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Provident

PROV'IDENT, adjective Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; forecasting; cautious; prudent in preparing for future exigences; as a provident man; a provident animal.

The parsimonious emmet, provident

Of future.

Orange is what Augustus was,

Brave, wary, provident and bold.

Providential

PROVIDEN'TIAL, adjective Effected by the providence of God; referable to divine providence; proceeding from divine direction or superintendence; as the providential contrivance of things; a providential escape from danger. How much are we indebted to God's unceasing providential care!

Providentially

PROVIDEN'TIALLY, adverb By means of God's providence.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapons.

Providently

PROV'IDENTLY, adverb With prudent foresight; with wise precaution in preparing for the future.

Provider

PROVI'DER, noun One who provides, furnishes or supplies; one that procures what is wanted.

Province

PROV'INCE, noun [Latin provincia; usually supposed to be formed from pro and vinco, to conquer. This is very doubtful, as provinco was not used by the Romans.]

1. Among the Romans, a country of considerable extent, which being reduced under their dominion, was new-modeled, subjected to the command of an annual governor sent from Rome, and to such taxes and contributions as the Romans saw fit to impose. That part of France next to the Alps, was a Roman province and still bears the name Provence.

2. Among the moderns, a country belonging to a kingdom or state, either by conquest or colonization, usually situated at a distance from the kingdom or state, but more or less dependent on it or subject to it. Thus formerly, the English colonies in North America were provinces of Great Britain, as Nova Scotia and Canada still are. The provinces of the Netherlands formerly belonged to the house of Austria and to Spain.

3. A division of a kingdom or state, of considerable extent. In England, a division of the ecclesiastical state under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, of which there are two, the province of Canterbury and that of York.

4. A region of country; in a general sense; a tract; a large extent.

Over many a tract

Of heaven they march'd, and many a province wide.

They never look abroad into the provinces of the intellectual world.

5. The proper office or business of a person. It is the province of the judge to decide causes between individuals.

The woman's province is to be careful in her economy, and chaste in her affection.

Provincial

PROVIN'CIAL, adjective Pertaining to a province or relating to it; as a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

1. Appendant to the principal kingdom or state; as provincial dominion; provincial territory.

2. Not polished; rude; as provincial accent or manners.

3. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as a provincial synod.

PROVIN'CIAL, noun A spiritual governor. In catholic countries, one who has the direction of the several convents of a province.

1. A person belonging to a province.

Provincialism

PROVIN'CIALISM, noun A peculiar word or manner of speaking in a province or district of country remote from the principal country or from the metropolis.

Provinciality

PROVINCIAL'ITY, noun Peculiarity of language in a province.

Provinciate

PROVIN'CIATE, verb transitive To convert into a province. [Unusual.]

Provine

PROVI'NE, verb intransitive To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.

Proving

PROVING, participle present tense Trying; ascertaining; evincing; experiencing.

Provision

PROVI'SION, noun s as z. [Latin provisio, provideo. See Provide.]

1. The act of providing or making previous preparation.

2. Things provided; preparation; measures taken beforehand, either for security, defense or attack, or for the supply of wants. We make provision to defend ourselves form enemies; we make provision for war; we make provision for a voyage or for erecting a building; we make provision for the support of the poor. Government makes provision for its friends.

3. Stores provided; stock; as provision of victuals; provision of materials.

4. Victuals; food; provender; all manner of eatables for man and beast; as provisions for the table or for the family; provisions for an army.

5. Previous stipulation; terms or agreement made, or measures taken for a future exigency.

In the law, no provision was made to abolish the barbarous customs of the Irish.

Papal provision a previous nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, by which practice the rightful patron was deprived of his presentation.

PROVI'SION, verb transitive To supply with victuals or food. The ship was provisioned for a voyage of six months. The garrison was well provisioned.

Provisional

PROVI'SIONAL, adjective Provided for present need or for the occasion; temporarily established; temporary; as a provisional government or regulation; a provisional treaty.

