Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 148
Punto (n.) (Fencing) A point or hit.
Punto diritto [It.], A direct stroke or hit.
Punto reverso [It. riverso reverse], A backhanded stroke. -- Halliwell. "Ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso"! -- Shak.
Compare: Pontee
Pontee (n.) [F. pontil, pontis.] (Glass Making) An iron rod used by glass makers for manipulating the hot glass; -- called also, puntil, puntel, punty, and ponty. See Fascet.
Punty (n.) (Glass Making) See Pontee.
Puny (a.) 微小的；弱小的；次要的 Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.
A puny subject strikes at thy great glory. -- Shak.
Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed. -- Keble.
Puny (n.) A youth; a novice. [R.] -- Fuller.
Puny (a.) Inferior in strength or significance; "a puny physique"; "puny excuses".
Puny (a.) (Used especially of persons) Of inferior size [syn: {puny}, {runty}, {shrimpy}].
Puoy (n.) Same as Poy, n., 3.
Pup (n.) A young dog; a puppy.
Pup (n.) a young seal.
Pupped (imp. & p. p.) of Pup.
Pupping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pup.
Pup (v. i.) To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
Pupae (n. pl. ) of Pupa.
Pupas (n. pl. ) of Pupa.
Pupa (n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Pupal (a.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.
Pupate (v. i.) To become a pupa.
Pupation (n.) the act of becoming a pupa.
Pupe (n.) A pupa.
Pupelo (n.) Cider brandy.
Pupigerous (a.) Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.
Pupil (n.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.
Pupil (n.) A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
Pupil (n.) A person under a guardian; a ward.
Pupil (n.) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
Pupilage (n.) The state of being a pupil.
Pupillarity (n.) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.
Pupillary (a.) Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.
Pupillary (a.) Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye.
Pupillometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.
Pupipara (n. pl.) A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.
Pupiparous (a.) Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvae, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.
Pupiparous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pupipara.
Pupivora (n. pl.) A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.
Pupivorous (a.) Feeding on the pupae of insects.
Puplican (n.) Publican.
Puppet (n.) 木偶；玩偶：傀儡，受他人操縱的人（或集團） A small image in the human form; a doll.
Puppet (n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. -- Pope.
Puppet (n.) One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt. -- Sir W. Scott.
Puppet (n.) (Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Puppet master. Same as Puppetman.
Puppet play, A puppet show.
Puppet player, One who manages the motions of puppets.
Puppet show, A mock drama performed by puppets moved by wires.
Puppet valve, A valve in the form of a circular disk, which covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away from the seat while remaining parallel with it, -- used in steam engines, pumps, safety valves, etc. Its edge is often beveled, and fits in a conical recess in the seat when the valve is closed. See the valves shown in Illusts. of Plunger pump, and Safety valve, under Plunger, and Safety.
Puppet (n.) A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer [syn: puppet, marionette].
Puppet (n.) A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature, tool, puppet].
Puppet (n.) A doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers.
Puppetish (a.) Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet.
Puppetman (n.) A master of a puppet show.
Puppetry (n.) Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.
Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. -- Chambers.
Puppetry (n.) The art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows.
Puppetry (n.) A stilted dramatic performance (as if by puppets).
Puppies (n. pl. ) of Puppy.
Puppy (n.) The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.
Puppy (n.) A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person.
Puppied (imp. & p. p.) of Puppy.
Puppying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puppy.
Puppy (v. i.) To bring forth whelps; to pup.
Puppyhood (n.) The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.
Puppyish (a.) Like a puppy.
Puppyism (n.) Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.
Purred (imp. & p. p.) of Pur.
Purring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pur.
Pur (v. i.) To utter a low, murmuring, continued sound, as a cat does when pleased.
Pur (v. t.) To signify or express by purring.
Pur (n.) The low, murmuring sound made by a cat to express contentment or pleasure.
Purana (n.) One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.
Puranic (a.) Pertaining to the Puranas.
Purbeck beds () The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oolitic group. See the Chart of Geology.
Purbeck stone () A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.
Purblind (a.) Wholly blind.
Purblind (a.) Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.
Purcelane (n.) Purslane.
Purchasable (a.) 可買的；可收買的 Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt.
Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of things exchanged. -- Locke.
Purchasable (a.) Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" [syn: corruptible, bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal].
Purchasable (a.) Available for purchase; "purchasable goods"; "many houses in the area are for sale" [syn: purchasable, for sale].
Purchased (imp. & p. p.) of Purchase.
Purchasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purchase.
Purchase (v. t.) 買，購買；贏得，獲得，努力取得；用起重裝置舉起（或移動） To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. -- Chaucer.
That loves the thing he can not purchase. -- Spenser.
Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. -- Shak.
His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased. -- Shak.
Purchase (v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. -- Gen. xxv. 10.
Purchase (v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends. -- Shak.
A world who would not purchase with a bruise? -- Milton.
Purchase (v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit. [Obs.]
Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. -- Shak.
Purchase (v. t.) (Law) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
Purchase (v. t.) (Law) To buy for a price.
Purchase (v. t.) To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.
Purchase (v. i.) To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self. [Obs.]
Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage. -- Ld. Berners.
Purchase (v. i.) To acquire wealth or property. [Obs.]
Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast. -- J. Webster.
Purchase (n.) 買，購買 [U] [C]；所購之物 [C]；緊抓，緊繫 The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything. [Obs.]
I'll . . . get meat to have thee, Or lose my life in the purchase. -- Beau. & Fl.
Purchase (n.) The act of seeking and acquiring property.
Purchase (n.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance. -- Franklin.
Purchase (n.) That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition. -- Chaucer. B. Jonson.
We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda. -- De Foe.
A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye. -- Shak.
Purchase (n.) That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent. "The scrip was complete evidence of his right in the purchase." -- Wheaton.
Purchase (n.) Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.
A politician, to do great things, looks for a power -- what our workmen call a purchase. -- Burke.
Purchase (n.) (Law) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. -- Blackstone.
Purchase criminal, Robbery. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Purchase money, The money paid, or contracted to be paid, for anything bought. -- Berkeley.
Worth [so many] years' purchase, or At [so many] years' purchase, A phrase by which the value or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time required for the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought the estate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one's life is
Not worth a day's purchase, In the same as saying one will not live a day, or is in imminent peril.
Purchase (n.) The acquisition of something for payment; "they closed the purchase with a handshake".
Purchase (n.) Something acquired by purchase.
Purchase (n.) A means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; "he could get no purchase on the situation".
Purchase (n.) The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever [syn: leverage, purchase].
Purchase (v.) Obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store" [syn: buy, purchase] [ant: sell].
Purchaser (n.) One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.
Purchaser (n.) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance.
Purdah (n.) A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.
Pure (a.) 純粹的，不攙雜的；道地的；純淨的；潔淨的；清澈的 Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
The pure fetters on his shins great. -- Chaucer.
A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. -- I. Watts.
Pure (a.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons. "Keep thyself pure." -- 1 Tim. v. 22.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience. -- 1 Tim. i. 5.
Pure (a.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions. "Pure religion and impartial laws". -- Tickell.
"The pure, fine talk of Rome". -- Ascham.
Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records. --Macaulay.
Pure (a.) (Script.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord. -- Lev. xxiv. 6.
Pure (a.) (Phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
{Pure-impure}, Completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." -- Fuller.
{Pure blue}. (Chem.) See {Methylene blue}, under {Methylene}.
{Pure chemistry}. See under {Chemistry}.
{Pure mathematics}, That portion of mathematics which treats of the principles of the science, or contradistinction to applied mathematics, which treats of the application of the principles to the investigation of other branches of knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. See {Mathematics}. -- Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. )
{Pure villenage} (Feudal Law), A tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. --Blackstone.
Syn: Unmixed; clear; simple; real; true; genuine; unadulterated; uncorrupted; unsullied; untarnished; unstained; stainless; clean; fair; unspotted; spotless; incorrupt; chaste; unpolluted; undefiled; immaculate; innocent; guiltless; guileless; holy.
Pure (a.) Free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen" [ant: {impure}].
Pure (a.) Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: {arrant(a)}, {complete(a)}, {consummate(a)}, {double-dyed(a)}, {everlasting(a)}, {gross(a)}, {perfect(a)}, {pure(a)}, {sodding(a)}, {stark(a)}, {staring(a)}, {thoroughgoing(a)}, {utter(a)}, {unadulterated}].
Pure (a.) (Of coolor) Being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black [syn: {saturated}, {pure}] [ant: {unsaturated}].
Pure (a.) Free from discordant qualities.
Pure (a.) Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science".
Pure (a.) (Used of persons or behaviors) Having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow" [ant: {impure}].
Pure (a.) In a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" [syn: {pure}, {vestal}, {virgin}, {virginal}, {virtuous}].
Pured (a.) Purified; refined.
Puree (n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.
Purely (adv.) In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).
Purely (adv.) Nicely; prettily.
Pureness (n.) The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).
Purfile (n.) A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.
Purfle (v. t.) To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.
Purfle (v. t.) To ornament with a bordure of emines, furs, and the like; also, with gold studs or mountings.
Purfle (n.) Alt. of Purflew.
Purflew (n.) A hem, border., or trimming, as of embroidered work.