puldront

An obsolete form of pauldron. pule (pul), v.; pret. and pp. puled, ppr. puling. [Formerly also pewl, peule; The poore silly Soules pewling out of Purgatory. Sir T. More , Tracts (Utopia, Int., p. xcvii.). A wretched puling fool. Shak ., R. and J., iii. 5. 185. Thou 'rt such a puling thing! wipe your eyes and rise; go your ways. Beau , and Fl . , Coxcomb, iv. 7. Wherefore should I pule , and, like a girl, Put finger in the eye? Ford , Broken Heart, v. 2. All the wisdom of the ages will avail it nothing if it pule in discontent and fret in nervous sickne . N. A. Rev. , CXLII. 145. II.t trans . To utter in a whining or querulous manner: with out . I say "You love"; you peule me out a No. Drayton , Idea, v. puler (pū'lėr), n . One who pules or whines; a sickly, complaining person. If she be pale of complexion, she will prove but a puler ; is she high coloured, an ill cognizance. The Man in the Moone (1609), sig. G. ( Hall i well .) Pulex (pū'leks), n . [NL. (Linnæus, 1735), pulex , a flea.] 1. A notable genus of insects, typical of the Pulicidæ , or flea family. They lead a semi-parasitic life upon man and other animals. The larvæ feed on refuse, and are slender and whitish. Many species are known. P. irritans is the common flea which The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1276.png:[blocks in formation] pulicat, n. See pullicat . pulicene (pūʻli-sēn), a. [Irreg. for * pulicine , pulex ( pulic- ), a flea, + -ine1 .] Relating to fleas; pulicous. wide, with a sharp bow and a square stern. You sit up right against the stern-board, with your legs stretched out in the bottom. B. Taylor , Northern Travel, p. 103. pulk-hole (pulk'hōl), n. Same as pulk1 . This underwood, with the turf in the pulk hole or bog lands,. constituted absolutely the only fuel at the be- ginning of the century. A. Je opp , Arcady, ii. [ pullen , pulli an , pull (also in comp. a pulli an , pull), = LG. pulen , pick, pluck, pull, tear; cf. MD.pullen , drink; root un- known.] I. trans . 1. To draw or try to draw forcibly or with effort; drag; haul; tug: op- posed to push : generally with an adverb of di- rection, as up , down , on , off , out , back , etc.: as, to pull a chair back ; to pull down a flag; to pull a bucket out of a well; to pull off one's coat. This Arcite, with ful despitous herte Whan he him knew, and hadde his tale herd, As fiers as leoun pullede out a swerd. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 740. So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so hales, and Shak ., Othello, iv. 1. 144. O Night, thou pullest the proud Mask away Where-with vaine Actors, in this Worlds great Play, By Day disguise them. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. Pull off , pull off the broach of gold, And fling the diamond necklace by. 2. To pluck; gather by hand: as, to pull flax; to pull flowers. 3. To draw in such a way as to rend or tear; qualifying word or phrase, such as asunder , in pieces , apart : also used figuratively. Fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces . Acts xxiii. 10. It is hardly po ible to come into company where you do not find them pulling one another to pieces . Steele , Spectator, No. 348. 4. To extract; draw, as a tooth or a cork.- 5. To agitate, move, or propel by tugging, row- ing, etc.: as, to pull a bell; to pull a boat. I have pulled a whale boat in the Pacific, and paddled a canoe on Lake Huron. Whyte Melville , White Rose, II. vii. 6. To transport by rowing: as, to pull a pas- senger acro the bay. Come, look up bravely; put this puling pa ion Out of your mind. Beau . and Fl ., Knight of Malta, ii. 3. Where be those puling fears of death, just now expre ed or affected? Lamb , New Year's Eve. The "copy" was quickly put in type, a proof was pulled , and at 10h. 50m. it was placed in my hands, exactly an hour after the observations had been made at a station nearly 3000 miles away. The Century , XXXVIII. 605. 