Provisionally

PROVI'SIONALLY, adverb By way of provision; temporarily; for the present exigency.

Provisionary

PROVI'SIONARY, adjective Provisional; provided for the occasion; not permanent.

Proviso

PROVI'SO, noun s as z. [Latin provisus, ablative proviso it being provided.] An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant or other writing, by which a condition is introduced; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, etc. The charter of the bank contains a proviso that the legislature may repeal it at their pleasure.

Provisor

PROVI'SOR, noun In church affairs, a person appointed by the pope to a benefice before the death of the incumbent, and to the prejudice of the rightful patron. Formerly the pope usurped the right of presenting to church livings, and it was his practice to nominate persons to benefices by anticipation, or before they became vacant; the person thus nominated was called a provisor In England, this practice was restrained by statues of Richard II. and Henry IV.

More sharp and penal laws were devised against provisors; it being enacted that whoever disturbs any patron in the presentation to a living by virtue of any papal provision, such provisor shall pay fine and ransom to the king at his will, and be imprisoned till he renounces such provision.

1. The purveyor, steward or treasurer of a religious house.

Provisory

PROVI'SORY, adjective Making temporary provision; temporary.

1. Containing a proviso or condition; conditional.

Provocation

PROVOCA'TION, noun [Latin provacatio. See Provoke.]

1. Any thing that excites anger; the cause of resentment.

1 Kings 21:22.

2. The act of exciting anger.

3. An appeal to a court or judge. [A Latinism, not now used.]

4. Incitement. [Not used.]

Provocative

PROVO'CATIVE, adjective Exciting; stimulating; tending to awaken or incite appetite or passion.

PROVO'CATIVE, noun Any thing that tends to excite appetite or passion; a stimulant; as a provocative of hunger or of lust.

Provocativeness

PROVO'CATIVENESS, noun The quality of being provocative or stimulating.

Provoke

PROVO'KE, verb transitive [Latin provoco, to call forth; pro and voco, to call.]

1. To call into action; to arouse; to excite; as, to provoke anger or wrath by offensive words or by injury; to provoke war.

2. To make angry; to offend; to incense; to enrage.

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Ephesians 6:4.

Often provoked by the insolence of some of the bishops--

3. To excite; to cause; as, to provoke perspiration; to provoke a smile.

4. To excite; to stimulate; to increase.

The taste of pleasure provokes the appetite, and every successive indulgence of vice which is to form a habit, is easier than the last.

5. To challenge.

He now provokes the sea-gods from the shore.

6. To move; to incite; to stir up; to induce by motives. Romans 10:19.

Let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works. Hebrews 10:24.

7. To incite; to rouse; as, to provoke one to anger. Deuteronomy 32:21.

PROVO'KE, verb intransitive To appeal. [A Latinism, not used.]

Provoked

PROVO'KED, participle passive Excited; roused; incited; made angry; incensed.

Provoker

PROVO'KER, noun One that excites anger or other passion; one that excites war or sedition.

1. That which excites, causes or promotes.

Provoking

PROVO'KING, participle present tense Exciting into action; inciting; inducing by motives; making angry.

1. adjective Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion; as provoking words; provoking treatment.

Provokingly

PROVO'KINGLY, adverb In such a manner as to excite anger.

Provost

PRO'VOST, noun [Latin proepositus, placed before, from proepono; proe and pono, to set or place.] In a general sense, a person who is appointed to superintend or preside over something; the chief magistrate of a city or town; as the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president. In France, formerly, a provost was an inferior judge who had cognizance of civil causes.

The grand provost of France, or of the household, had jurisdiction in the king's house and over its officer.

The provost marshal of an army, is an officer appointed to arrest and secure deserters and other criminals, to hinder the soldiers from pillaging, to indict offenders and see sentence passed on them and executed. He also regulates weights and measures. He has under him a lieutenant and a clerk, an executioner, etc.

The provost marshal in the navy, has charge of prisoner, etc.

The provost of the mint, is a particular judge appointed to apprehend and prosecute false coiners.

