puncture

t. & i. [PUNCTURE, 8.] A. Transitive : 1. Lit .: To make a puncture in; to prick; to pierce with a small pointed instrument. "To puncture the still supplicating sage." Garth: Dispensary, vi. 2. Fig .: To prick, and so burst or explode, as one would a bladder by pricking. "A me age that would puncture the fallacies of the inflationists."- Harper's Monthly , Sept., 1885. B. In trans.: To make punctures or holes. "Occasioned by the puncturings of the red spider." Field, Oct. 3, 1885. punc-tu-rěl-la, subst. [Mod. Lat., dim in. from punctura a puncture (q. v.).] Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of Fi urellide, with six (?) species, widely distributed in 20-100 fathoms. Shell conical, elevated, apex recurved; perforation in front of apex, with a raised border internally; surface cancellated. pun'-dit, pan-dit, s. [Sansc. pandit a learned, a wise or learned man, from pand =to heap up.] 1. A learned Brahman; one learned in the Sanscrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of India. 2. One who makes a great show of learning, without really po e ing it. *pun'-dle, s . [Etym. doubtful; perhaps a variant of bundle .) A short and fat woman. *pu-nēşe', *pu-nîşe', s . [French punaise .] The bed-bug. "His flea, his morpion, and punese, He'ad gotten for his proper ease." Butler: Hudibras, iii. i. Pun'-field, s. [See def.] Geog.: A place in Dor sets hire, England. Punfield-beds, s . pl . Geol .: Prof. Judd's name for beds, partly of brackish, partly of marine origin, found a Punfield. They higher the Wealden proper. of the shells characterize also the Upper and Middle Neo comian of the north of Spain.