. Mill on the KIoss, i'i. 1. 
I had Intended to puth my excursion further, but, not 
being quite well, I was compelled to return. 
Darwin, Voyage of Beagle, I. 171. 
To say at the end of the second year of the war the line 
dividing the contestants at the East was pwthed north of 
Maryland . . . would have been discouraging indeed. 
If. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 40(1. 
5. To prosecute or carry on with energy or 
enterprise ; use every means to extend and ad- 
vance: as, to push one's business; to pmlt tin- 
sale of a commodity. 
We may puth the commerce, but the piulanj must be 
done In South America, not in Washington. 
The Century, XL. 318. 
6. To press hard. 
We are puthed for an answer. Su\fl. 
= Syn. 1. To hustle, Jostle, elbow, crowd, force. See thnut. 
H. inlrnnx. 1. To thrust, as with the horns 
or with a sword ; hence, to make an attack. 
At the time of the end shall the king of the south ntwA 
at him. Dan. xl. 40. 
None shall dare 
With -hortciied sword to stab In closer war, . . . 
N..I ,nah with biting point. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., III. 511. 
pusher 
2. To exercise or put forth a thrusting or im- 
pelling pressure; use steady force in moving 
something in a direction the opposite of that 
implied in the word ilnnr : as, to puxh with all 
one's might. 3. To advance or proceed with 
persistence or unflagging effort; force one's 
way ; press eagerly or persistently ; hasten ; 
usually with mi, forward, etc.: as, to push on 
at a rapid pace. 
The se blgan to potte 
Rljt in to Westerneate. 
Hi strike sell and maste 
Anil ankc! < gunne caste. 
King Uorn (E. E. T. S.). 1. 1011. 
Deserted, surrounded, outnumbered, and with every- 
thing at stake, he (Cllve) did not even deign to stand on 
the defensive, but puthed boldly Jormtrd to the attack. 
Macaulay, Lord Cllve. 
4. To sit abaft an oar and propel a boat with 
forward strokes: as, to push down a stream. 
push 1 (push), n. [Early mod. E. also pouxhe; 
< push 1 , r. In sense 6 the word is appar. the 
same (an ' eruption ') ; it cannot be, as some sug- 
gest, connected with pustule, or with F. pochr, a 
pocket.] 1. A thrust; the exercise of a driv- 
ing or impelling thrust: the application of 
pressure intended to overturn or set in motion 
in the direction in which the force or pressure 
is applied; a shove: as, to give a thing or a 
person a push. 
Yet so great was the puissance of his jmuft 
That n "in his sadle quite he did him beare. 
Spenser, K. 1)., I. 111. 35. 
Notwithstanding, with an incredible courage they ad- 
vanced to I lir /,/..;, of the Pike with the defendants. 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 1. 
I'm pleased with my own work ; Jove was not more 
With Infant nature, when his spacious hand 
Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas 
To give it the first puxh, and see ft roll 
Along the vast abyss. ttryaen, Cleomenes, L 1. 
2. An assault or attack; a forcible onset; a 
vigorous effort ; a stroke ; a blow. 
Through the prowesse of our owne souldlours practysed 
in (ormer conflicts, they were not able to ahyde one puthc 
of us, but by and by tourned their backs. 
Guiding, tr. of Cesar, fol. 78. 
Here might you see the strong walls shaking and falling 
with the pushet of the yron ramme. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 150. 
Exact reformation is not perfected at the first puth. 
Milton, Reformation In Eng., i. 
3. Aii emergency ; a trial ; an extremity. 
This honest chambermaid, 
That help'd all at a puth. 
J/uMWon, Chaste .Maid, T. I. 
Tis common to talk of dying for a friend, but when it 
comes to theprwA, it is no more than tiilk. 
Sir It. L' Estrange. 
4. Persevering energy ; enterprise. [Colloq.] 
Bysshe Shelley was a gentleman of the old school, with 
a dash of New World cleverness, putli, and niainmon-wor- 
shlp. K. Dmrden, .Shelley, I. 2. 
Where every one recognizes that it Is either money 
or push which secured the place that should have been 
awarded to merit. The Century, XXXVIIL 156. 
5. A button, pin, or similar contrivance to be 
pushed in conveying pressure: as, the electric 
Tlir spring puth, which was secured higher up on the 
door, was too much of a toy affair, and could be tampered 
with by patients so Inclined. Set. Amer., N. S., I.X. 313. 
6. A pustule; a pimple. [Obs. or prov. Eng.] 
Some tyme blacke pmithet or hoyles, with Inflammation 
and moch peyne. Sir T. Elyot, Castle of Health, IIL 7. 
It was a proverb amongst the Grecians, that " He that 
was pralKed to his hurt should have a puth rise upon his 
nose." Bacon, Praise (ea. 1887X 
Push Of an arch. Same as thnut of an arch (which see, 
under thnut). 
push 2 ! (push), interj. Same as pish. 
/-//' I take't unkindly. I' faith. 
Middleton, Your Five Gallant*, IL 1. 
push-a-piket (push'a-pik), n. An old game. 
Since only those at kick and cuff 
Are heat that cry they have enough ; 
But when at pu*h a pike we play 
With beauty. lu> shall win the day? 
HudOmu Kedirinu (1707). (Kttret.) 
push-button (push'but'n), M. See button. 4 (<). 
push-car (push'kKr). n. 1. A light four-wheeled 
platform-car used on railways by track-repair- 
ers in moving tools and materials. 2. A car 
used at a ferry-slip to connect an engine with a 
train on a ferry-boat. [V. 8.] 
pusher (push'i'-r). . 1. One who or that which 
pushes; one who drives forward. 2. In /<//.. 
a stem or rod, usually with a button on the outer 
end. by which, from the outside of an inclosed 
>pacc, son n 'movement or result is: ..... oniplished 
within (lie -.pace by pressing upon the button 
or outer extremity of the rod to push it toward 