8t. To bring down; reduce; abate. His rank flesh shall be pull'd with daily fasting. Fletcher, Wife for a Month, v. 3. pulingly (pu'ling-li), adv . In a puling manner; 91. To pluck; fleece; cheat. with whining or complaint. My sleep ta'en from me, and go pulingly , Like a poor wench had lost her market-money. without cutting it off, and pulls it out. The skin is spread, with the hair or wool side uppermost, on an inclined sup- puliol-royalt, n. port during the proce . [Also puliall royal ; puliall real, real , puleium puleium regale , equiv. to L. puleium regium , royal royal fleabane: see puliol and royal. Hence, by corruption, pennyroyal .] Same as pennyroyal , 1. pulish (pu'lish), n . [Native name (?).] The Angola ant-thrush, Pitta an go lens is . pulk i (pulk), n. [Appar. a contracted dim. of Lapland Pulk. (From an original in the po e ion of the American Geographical Society.) He pulleth downe , he setteth up on hy; He gives to this, from that he takes away. To raise the wretched and pull down the proud. Roscommon, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry. The feind no sooner Jesus there did read, But Guilt pull'd down his eyes, and fear his head. To pull down the sidet, to cause the defeat of the party or side on which a person plays. If I hold your cards I shall pull down the side; I am not good at the game. I haf zerned & zat zokkez of oxen, & for my hyzez hem bozt, to bowe haue I mester, To see hem pulle in the plow aproche me byhouez. The Slogger pulls up at last for a moment, fairly blown. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 5. Mr. Kearney pulled up at the outskirts of the town in front of a small general store. The Century , XXXVII. 602. pull (pul), n. [ pul ; pull , v .] 1. The exercise of drawing power; effort exerted in hauling; a tug; drawing power or action; force expended in drawing. The husbandman, whose costs and pain, Whose hopes and helps lie buried in his grain, Waiting a happy Spring to ripen full His long'd-for harvest to the reapers' pull . IMG:content-1277.png:[blocks in formation] This wrastling pull between Corineus and Gogmagog. R. Carew , Survey of Cornwall, p. 2. A good feature of the ordinance is the power given to who is too of breaking up; raid; seize: as, to pull a gam- horse- racing , to check or hold back (a horse) in the favorable chance; an advantage order to keep it from winning: as, the jockey was suspected of pulling the horse. [Slang.] -To pull a face, to draw the countenance into a particu- lar expre ion; grimace: as, to pull a long face (that is, to look very serious). The Prior and the learned pulled a face . Browning , Fra Lippo Lippi. To pull a fincht. See finch1. - To pull down. (a) Το take down or apart; demolish by separating and remov- ing the parts: as, to pull down a house. Pull not down my palace towers, that are So lightly, beautifully built. have the pull over one. [Slang.] Do you know, it's a great pull not having married young. Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. xxiv. The great pull that men have over us (women) is that they are supposed to do only one thing at a time. Nineteenth Century , XXVI. 782. 7. A drink; a swig: as, to have a pull at the brandy-bottle. [Colloq.] The other hiccoughed, and sucked in a long pull of his hot coffee. Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. ii. "Bre'r Torm," he said, after a long pull at the pitcher of persimmon beer. The Century , XXXVIII. 88. Pur pull a i let, n. [ME., poulaille , F. poulaille , poultry, poule , hen, L. pullus , a young ani- mal, a chicken: see pullet .] Poultry. IMG:content-1278.png:[blocks in formation] The Pull as trine birds are a generalized group. E. D. Cope , Origin of the Fittest, p. 114. pull-back (púl'bak), n . [ pull + back1 , adv .] 1. That which keeps one back or restrains; a drawback. I appeal to the mind of every particular person that hears me whether he has not often found a struggle within himself, and a kind of pullback from the sin that he has been about to engage in. South , Sermons, VII. xi. 2. In modern costume for women, a contrivance by which the folds of the skirt behind were held together ther closely, closely, so that the skirt in front was drawn tightly and hung straight down. It was in fashion about 1885. pull-cock (pül'kok), n. A faucet of which the lever is vertical when the outlet is closed, and is pulled forward 90° in a vertical plane to open the pa age fully.