puit1 (puit)

puit2+ (pūt), n. Sp. pozo = Pg. well: see pit1.] a rill. = Same as pewit ( b ). [Eng.] [ puits = Pr. potz , poutz poço = It. pozzo , puteus , a A spring; a fountain; a well; The puits flowing from the fountains of life. Jer. Taylor. puka-puka (pöʻkä-pökä), n . [New Zealand.] A small branching composite tree, Senecio For- steri , of New Zealand. Its leaves are very large, sometimes a foot long, and used by the natives as paper, whence puka - puka has become the native word for com- mon paper. This 'tis for a puisne In policy's Protean school to try conclusions With one that hath commenced, and gone out doctor. Mas singer , Duke of Milan, iv. 1. If still this privilege were ordinarily left in the Church, it were not a work for puisnes and novices, but for the greatest masters, and most learned and eminently holy doctors, which the times can po ibly yield. Bp . Hall , Invisible World, iii. § 9. Lord Chief Justice Coke did not pa sentence on Mrs. Turner; that grim office was performed by his puisne , Croke, J. N. and Q., 7th ser., IX. 263. puisnyt, a . Same as puisne , puny1 . [Rare.] pui ance (pūʻi-sans), n . [ puy ance , puysaunce , pui ance , poi ance , F. puis sance, power, pui ant , powerful: see puis sant .] 1. Power; strength; force; vigor. Thei were moc he peple and riche lordes of grete puys sance, and ther-to were the i well horsed. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 232. * speuk, extended form of spew. Cf. G. spucken, spit.] I. in trans. 1. To vomit; eject the contents of the stomach. The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 144. 2. To sicken; be overcome with loathing. As one of Woodward's patients, sick and sore, I puke , I nauseate-yet he thrusts in more. Pope, Satires of Donne, iv. 153. II. trans . 1. To vomit; throw up; eject from the stomach: generally with up .-2. To cause to puke or vomit. [ pukel , v .] 1. Vomit; a pukel (pük), n. vomiting; that which is vomited.-2. An emetic.-3. A disgusting person. [Low.] 4. [ cap .] An inhabitant of the State of Mi ouri. [Vulgar, U. S.] I saw my selfe old Canadie, About twelve of the clocke, Bare foote, hyr lockes about her heade, Ytuckde in pukishe pocke. Drant, tr. of Horace's Satires, viii. pulas (pu-las'), n. [Hind. palāsh, palās.] An East Indian tree, Butea frondosa; also, B. su perba, which differs chiefly in its climbing habit. Also palas, and pulas - tree. See Butea and kino1. pulas-oil (pu-las'oil), n . Same as moodooga - oil . Same as pulas . pulas-tree (pu-las'trē), n. pulchrioust, a . [ME. pulcrious , pulcher , pulcer , beautiful, + -ious .] Beauteous; beau- tiful; fair. The seffe child Ffromont that time callyd was, Of stature of persone hie, gret, and long, Inly wel formed, pulcrious of face, Sage, subtile, wel taught, myghty and stronge. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1263. pulchritude (pul'kri-tūd), n. [ pulcri tude , pulcritude = Sp. pulcritud = Pg. pulchritude , pulchritudo , pulcritudo , beauty, pulcher , pulcer , OL. polcer , beautiful.] Beauty; comeline ; handsomene . Persing our hartes with thi pulcritude . Court of Love , 1. 613. The mist i us. maintain'd an Opinion that the Pulchritude and Preservation of the World consisted in Varieties and Di imilitudes. Howell , Letters, iii. 26. The queen, when she had view'd The strange eye-dazzling admirable sight, Fain would have prais'd the state and pulchritude . Sir J. Davies , Dancing. What more than heavenly pulchritude is this? B. Jonson , Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 1.