Pudical (a.) Pudic.
Pudicity (n.) Modesty; chastity.
Pudu (n.) 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.
Pueblo (n.) A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region.
Puefellow (n.) A pewfellow.
Puer (n.) The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning.
Puerco (n.) A hog.
Puerile (a.) Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.
Puerilely (adv.) In a puerile manner; childishly.
Puerileness (n.) The quality of being puerile; puerility.
Puerilities (pl. ) of Puerility
Puerility (n.) The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness.
Puerility (n.) That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly.
Puerperal (a.) Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.
Puerperous (a.) Bearing children.
Puet (n.) The pewit.
Puff (n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
Puff (n.) Anything light and filled with air.
Puff (n.) A puffball.
Puff (n.) a kind of light pastry.
Puff (n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
Puff (n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
Puffed (imp. & p. p.) of Puff
Puffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puff
Puff (n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
Puff (n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
Puff (n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
Puff (n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
Puff (v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
Puff (v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
Puff (v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
Puff (v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
Puff (a.) Puffed up; vain.
Puffball (n.) 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.
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.
Puffer (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.
Puffer (n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
Puffer (n.) A kier.
Puffery (n.) The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.
Puffin (n.) 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.
Puffin (n.) The puffball.
Puffin (n.) A sort of apple.
Puffiness (n.) The quality or state of being puffy.
Puffing () a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.
Puffingly (adv.) In a puffing manner; with vehement breathing or shortness of breath; with exaggerated praise.
Puff-leg (n.) 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.) 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.
Puffy (a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
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 (n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
Pug (n.) A name for a monkey.
Pug (n.) A name for a fox.
Pug (n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
Pug (n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.
Pug (n.) A prostitute.
Pug (n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
Pug (n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Pug-faced (a.) Having a face like a monkey or a pug; monkey-faced.
Pugger (v. t.) To pucker.
Puggered (a.) Puckered.
Pugging (v. t.) The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.
Pugging (v. t.) 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.
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.
Pugilism (n.) The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.
Pugilist (n.) One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
Pugilistic (a.) Of or pertaining to pugillism.
Pugnacious (a.) Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.
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.
Puisne (a.) Puny; petty; unskilled.
Puisne (a.) 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.
Puisne (n.) One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.
Puisny (a.) Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled.
Puissance (n.) Power; strength; might; force; potency.
Puissant (a.) Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.
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.
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.
Puke (v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
Puke (n.) A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
Puke (a.) Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.