Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 144
Pudical (a.) (Anat.) Pudic.
Pudicity (n.) Modesty; chastity. -- Howell.
Pudicity. () Chastity; the abstaining from all unlawful carnal commerce or connexion. A married woman or a widow may defend her pudicity as a maid may her virginity. Vide Chastity; Rape.
Pudu (n.) (Zool.) A very small deer ({Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long.
Pued (imp. & p. p.) of Pue.
Puing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pue.
Pue (v. i.) To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds. -- Halliwell.
Pueblo (n.) A communistic
building erected by certain Indian tribes of
Pueblo Indians (Ethnol.), Any tribe or community of Indians living in pueblos. The principal Pueblo tribes are the Moqui, the Zu[~n]i, the Keran, and the Tewan.
Pueblo (n.) A member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called `Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock).
Pueblo (n.) A city in Colorado to the south of Colorado Springs.
Pueblo (n.) A communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States.
Pueblo -- U.S. County in Colorado
Population (2000): 141472
Housing Units (2000): 58926
Land area (2000): 2388.687157 sq. miles (6186.671073 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 9.040340 sq. miles (23.414372 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2397.727497 sq. miles (6210.085445 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.235853 N, 104.623605 W
Headwords:
Pueblo
Pueblo, CO
Pueblo County
Pueblo County, CO
Pueblo, CO -- U.S. city in Colorado
Population (2000): 102121
Housing Units (2000): 43121
Land area (2000): 45.076181 sq. miles (116.746768 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.296224 sq. miles (0.767216 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 45.372405 sq. miles (117.513984 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62000
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 38.266933 N, 104.620393 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 81001 81003 81004 81005 81006 81008
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pueblo, CO
Pueblo
Puefellow (n.) A pewfellow. [Obs.]
Puer (n.) The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning. -- Simmonds.
Puer, () In its enlarged sense this word signifies a child of either sex; though in its restrained meaning it is applied to a boy only.
Puer, () A case once arose which turned upon this question, whether a daughter could take lands under the description of puer, and it was decided by two judges against one that she was entitled. Dy. 337 b. In another case, it was ruled the other way. Rob. 33.
Puerco (n.) [Sp.] A hog.
Puerco beds (Geol.), A name given to certain strata belonging to the earliest Eocene. They are developed in Northwestern New Mexico, along the Rio Puerco, and are characterized by their mammalian remains.
Puerile (a.) Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.
The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. -- De Quincey.
Syn: Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak. See Youthful.
Puerile (a.) Of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing."
Puerile (a.) Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile].
Puerilely (adv.) In a puerile manner; childishly.
Puerileness (n.) The quality of being puerile; puerility.
Puerilities (n. pl. ) of Puerility.
Puerility (n.) The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness. -- Sir T. Browne.
Puerility (n.) That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.
Puerility (n.) The state of a child between infancy and adolescence [syn: childhood, puerility].
Puerility (n.) A property characteristic of a child [syn: childishness, puerility].
Puerility, () civil law. This commenced at the age of seven years, the end of the age of infancy, and lasted till the age of puberty, (q.v.) that is, in females till the accomplishment of twelve years, and in males, till the age of fourteen years fully accomplished. Ayl. Pand. 63.
Puerility, () The ancient Roman lawyers divided puerility into proximus infantiae, as it approached infancy, and into proximus pubertati, as it became nearer to puberty. 6 Toullier, n. 100.
Puerperal (a.) Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.
Puerperal (a.) Relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth.
Puerperous (a.) Bearing children. [R.]
Puet (n.) (Zool.) The pewit.
Puff (n.) 一陣噴煙 A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff. " To every puff of wind a slave." -- Flatman.
Puff (n.) 一陣（氣味，煙霧等） Anything light and filled with air. Specifically:
Puff (n.) 塵菌，羽狀實A puffball.
Puff (n.) 酥皮（英語：puff pastry），也叫鬆塔餅、千層（酥）餅、鬆餅等，是一種光亮、片狀的發酵烘焙糕點 A kind of light pastry.
Puff (n.) 粉撲 A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
Puff (n.) 誇獎，吹噓 An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
Puff adder. (Zool.) (a) Any South African viper belonging to Clotho and allied genera. They are exceedingly venomous, and have the power of greatly distending their bodies when irritated. The common puff adder ({Vipera arietans, or Clotho arietans) is the largest species, becoming over four feet long. The plumed puff adder ({Clotho cornuta) has a plumelike appendage over each eye.
Puff adder. (Zool.) (b) A North American harmless snake ({Heterodon platyrrhinos) which has the power of puffing up its body. Called also hog-nose snake, flathead, spreading adder, and blowing adder.
