Puissantness
(Pu"is*sant*ness), n. The state or quality of being puissant; puissance; power.
Puit
(||Puit) n. [F. puits, from L. puteus well.] A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring. [Obs.]
The puits flowing from the fountain of life.
Jer. Taylor. Puke
(Puke) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Puking.] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E.
spew.] To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
The infant
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Shak. Puke
(Puke), v. t. To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
Puke
(Puke), n. A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
Puke
(Puke), a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Of a color supposed to be between black and russet. Shak.
This color has by some been regarded as the same with puce; but Nares questions the identity.
Puker
(Puk"er) n.
1. One who pukes, vomits.
2. That which causes vomiting. Garth .
Pulas
(Pu"las) n. [Skr. palaça.] (Bot.) The East Indian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See
Gum Butea, under Gum. [Written also pales and palasa.]
Pulchritude
(Pul"chri*tude) n. [L. pulchritudo, fr. pulcher beautiful.]
1. That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.
Piercing our heartes with thy pulchritude.
Court of Love. 2. Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.
By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies.
Ray. Pule
(Pule) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Puling.] [F. piauler; cf. L. pipilare, pipire, to
peep, pip, chirp, and E. peep to chirp.]
1. To cry like a chicken. Bacon.
2. To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.
It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule.
Barrow. Puler
(Pul"er) n. One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.
Pulex
(||Pu"lex) n. [L., a flea.] (Zoöl.) A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.
Pulicene
(Pu"li*cene) a. [From L. pulex, pulicis, a flea.] Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.
Pulicose
(Pu"li*cose` Pu"li*cous) a. [L. pulicosus, from pulex, a flea.] Abounding with fleas.
Puling
(Pul"ing) n. A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering.
Leave this faint puling and lament as I do.
Shak.