Provost of the king's stables, is an officer who attends at court and holds the king's stirrup when he mounts his horse.

Provostship

PRO'VOSTSHIP, noun The office of a provost.

Prow

PROW, noun [Latin prora.]

1. The forepart of a ship.

2. In seamen's language, the beak or pointed cutwater of a xebec or galley. The upper part is usually furnished with a grating platform.

3. The name of a particular kind of vessel used in the East Indian seas.

PROW, adjective Valiant. [Not in use.]

Prowess

PROW'ESS, noun Bravery; valor; particularly, military bravery; gallantry; intrepidity in war; fearlessness of danger.

Men of such prowess as not to know fear in themselves.

Prowest

PROW'EST, adjective [superlative of prow.] Bravest.

Prowl

PROWL, verb transitive [I know not the origin of this word, nor from what source it is derived. It may be derived from the root of stroll, troll, with a different prefix.] To rove over.

He prowls each place, still in new colors deck'd.

PROWL, verb intransitive To rove or wander, particularly for prey, as a wild

beast; as a prowling wolf.

1. To rove and plunder; to prey; to plunder.

PROWL, noun A roving for prey; colloquially, something to be seized and devoured.

Prowler

PROWL'ER, noun One that roves about for prey.

Prowling

PROWL'ING, participle present tense Wandering about in search of prey or plunder.

Proximal

PROX'IMAL. [See Proximate.]

Proximate

PROX'IMATE, adjective [Latin superlativeproximus.] Nearest; next. A proximate cause is that which immediately precedes and produces the effect, as distinguished from the remote, mediate or predisposing cause.

Proximately

PROX'IMATELY, adverb Immediately; by immediate relation to or effect on.

Proxime

PROX'IME, adjective Next; immediately. [Not used.]

Proximity

PROXIM'ITY, noun [Latin proximitas.] The state of being next; immediate nearness either in place, blood or alliance. The succession to the throne and to estates is usually regulated by proximity of blood.

Proxy

PROX'Y, noun [contracted from procuracy, or some word from the root of procure, proctor.]

1. The agency of another who acts as a substitute for his principal; agency of a substitute; appearance of a representative. None can be familiar by proxy None can be virtuous or wise by proxy

2. The person who is substituted or deputed to act for another. A wise man will not commit important business to a proxy when he can transact it in person. In England, any peer may make another lord of parliament his proxy to vote for him in his absence.

3. In popular use, an election or day of voting for officers of government.

Proxyship

PROX'YSHIP, noun The office or agency of a proxy.

Pruce

PRUCE, noun [from Prussia.] Prussian leather. [Not in use.]

Prude

PRUDE, noun [Gr. prudence.] A woman of great reserve, coyness, affected stiffness of manners and scrupulous nicety.

Less modest than the speech of prudes.

Prudence

PRU'DENCE, noun [Latin prudentia.] Wisdom applied to practice.

Prudence implies caution in deliberating and consulting on the most suitable means to accomplish valuable purposes, and the exercise of sagacity in discerning and selecting them. prudence differs from wisdom in this, that prudence implies more caution and reserve than wisdom, or is exercised more in foreseeing and avoiding evil, than in devising and executing that which is good. It is sometimes mere caution or circumspection.

Prudence is principally in reference to actions to be done, and due means, order, season and method of doing or not doing.

Prudent

PRU'DENT, adjective Cautious; circumspect; practically wise; careful of the consequences of enterprises, measures or actions; cautious not to act when the end is of doubtful utility, or probably impracticable.

The prudent man looketh well to his going. Proverbs 14:8.

A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself. Proverbs 22:3.

1. Dictated or directed by prudence; as prudent behavior.

2. Foreseeing by instinct; as the prudent crane.

3. Frugal; economical; as a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.

4. Wise; intelligent.

Prudential

PRUDEN'TIAL, adjective Proceeding from prudence; dictated or prescribed by prudence; as prudential motives; prudential rules.

