Pursuit (v. t.) Prosecution.
Pursuivant (n.) A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; -- called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.
Pursuivant (n.) The king's messenger; a state messenger.
Pursuivant (v. t.) To pursue.
Pursy (a.) Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence.
Purtenance (n.) That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.
Purrulence (n.) Alt. of Purulency
Purulency (n.) The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself.
Purulent (a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.
Purulently (v.) In a purulent manner.
Purveance (n.) Alt. of Purveiaunce
Purveiaunce (n.) Purveyance.
Purveyed (imp. & p. p.) of Purvey
Purveying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purvey
Purvey (v. t.) To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
Purvey (v. t.) To procure; to get.
Purvey (v. i.) To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
Purvey (v. i.) To pander; -- with to.
Purveyance (n.) The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.
Purveyance (n.) That which is provided; provisions; food.
Purveyance (n.) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished.
Purveyor (n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
Purveyor (n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
Purveyor (n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
Purview (n.) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.
Purview (n.) The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.
Purview (n.) Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.
Pus (a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.
Pusane (n.) A piece of armor for the breast; often, an addition to, or reenforcement of. the breastplate; -- called also pesane.
Puseyism (n.) The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated " Tracts for the Times;" tractarianism. See Tractarianism.
Puseyistic (a.) Alt. of Puseyite
Puseyite (a.) Of or pertaining to Puseyism.
Puseyite (n.) One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously.
Push (n.) A pustule; a pimple.
Pushed (imp. & p. p.) of Push
Pushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Push
Push (v. t.) To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.
Push (v. t.) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
Push (v. t.) To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.
Push (v. t.) To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
Push (v. t.) To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.
Push (v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.
Push (v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.
Push (v. i.) To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.
Push (n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
Push (n.) Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.
Push (n.) An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.
Push (n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.
Pusher (n.) One who, or that which, pushes.
Pushing (a.) Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.
Pushpin (n.) A child's game played with pins.
Pusil (a.) Very small; little; petty.
Pusillanimity (n.) The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness.
Pusillanimous (a.) Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince.
Pusillanimous (a.) Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble; as, pusillanimous counsels.
Pusillanimously (adv.) With pusillanimity.
Pusley (n.) Purslane.
Puss (n.) A cat; -- a fondling appellation.
Puss (n.) A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.
Pussy (n.) A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.
Pussy (n.) A catkin of the pussy willow.
Pussy (n.) The game of tipcat; -- also called pussy cat.
Pussy (a.) See Pursy.
Pustulant (v. t.) Producing pustules.
Pustulant (n.) A medicine that produces pustules, as croton oil.
Pustular (a.) Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.
Pustular (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.
Pustulate (v. t.) To form into pustules, or blisters.
Pustulate (a.) Alt. of Pustulated
Pustulated (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.
Pustulation (n.) The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.
Pustule (n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.
Pustulous (a.) Resembling, or covered with, pustules; pustulate; pustular.
Put (n.) A pit.
Put () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
Put (n.) A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
Put (imp. & p. p.) of Put
Putting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Put
Put (v. t.) To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).
Put (v. t.) To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.
Put (v. t.) To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
Put (v. t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
Put (v. t.) To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.
Put (v. t.) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
Put (v. t.) To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.
Put (v. t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
Put (v. i.) To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
Put (v. i.) To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
Put (v. i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
Put (n.) The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
Put (n.) A certain game at cards.
Put (n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.
Put (n.) A prostitute.
Putage (n.) Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.
Putamen (n.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.
Putanism (n.) Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
Putative (a.) Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child.
Putchuck (n.) Same as Pachak.
Puteal (n.) An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb.
Puteli (n.) Same as Patela.