pug2 (pug)

[Abbr. of pug - nose.] A pugnose; the form or turn of a pug-nose: as, a decided pug. [Colloq.] pug3 (pug), v. t.; pret. and pp. pugged, ppr. pug ging. [A var. of poke.] 1. To thrust; strike. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.]-2. In building: (a) To tamp with clay, or stop with puddle; clay. ( b ) To line (spaces between floor-joists) or cover (partition-walls) with coarse mortar, felt, sawdust, or any other material to impede the pa age of sound; deaden; deafen.-3. In pottery and brick - manuf., to grind, as clay, with water in order to render it plastic. The mixing and pugging apparatus is 23.6 inches in diameter at the feed end, and diminishes to 20.7 inches at the delivery end. Ure , Dict., IV. 531. pug3 ( pug ), п. [ See pug3, v.] 1. Clay ground and worked or kneaded with water, and sometimes with other substances, into consistency for molding, as into bricks, etc.-2. A pug-mill. pug4+ (pug), n. [ME. pugge; origin obscure.] Chaff; refuse of grain. Mast, chastene, yeve hem pugges of thi corne. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 99. It can not abide rank mucke, but content eth itselfe with rotten chaffe or pugs , and such like plain mullock.. Holland , tr. of Pliny, xix. 5. ( Davies .) pug5 ( pug ), n. [Hind. pag, foot.] The print of a foot; a footmark. See puggi. pugaree (pug'a-rē), n. See pugree. pugpug-dog (pug'dog), n. A small dog which bears a resemblance in miniature to the bulldog. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, i. 37. ( Davies .) pugil2 (pūʻjil), n . [= It. pugillo , a pinch, pugillus , pugillum , a handful, dim., pugnus ( √ pug ), fist: see pugill .] As much as can be taken up between the thumb and the first two fingers; a pinch. [Obsolete or archaic.] Take violets, and infuse a good pugill of them in a quart of vinegar. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 17. The old gentleman at last extracted an ample round snuff-box. I looked as he opened it and felt for the wonted. O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, iv. pugil.