1. Superintending the discretionary concerns of a society; as a prudential committee.

Prudentiality

PRUDENTIAL'ITY, noun The quality of being prudential; eligibility on principles of prudence. [Not used.]

Prudentially

PRUDEN'TIALLY, adverb In conformity with prudence; prudently.

Prudentials

PRUDEN'TIALS, noun plural Maxims of prudence or practical wisdom.

Many stanzas in poetic measures contain rules relating to common prudentials as well as to religion.

1. The subordinate discretionary concerns and economy of a company, society or corporation. The board of trustees appoint annually a committee to manage the prudentials of the corporation.

Prudently

PRU'DENTLY, adverb With prudence; with due caution or circumspection; discretely; wisely; as domestic affairs prudently managed; laws prudently framed or executed.

1. With frugality; economically; as income prudently expended.

Prudery

PRU'DERY, noun [from prude.] Affected scrupulousness; excessive nicety in conduct; stiffness; affected reserve or gravity; coyness.

Prudish

PRU'DISH, adjective [from prude.] Affectedly grave; very formal, precise or reserved; as a prudish woman; prudish manners.

A formal lecture, spoke with prudish face.

Prune

PRU'NE, verb transitive

1. To lop or cut off the superfluous branches of trees, to make them bear better fruit or grow higher, or to give them a more handsome and regular appearance.

2. To clear from any thing superfluous; to dress; to trim.

His royal bird

Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his beak.

PRUNE, verb intransitive To dress; to prink; a ludicrous word.

PRUNE, noun [Latin prunum; in Latin prunus is a plum tree; Gr. the fruit.] A plum, or a dried plum.

Pruned

PRU'NED, participle passive Divested of superfluous branches; trimmed.

1. Cleared of what is unsuitable or superfluous.

Prunel

PRU'NEL, noun A plant.

Prunello

PRUNEL'LO, noun A kind of stuff of which clergymen's gowns are made.

PRUNEL'LO, noun A kind of plum.

Pruner

PRU'NER, noun One that prunes trees or removes what is superfluous.

Pruniferous

PRUNIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin prunum, a plum, and fero, to bear.]

Bearing plums.

Pruning

PRU'NING, participle present tense Lopping off superfluous branches; trimming; clearing of what is superfluous.

PRU'NING, noun In gardening and agriculture, the lopping off the superfluous branches of trees, either for improving the trees or their fruit.

Pruning-Hook

PRU'NING-HOOK

PRU'NING-KNIFE, noun An instrument used in pruning trees. It is of various forms.

Pruning-Knife

PRU'NING-KNIFE, n. An instrument used in pruning trees. It is of various forms.

Prurience

PRU'RIENCE

PRU'RIENCY, noun [Latin pruriens, prurio, to itch.] An itching, longing desire or appetite for any thing.

Pruriency

PRU'RIENCY, n. [L. pruriens, prurio, to itch.] An itching, longing desire or appetite for any thing.

Prurient

PRU'RIENT, adjective Itching; uneasy with desire.

Pruriginous

PRURIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin pruriginosus, from prurigo, an itching, from prurio, to itch.] Tending to an itch.

Prussian

PRUSSIAN, adjective [from Prussia.] Pertaining to Prussia.

blue, a combination of iron with ferrocyanic acid. This is used as a pigment of a beautiful blue color.

Prussiate

PRUSSIATE, noun A salt formed by the union of the prussic acid, or coloring matter of prussian blue, with a salifiable base; as the prussiate of alumin.

Prussic

PRUSSIC, adjective The prussic acid is a compound of kyanogen or cyanogen, prussic gas and hydrogen, and hence called hydrocyanic acid. It is one of the strongest poisons known.

Pry

PRY, verb intransitive [a contracted word, the origin of which is not obvious.]

To peep narrowly; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something with scrutinizing curiosity, whether impertinently or not; as, to pry into the mysteries of nature, or into the secrets of state.

Nor need we with a prying eye survey

The distant skies to find the milky way.

