puss clover (pusklo"ver)

The rabbit's-foot or stone-clover, Trifolium arvense: so named from its silky heads. pu el (pus'el), n. The large scallop, Pecten magellanicus. [Local, Labrador.] pu -gentleman (pus'jen"tl-man), n. feminate dandy. [Rare.] A fine pu - gentleman that's all perfume. An ef Cowper , Conversation, 1. 284. A corruption of purslane. pu ly (pus'li), n . Also written pusley . [U. S.] When asked to select the most offensive among the worst weeds, the task becomes an exceedingly difficult one. Among the annuals, especially in gardens, the purslane or pusley perhaps takes the lead. Amer . Nat ., XXII. 778. pu -moth (pus'môth), n. A moth of the genus Cerura. C. (or Dicranura ) vinula is a handsome large bodied bombycid moth of Europe, of a whitish color with black spots. The larva, which feeds on poplars and willows, is blackish when young, pale-green when full-grown, and provided with two long anal projections; it ejects an acrid fluid when irritated. See cut under Cerura.