Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 146

Pulsatile (a.) Pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor.

Pulsatilla (n.) A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in Anemone. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.

Pulsation (n.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.

Pulsation (n.) A single beat or throb of a series.

Pulsation (n.) A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.

Pulsation (n.) Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.

Pulsative (a.) Beating; throbbing.

Pulsator (n.) A beater; a striker.

Pulsator (n.) That which beats or throbs in working.

Pulsatory (a.) Capable of pulsating; throbbing.

Pulse (n.) Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

Pulse (n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

Pulse (n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.

Pulse (v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

Pulse (v. t.) To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

Pulseless (a.) Having no pulsation; lifeless.

Pulselessness (n.) The state of being pulseless.

Pulsific (a.) Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.

Pulsimeter (n.) A sphygmograph.

Pulsion (n.) The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to suction or traction.

Pulsive (a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.

Pulsometer (n.) A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also called vacuum pump.

Pulsometer (n.) A pulsimeter.

Pult (v. t.) To put.

Pultaceous (a.) Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.

Pultesse (n.) Alt. of Pultise

Pultise (n.) Poultry.

Pulu (n.) A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.

Purverable (a.) Capable of being reduced to fine powder.

Pulveraceous (a.) Having a finely powdered surface; pulverulent.

Pulverate (v. t.) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize.

Pulverine (n.) Ashes of barilla.

Pulverizable (a.) Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

Pulverization (n.) The action of reducing to dust or powder.

Pulverized (imp. & p. p.) of Pulverize

Pulverizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pulverize

Pulverize (v. t.) To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.

Pulverize (v. i.) To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as, the stone pulverizes easily.

Pulverizer (n.) One who, or that which, pulverizes.

Pulverous (a.) Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.

Pulverulence (n.) The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.

Pulverulent (a.) Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.

Pulvil (n.) A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio.

Pulvil (v. t.) To apply pulvil to.

Pulvillio (n.) Alt. of Pulvillo

Pulvillo (n.) A kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags.

Pulvilli (pl. ) of Pulvillus

Pulvillus (n.) One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.

Pulvinar (n.) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.

Pulvinate (a.) Alt. of Pulvinated

Pulvinated (a.) Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze.

Pulvinated (a.) Having the form of a cushion.

Pulvinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.

Pulvinuli (pl. ) of Pulvinulus

Pulvinulus (n.) Same as Pulvillus.

Puma (n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.

Pume (n.) A stint.

Pumicated (imp. & p. p.) of Pumicate

Pumicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pumicate

Pumicate (v. t.) To make smooth with pumice.

Pumice (n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.

Pumiced (a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

Pumiceous (a.) Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Pumice stone () Same as Pumice.

Pumiciform (a.) Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.

Pummace (n.) Same as Pomace.

Pummel (n. & v. t.) Same as Pommel.

Pump (n.) A low shoe with a thin sole.

Pump (n.) An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.

Pumped (imp. & p. p.) of Pump

pumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pump

Pump (v. t.) To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.

Pump (v. t.) To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.

Pump (v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.

Pump (v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump.

Pumpage (n.) That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.

Pumper (n.) One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.

Pumpernickel (n.) A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.

Pumpet (n.) A pompet.

Pumping () a. & n. from pump.

Pumpion (n.) See Pumpkin.

Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

Pumy (a.) Large and rounded.

Pun (v. t.) To pound.

Pun (n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

Punned (imp. & p. p.) of Pun

Punning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pun

Pun (v. i.) To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.

Pun (v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun.

Punch (n.) A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.

Punch (n.) The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.

Punch (n.) A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.

Punch (n.) One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.

Punch (v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.

Punch (n.) A thrust or blow.

Punch (n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

Punch (n.) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.

Punch (n.) A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

Punched (imp. & p. p.) of Punch

Punching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Punch

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