puff, poffe

i. & t. [Of imitative origin; cf. Ger. puffen =to puff, to pop; Dan. pufe to pop; Sw. puff a to crack, to push; Wel. puffio =to come in puffs.] A. Intransitive: I. Literally: 1. To blow with puffs or short, sudden, and single blasts. "Where do you follow her, Like foggy south, puffing with wind and rain?" Shakesp.: As You Like It , iii. 5. 2. To breathe with thick and hard gasps, as after hard exertion. 3. To blow, as in scorn or contempt. "As for his enemies, he puffed at them."- Psalm x. 5. 4. To swell with air; to be dilated or distended. II. Figuratively : 1. To act or move in a hurried or bustling manner; to bustle about with an important air; to a ume importance. "[They] attempt to hide their total want of conse quence in bustle and noise, and puffing , and mutual quotation of each other."- Burke : On the French Revolu highly infectious, and even contagious, sometimes a ociated with erysipelas, but oftener caused by retained clots, dirty habits, intemperance, carele - tion . IMG:content-1714.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1716.png:[blocks in formation] The fibers have two unequal cleavages at right angles with one another. Brit . Mus . Cat . makes it a variety of stilbite. pŭg (1), s . [A weakened form of puck (q. v.).] *1. An imp; a little demon. "Agrippa kept a Stygian pug."-Butler: Hudibras , ii. 3. 2. An elf, a sprite, a hobgoblin. "Such as we pugs and hobgoblins call."- Heywood *3. A monkey. ( Add is on . ) 4. A pug-dog. "Poor pug was caught: to town conveyed, There sold." II. Technically : 1. Cloth-man.: A vat in which goods are boiled in of the gorse, pug managed to beat his adversaries."- an alkaline solution. *8. A prostitute, a strumpet. ( Cotgrave .) *9. Chaff; the refuse of grain. ( Holland .) pug-dog, s. Zool .: A dwarf variety of the common dog, like a diminutive bull-dog or mastiff. They are noisy and snappish, but affectionate. Dutch and French pugs somewhat differ, the latter are the more diminutive. pug-faced, a. Having a face like a monkey or IMG:content-1717.jpg:[graphic] Entom.: The genus Eupithecia, belonging to the = to fight.] Conflicting, opposing. Larentide. Small moths, the males with the an- tennæ pubescent; abdomen often crested, wings smooth, cloudy, with numerous wavy slender lines; wings in repose spread out and closely applied to the surface on which the insect rests. "His little pug-dog with his little pug -nose." Barham: In golds by Legends; Hand of Glory. pug-nosed, a . Having a short snub nose. pug-piles, s . pl . Hydr. Eng .: Piles dovetailed into each other. pug-piling, s. Hydr. Eng.: A method of securing piles by dove- tailing them into each other. A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adj .: Given to praising in extravagant or armed with radial blades, which work in the exaggerated terms; boasting, bragging. IMG:content-1718.png:[blocks in formation] Metall .: A cistern in which argentiferous slimes are stirred up with water. in order to remove some of the mud which becomes suspended in the water. pŭg, v . t . [PUG (2), s.] 1. Te work and temper clay in a pug-mill. 2. To stop with clay; to puddle. [PUGGING, 8.) pŭg-ar-eě, pŭg-ger-iě, pŭg'-ger-ỹ, pŭg'- greě, pŭg-reě, s. [Hind. pagri =a turban.) A piece of muslin wound round a hat or helmet in hot climates or warm weather, the ends being left falling down, to protect the head by keeping off the the rays of the sun. "The helmet, with or without a puggree , is pretty gen- erally worn." -London Daily Telegraph. *pŭg'-gard, s . [Etym. doubtful.) A thief. "Cheaters, lifters, nips, foists, puggards ." püke, s. [PUKE, v.] 1. Vomit. puke 2. A medicine which causes vomiting; an emetic. "A gentleman that lives not far from Change Taking a puke , has thrown up three black crows." Byrom: Three Black Crows . pūke, adj. [Etym. doubtful.] Of a dark color, said to be between black and ru et. "Embroyded brown in Spaniard puke ." Phaer: Virgil's Æneidos , ix. *puke-stocking, adj . Wearing puke-colored stockings. "Puke- stocking , caddis garter."- Shakesp .: Henry IV ., Pt . I. , ii. 4. pūk-ěr, s. [Eng. puk ( e ), v.; -er.] 1. One who pukes or vomits. 2. A medicine or substance which causes vomiting. "The griper senna, and the puker rue." Garth: Dispensary, iii. *pük'-Ish, *puk-is he, a . [Eng. puk ( e ), a.; -ish .] Puke-colored. pū-lăs, subst. [Malay.] A twine made by the Malays from a species of nettle. pul-chri-tude, subst . [Lat. pulchritudo , from pulcher =beautiful; Sp. pulchritud ; Ital. pulchri tudine .] Beauty, handsomene , grace, comeline ; elegance of figure. pūle, *peule, v . i . & t . [Fr. piauler =to peep, as a bird, from Lat. pipilo , frequent. of pipo =to chirp; Ital. pigolare . ] A. Intransitive : *1. To cry or chirp, as a chicken. 2. To whine, to whimper, as a complaining child. *B. Trans.: To utter in a whining or whimpering tone. pūl-er, s. [Eng. pul ( e ); -er.] One who whines; a whimperer. pū-lěx, s. [Lat.=a flea.] Entom.: The typical genus of the Pulicide (q.v.). Gervais enumerated twenty-five species; most of them are confined to one animal. Pulex irritans or hominis is the common flea [FLEA]; P. or Sar copsylla pene trans , the Chigre (q. v.); P. felis is the cats' flea; P. can is that of the dog and fox; P. gallince the fowls' flea; P. columbæ the pigeons' flea. pu-lic, *pū-lick, s. [Lat. pulic ( aria ).] Any plant of the genus Puli car i a (q. v.). pū-li-cär-i-a, subst . [Latin a plant; perhaps Plant a go psyllium , not one of the present genus; from pulex (gen it. pulicis ) =a flea, which the modern genus was supposed to drive away by its powerful smell.] [FLEA-BANE.] Bot .: Puli car i a crisp a , dried and bruised, is used in the Indian Salt Range as a vulnerary to bruises of cattle. pū-li-çēne, adj. [Latin pulex ( gen it.pulicis )=a flea.] Pertaining or relating to fleas; pulicous.