Puker (n.) One who pukes, vomits.
Puker (n.) That which causes vomiting.
Pulas (n.) The East Indian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See Gum Butea, under Gum.
Pulchritude (n.) That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.
Pulchritude (n.) Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.
Puled (imp. & p. p.) of Pule
Puling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pule
Pule (v. i.) To cry like a chicken.
Pule (v. i.) To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.
Puler (n.) One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.
Pulex (n.) A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.
Pulicene (a.) Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.
Pulicose (a.) Alt. of Pulicous
Pulicous (a.) Abounding with fleas.
Puling (n.) A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
Puling (a.) Whimpering; whining; childish.
Pulingly (adv.) With whining or complaint.
Pulkha (n.) A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.
Pulled (imp. & p. p.) of Pull
Pulling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pull
Pull (v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
Pull (v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
Pull (v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
Pull (v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
Pull (v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
Pull (v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
Pull (v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
Pull (v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
Pull (n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
Pull (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
Pull (n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
Pull (n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
Pull (n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
Pull (n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
Pull (n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
Pull (n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
Pullail (n.) Poultry.
Pullback (n.) That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
Pullback (n.) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.
Pulled (a.) Plucked; pilled; moulting.
Pullen (n.) Poultry.
Puller (n.) One who, or that which, pulls.
Pullet (n.) A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl.
Pulleys (pl. ) of Pulley
Pulley (v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain.
Pulley (b. t.) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
Pullicate (n.) A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.
Pullman car () A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman.
Pullulate (v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.
Pullulation (n.) A germinating, or budding.
Pulli (pl. ) of Pullus
Pullus (n.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
Pulmobranchiata (a. & n.) Alt. of Pulmobranchiate
Pulmobranchiate (a. & n.) Same as Pulmonibranchiata, -ate.
Pulmocutaneous (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the akin; as, the pulmocutaneous arteries of the frog.
Pulmogasteropoda (n. pl.) Same as Pulmonata.
Pulmograde (a.) Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae.
Pulmometer (n.) A spirometer.
Pulmonarian (n.) Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively.
Pulmonary (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; pulmonic.
Pulmonary (a.) Lungwort.
Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis.
Pulmonate (a.) Having breathing organs that act as lungs.
Pulmonate (a.) Pertaining to the Pulmonata.
Pulmonate (n.) One of the Pulmonata.
Pulmonated (a.) same as Pulmonate (a).
Pulmonibranchiata (n. pl.) Same as Pulmonata.
Pulmonibranchiate (a. & n.) Same as Pulmonate.
Pulmonic (a.) Relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.
Pulmonic (n.) A pulmonic medicine.
Pulmonifera (n. pl.) Same as Pulmonata.
Pulmoniferous (a.) Having lungs; pulmonate.
Pulp (n.) A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.
Pulp (n.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.
Pulp (n.) The soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of a grape.
Pulp (n.) The exterior part of a coffee berry.
Pulp (n.) The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.
Pulped (imp. & p. p.) of Pulp
Pulping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pulp
Pulp (v. t.) To reduce to pulp.
Pulp (v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument.
Pulpatoon (n.) A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit.
Pulpiness (n.) the quality or state of being pulpy.
Pulpit (n.) An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
Pulpit (n.) The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
Pulpit (n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.
Pulpit (a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.
Pulpited (a.) Placed in a pulpit.
Pulpiteer (n.) One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt.
Pulpiter (n.) A preacher.
Pulpitical (a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit.
Pulpitish (a.) Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching.
Pulpitry (n.) The teaching of the pulpit; preaching.
Pulpous (a.) Containing pulp; pulpy.
Pulpy (n.) Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.
Pulque (n.) An intoxicating Mexican drink. See Agave.
Pulsated (imp. & p. p.) of Pulsate
Pulsating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pulsate
Pulsate (v.) To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.