PRY, noun Narrow inspection; impertinent peeping.

PRY, verb transitive To raise or attempt to raise with a lever. This is the common popular pronunciation of prize, in America. The lever used is also called a pry

Prying

PRY'ING, participle present tense Inspecting closely; looking into with curiosity.

Pryingly

PRY'INGLY, adverb With close inspection or impertinent curiosity.

Prytane

PRY'TANE

PRYT'ANIS, noun [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a president of the senate of five hundred.

[It is to be noted that in words beginning with Ps and Pt, the letter p has no sound.]

Prytanis

PRYT'ANIS, n. [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a president of the senate of five hundred.

[It is to be noted that in words beginning with Ps and Pt, the letter p has no sound.]

Psalm

PSALM, noun s'am. [Latin psalmus; Gr. to touch or beat, to sing.]

A sacred song or hymn; a song composed on a divine subject and in praise of God. The most remarkable psalms are those composed by David and other Jewish saints, a collection of one hundred and fifty of which constitutes a canonical book of the Old Testament, called Psalms, or the book of Psalms. The word is also applied to sacred songs composed by modern poets, being versifications of the scriptural psalms, or of these with other parts of Scripture, composed for the use of churches; as the Psalms of Tate and Brady, of Watts, etc.

Psalmist

PS'ALMIST, noun A writer or composer of sacred songs; a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the scriptural psalms.

1. In the church of Rome, a clerk, precentor, singer or leader of music in the church.

Psalmody

PS'ALMODY, noun The act, practice or art of singing sacred songs. psalmody has always been considered an important part of public worship.

Psalmographer

PSALMOG'RAPHER

PSALMOG'RAPHIST, noun [See Psalmography.]

A writer of psalms or divine songs and hymns.

Psalmographist

PSALMOG'RAPHIST, n. [See Psalmography.]

A writer of psalms or divine songs and hymns.

Psalter

PSAL'TER, noun [Latin psalterium.]

1. The book of Psalms; often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.

2. In Romish countries, a large chaplet or rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, according to the number of the psalms.

Psaltery

PSAL'TERY, noun [Gr.] An instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not now known. That which is now used is a flat instrument in form of a trapezium or triangle truncated at the top, strung with thirteen chords of wire, mounted on two bridges at the sides, and struck with a plectrum or crooked stick.

Praise the Lord with harp; sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Psalms 33:2.

Psammite

PSAM'MITE, noun [Gr. sand.] A species of micaceous sandstone.

Pseudo

PSEUDO, Gr. false, a prefix signifying false, counterfeit or spurious.

Pseudo-Apostle

PSEUDO-APOS'TLE, noun A false apostle; one who falsely pretends to be an apostle.

Pseudo-China

PSEUDO-CHI'NA, noun The false China root, a plant of the genus Smilax, found in America.

Pseudo-Galena

PSEUDO-GALE'NA, noun False galena or black jack.

Pseudo-Metallic

PSEUDO-METAL'LIC, adjective pseudo-metallic luster is that which is perceptible only when held towards the light; as in minerals.

Pseudo-Tinea

PSEUDO-TINEA, noun In natural history, the name of a remarkable species of insect or larva, resembling a moth. It feeds on wax, and is a terrible enemy to bees, as it enters the hive and sometimes compels the bees to abandon it, being covered with a coat that is impervious to their stings.

Pseudo-Volcanic

PSEUDO-VOLCAN'IC, adjective Pertaining to or produced by a pseudo-volcano.

Pseudo-Volcano

PSEUDO-VOLCA'NO, noun A volcano that emits smoke and sometimes flame, but no lava; also, a burning mine of coal.

Pseudograph

PSEU'DOGRAPH

PSEUDOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. false, and writing.] False writing.

Pseudography

PSEUDOG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. false, and writing.] False writing.

Pseudology

PSEUDOL'OGY, noun [Gr. false, and discourse.] Falsehood of speech.