Puff bird (Zool.), Any bird of the genus Bucco, or family Bucconid[ae]. They are small birds, usually with dull-colored and loose plumage, and have twelve tail feathers. See Barbet (b) .
Puffed (imp. & p. p.) of Puff.
Puffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puff.
Puff (v. i.) 噴出，張開，誇張，充氣，喘氣，驕傲 To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
Puff (v. i.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation. -- South.
Puff (v. i.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase. -- L' Estrange.
Puff (v. i.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. -- Boyle.
Puff (v. i.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
Then came brave Glory puffing by. -- Herbert.
Puff (v. t.) 噴出，張開，誇張，使充氣，喘氣，使驕傲 To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
The clearing north will puff the clouds away. -- Dryden.
Puff (v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
I puff the prostitute away. -- Dryden.
Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
The sea puffed up with winds. -- Shak.
Puff (v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
Puffed up with military success. -- Jowett (Thucyd. )
Puff (v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly. " Puffed with wonderful skill." -- Macaulay.
Puff (a.) 亂誇獎的；自我膨脹的，指很為自己而驕傲的，並且認為自己很重要的 Puffed up; vain. [R.] -- Fanshawe.
Compare: Puffball
Puffball (n.) (Bot.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus ({Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
Puff (a.) Gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" [syn: puff, puffed].
Puff (n.) A short light gust of air [syn: puff, puff of air, whiff].
Puff (n.) A light inflated pastry or puff shell.
Puff (n.) Exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes).
Puff (n.) Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together [syn: quilt, comforter, comfort, puff].
Puff (n.) A soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin [syn: powderpuff, puff].
Puff (n.) Thick cushion used as a seat [syn: ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff, hassock].
Puff (n.) A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly" [syn: puff, drag, pull].
Puff (n.) Forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff" [syn: blow, puff].
Puff (v.) Smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe" [syn: puff, whiff].
Puff (v.) Suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" [syn: puff, drag, draw].
Puff (v.) Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily" [syn: pant, puff, gasp, heave].
Puff (v.) Make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego."
Puff (v.) Praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production" [syn: puff, puff up].
Puff (v.) Speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man."
Puff (v.) To swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" [syn: puff, puff up, blow up, puff out].
Puff (v.) Blow hard and
loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" [syn:
puff, huff, chuff].
Puff (v. t.) To decompress data that has been crunched by
Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program
was actually named ?PUFF?, but these days it is usually packaged with the
encoder. Oppose huff, see {inflate.
Puff, () To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* "PUFF", but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder.
Opposite: huff. [{Jargon File] (1996-10-16)
Puffed (a.) 腫的，腫脹的；【口】（累得）喘不過氣的；puff 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" [syn: puff, puffed].
Puffed (a.) (Of a part of the body) 腫的，腫脹的 Swollen because of an injury or illness.
Puffed (a.) (Informal) 【口】（累得）喘不過氣的 Breathing with difficulty after exertion.
Puffer (n.) One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.
Puffer (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. -- Bouvier.
Puffer (n.) (Zool.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. They are highly poisonous due to the presence of glands containing a potent toxin, tetrodotoxin.
Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan, being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove the poison glands.
Puffer (n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
Puffer (n.) (Dyeing) A kier.
Puffer (n.) Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver [syn: blowfish, sea squab, puffer, pufferfish].
Puffer (n.) Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers [syn: puffer, pufferfish, blowfish, globefish].
PUFFER, () Commerce, contracts. A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to bid it up, who does so accordingly, for the purpose of raising the price upon bona fide bidders.
PUFFER, () This is a fraud which at the choice of the purchaser invalidates the sale. 5 Madd. R. 37, 440; 3 Madd. R. 112; 12 Ves. 483; l Fonb. Eq. 227, n; 2 Kent, Com. 423; 11 Serg. & Rawle, 86; Cowp. 395; 3 Ves. jun. 628; 6 T. R. 642; 2 Bro. C. C. 326; 3 T. R. 93, 95; 1 P. A. Browne, Rep. 346; 2 Hayw. R. 328; Sugd. Vend. 16; 4 Harr. & McH. 282; 2 Dev. 126; 2 Const. Rep. 821;. 3 Marsh. 526.
Puffery (n.) The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.
Puffery (n.) A flattering commendation (especially when used for promotional purposes).
Puffin (n.) (Zool.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.
Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as the horned puffin ({Fratercula corniculata), the tufted puffin ({Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill.
Manx puffin, The Manx shearwater. See under Manx.
Puffin (n.) (Bot.) The puffball.
