Putery (n.) Putage.
Putid (a.) Rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. Jer. Taylor.
Putidity (n.) Alt. of Putidness
Putidness (n.) The quality or state of being putrid.
Putlog (n.) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose.
Put-off (n.) A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.
Putour (n.) A keeper of a brothel; a procurer.
Putredinous (a.) Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.
Putrefaction (n.) The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.
Putrefaction (n.) The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied.
Putrefactive (a.) Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process.
Putrefactive (a.) Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction.
Putrefied (imp. & p. p.) of Putrefy
Putrefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Putrefy
Putrefy (v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
Putrefy (v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.
Putrefy (v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.
Putrefy (v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.
Putrescence (n.) The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
Putrescent (a.) Becoming putrid or rotten.
Putrescent (a.) Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.
Putrescible (a.) Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances.
Putrescible (n.) A substance, usually nitrogenous, which is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures.
Putrescin (n.) A nontoxic diamine, C4H12N2, formed in the putrefaction of the flesh of mammals and some other animals.
Putrid (a.) Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.
Putrid (a.) Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
Putridity (n.) The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.
Putridness (n.) Putridity.
Putrifacted (a.) Putrefied.
Putrification (n.) Putrefaction.
Putrify (v. t. & i.) To putrefy.
Putrilage (n.) That which is undergoing putrefaction; the products of putrefaction.
Putry (a.) Putrid.
Putry (n.) Putage.
Putter (n.) One who puts or plates.
Putter (n.) Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.
Puttered (imp. & p. p.) of Putter
Puttering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Putter
Putter (v. i.) To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.
Putter-on (n.) An instigator.
Puttier (n.) One who putties; a glazier.
Putting (n.) The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game.
Puttock (n.) The European kite.
Puttock (n.) The buzzard.
Puttock (n.) The marsh harrier.
Puttock (n.) See Futtock.
Putty (n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
Puttied (imp. & p. p.) of Putty
Puttying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Putty
Putty (v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty.
Putty-faced (a.) White-faced; -- used contemptuously.
Puttyroot (n.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.
Put-up (a.) Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.
Puy (n.) See Poy.
Puzzel (n.) A harlot; a drab; a hussy.
Puzzle (v.) Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
Puzzle (v.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
Puzzled (imp. & p. p.) of Puzzle
Puzzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puzzle
Puzzle (v. t.) To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
Puzzle (v. t.) To make intricate; to entangle.
Puzzle (v. t.) To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
Puzzle (v. i.) To be bewildered, or perplexed.
Puzzle (v. i.) To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
Puzzledom (n.) The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively.
Puzzle-headed (a.) Having the head full of confused notions.
Puzzlement (n.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
Puzzier (n.) One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes.
Puzzlingly (adv.) In a puzzling manner.
Puzzolan (n.) Alt. of Puzzolana
Puzzolana (n.) See Pozzuolana.
Pyaemia (n.) A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.
Pyaemic (a.) Of or pertaining to pyaemia; of the nature of pyaemia.
Pycnaspidean (a.) Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.
Pycnidia (pl. ) of Pycnidium
Pycnidium (n.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.
Pycnite (n.) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.
Pycnodont (n.) Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.
Pycnodontini (n. pl.) An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.
Pycnogonid (n.) One of the Pycnogonida.
Pycnogonida (n. pl.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda.
Pycnometer (n.) A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.
Pycnostyle (a.) See under Intercolumniation.
Pycnostyle (n.) A pycnostyle colonnade.
Pye (n.) See 2d Pie (b).
Pyebald (a.) See Piebald.
Pyelitis (n.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.
Pyemia (n.) See PyAemia.
Pyet (n.) A magpie; a piet.
Pygal (a.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.
Pygarg () Alt. of Pygargus
Pygargus () A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump.
Pygargus () The female of the hen harrier.
Pygargus () The sea eagle.
Pygidia (pl. ) of Pygidium
Pygidium (n.) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite.
Pygmy (a.) Alt. of Pygmean
Pygmean (a.) Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small.
Pygmies (pl. ) of Pygmy
Pygmy (n.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.