pugpiling (pugʻpi"ling)

Dovetailed piling. pugree (pug'rē), n. [Also puggree, puggery, pugaree, etc.; With a little pulling and wrenching, and the help of my long, tough turban-cloth, a real native pugree, we set and bound the arm as best we could. F. M. Crawford , Mr. Isaacs, x. puht, interj . Same as pooh . Shak ., Hamlet (folio 1623), i. 3. I am carele what the fusty world speaks of me. Puh ! B. Jonson , Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 1. puisne (pū'ne), a . and n . [An archaic form of puny , retained in legal use: see punyl .] Ι. a . 1. In law , younger or inferior in rank. An old gentleman. declaiming against the times, and treating them and their puisny advocate with more contempt than either one or the other seemed to deserve. Observer, No. 82. 21. Later. If he undergo any alteration, it must be in time, or of a puisne date to eternity. Sir M. Hale . 3t. Same as puny11, 2. - Mulier puisne. See mulier2. - Puisne judge. See judge. [Eng.] II. n . A junior; an inferior; specifically, in law , a judge of inferior rank. Each odd puisne of the lawyer's inn, Each barmy-froth, that last day did begin To read his little, or his ne'er a whit. 4836 With what help and aid the virtues resist and overcome the pui ance of the vices. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 4. Commonly ciuil and popular warres decay in puisance , preuaile sildome, and may not indure. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 248. His hart did earne To prove his pui ance in battell brave. Spenser , F. Q., I. i. 3. Leave your England, as dead midnight still, Guarded with grandsires, babies, and old women, Either past or not arrived to pith and pui ance . Shak ., Hen. V., iii., Prol., 1. 21. Still from time to time Came murmurs of her beauty from the South, And of her brethren, youths of pui ance . Tennyson , Prince , i. 2ł. Jurisdiction; power; control. The educacion of childeren should not alto geat her be vnder the pui aunce of their fathers, but vnder the publique power and aucthority, becawse the publique haue therein more Intereste then their parentes. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 11. 31. Armed force. Than, with the firste puy aunce that we may make, lete vs distroye the vitaile fro them thourgh the contreye, and lete vs sette in eche garnyson as moc he peple as we may. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 174. All the puy ance that was sent by Kyng Philyppe... they were all discomfytted and slayne. Berners , tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. 731. Cousin, go draw our pui ance together. pui ant (pū'i-sant), a. Shak . , K. John, iii. 1. 339. Pulex