Puffin (n.) A sort of apple. [Obs.] -- Rider's Dict. (1640).
Compare: Puffball
Puffball (n.) (Bot.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus ({Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
Puffin (n.) Any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills.
Puffiness (n.) The quality or state of being puffy.
Puffiness (n.) An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [syn: swelling, puffiness, lump].
Puffiness (n.) Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation].
Puffing () a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.
Puffing adder. (Zool.) Same as Puff adder (b), under Puff.
Puffing pig (Zool.), The common porpoise.
Puffing (n.) Blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing."
Puffing (n.) An act of forcible exhalation [syn: puffing, huffing, snorting].
Puffingly (adv.) In a puffing manner; with vehement breathing or shortness of breath; with exaggerated praise.
Puff-leg (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
Puff-legged (a.) (Zool.) Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
Puffy (a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very stout, puffy man." -- Thackeray.
Puffy (a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
Puffy (a.) Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt" [syn: bouffant, puffy].
Puffy (a.) Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn: puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid].
Puffy (a.) Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-shore winds"; "gusty winds " [syn: gusty, puffy].
Pug (n.) [Hind. pag foot.] A footprint; a track; as of a boar. [India]
Pugged (imp. & p. p.) of Pug.
Pugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pug.
Pug (v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
Pug (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.
Pug (n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
Pug (n.) A pug mill.
Pug mill, () A kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.
Pug (n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Pug (n.) A name for a monkey. [Colloq.] -- Addison.
Pug (n.) A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] -- C. Kingsley.
Pug (n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] -- Lyly.
Pug (n.) pl. Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Pug (n.) A prostitute. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.
Pug (n.) (Zool.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
Pug (n.) (Zool.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Pug (n.) Small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle [syn: pug, pug-dog].
Pug-faced (a.) Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.
Pug-faced (a.) Having the flat wrinkled face of a pug dog.
Pugger (v. t.) To pucker. [Obs.]
Puggered (a.) Puckered. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Pugging (n.) The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.
Pugging (n.) (Arch.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening.
Pugging (a.) Thieving. [Obs.] -- Shak. Puggry
Pugh (interj.) Pshaw! pish! -- A word used in contempt or disdain.
Pugil (n.) As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Pugilism (n.) The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.
Pugilism (n.) Fighting with the fists [syn: boxing, pugilism, fisticuffs].
Pugilist (n.) [L. pugil.] One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
Pugilist (n.) Someone who fights with his fists for sport [syn: boxer, pugilist].
Pugilistic (a.) Of or pertaining to pugillism.
Pugilistic (a.) Of or relating to pugilism or pugilists; "a pugilistic career."
Pugnacious (a.) Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. --{Pug*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Pug*na"cious*ness, n.
Pugnacious (a.) Tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious].
Pugnacious (a.) Ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance" -- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" [syn: pugnacious, rough].
Pugnacity (n.) Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness.
Pug nose () A short, thick nose; a snubnose.
Puh (interj.) The same as Pugh.
Puisne (a.) Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. [Obs.] " A puisne date to eternity." -- Sir M. Hale.
Puisne (a.) Puny; petty; unskilled. [Obs.]
Puisne (a.) (Law) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. -- Blackstone.
Puisne (n.) One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.
It were not a work for puisnes and novices. -- Bp. Hall.
Puisne. () Since born; the younger; as, a puisne judge, is an associate judge.
Puisny (a.) Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled. [R.]
A puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side. -- Shak.
Puissance (n.) 權力；威勢 Power; strength; might; force; potency. " Youths of puissance." -- Tennyson.
The power and puissance of the king. -- Shak.
Note: In Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, puissance and puissant are usually dissyllables.
Puissance (n.) Power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote."
Puissant (a.) 強有力的；強盛的；有權力的 Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire. " Puissant deeds." -- Milton.
Of puissant nations which the world possessed. -- Spenser.
And worldlings in it are less merciful, And more puissant. -- Mrs. Browning.
Puissant (a.) Powerful.
Puissantly (adv.) In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great strength.
Puissantness (n.) The state or quality of being puissant; puissance; power.
Puit (n.) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring. [Obs.]
The puits flowing from the fountain of life. -- Jer. Taylor.
Puke (a.) Of a color supposed to be between black and russet. -- Shak.
Note: This color has by some been regarded as the same with puce; but Nares questions the identity.
Puked (imp. & p. p.) of Puke.
Puking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puke.
Puke (v. i.) To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. -- Shak.
Puke (v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
Puke (n.) A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
Puke (n.) A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git].
Puke (n.) The matter ejected in vomiting [syn: vomit, vomitus, puke, barf].
Puke (v.) Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down].