Pseudomorphous

PSEUDOMORPH'OUS, adjective [pseudo and Gr. form.] Not having the true form. A pseudomorphous mineral is one which has received its form from some extraneous cause, not from natural crystallization.

Pshaw

PSHAW, exclamation An expression of contempt, disdain or dislike.

Psoas

PSO'AS, noun [Gr.] The name of two inside muscles of the loins.

Psora

PSO'RA, noun [Gr.] The itch.

Psychologic

PSYCHOLOG'IC

PSYCHOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a treatise on the soul, or to the study of the soul of man.

Psychological

PSYCHOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a treatise on the soul, or to the study of the soul of man.

Psychology

PSYCHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. soul, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise on the human soul; or the doctrine of the nature and properties of the soul.

Ptarmigan

PT'ARMIGAN, noun A fowl of the genus Tetrao, the lagopus or white game. The color of the plumage is a pale brown or ash, elegantly crossed or mottled with dusky spots and minute bars; the belly and wings are white. This fowl is seen on the summits of mountains in the north of England and of Scotland.

Ptisan

PTISAN, noun tiz'an. [Latin ptisana; Gr. to pound.]

A decoction of barley with other ingredients.

Ptolemaic

PTOLEMA'IC, adjective [from Ptolemy, the geographer and astrologer.]

Pertaining to Ptolemy. The ptolemaic system, in astronomy, is that maintained by Ptolemy, who supposed the earth to be fixed in the center of the universe, and that the sun and stars revolve around it. This theory was received for ages, but has been rejected for the Copernican system.

Ptsymagogue

PTSY'MAGOGUE, noun [Gr. saliva, and to drive.]

A medicine that promotes discharges of saliva.

Ptyalism

PTY'ALISM, noun [Gr. a spitting, to spit often.]

In medicine, salivation; an unnatural or copious flow of saliva.

Puberty

PU'BERTY, noun [Latin pubertas, from pubes.] The age at which persons are capable of procreating and bearing children. This age is different in different climates, but is with us considered to be at fourteen years in males, and twelve in females.

Pubes

PU'BES, noun [Latin] In botany, the hairiness of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.

Pubescence

PUBES'CENCE, noun [Latin pubescens, pubesco, to shoot, to grow mossy or hairy.]

1. The state of a youth who has arrived at puberty; or the state of puberty.

2. In botany, hairiness; shagginess; the hairy or downy substance on plants.

Pubescent

PUBES'CENT, adjective Arriving at puberty.

1. In botany, covered with pubescence, such as hair, bristles, beard, down, etc.; as the leaves of plants.

Public

PUB'LIC, adjective [Latin publicus, from the root of populus, people; that is, people-like.]

1. Pertaining to a nation, state or community; extending to a whole people; as a public law, which binds the people of a nation or state, as opposed to a private statute or resolve, which respects an individual or a corporation only. Thus we say, public welfare, public good, public calamity, public service, public property.

2. Common to many; current or circulated among people of all classes; general; as public report; public scandal.

3. Open; notorious; exposed to all persons without restriction.

Joseph her husband being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. Matthew 1:1.

4. Regarding the community; directed to the interest of a nation, state or community; as public spirit; public mindedness; opposed to private or selfish.

5. Open for general entertainment; as a public house.

6. Open to common use; as a public road.

7. In general, public expresses something common to mankind at large, to a nation, state, city or town, and is opposed to private, which denotes what belongs to an individual, to a family, to a company or corporation.

Public law, is often synonymous with the law of nations.

PUB'LIC, noun The general body of mankind or of a nation, state or community; the people, indefinitely.

The public is more disposed to censure than to praise.

In this passage, public is followed by a verb in the singular number; but being a noun of multitude, it is more generally followed by a plural verb; the public are.

In public in open view; before the people at large; not in private or secrecy.

In private grieve, but with a careless scorn,

In public seem to triumph, not to mourn.

Public-Hearted

PUB'LIC-HE'ARTED, adjective Public-spirited. [Not used.]

Public-Minded

PUB'LIC-MINDED, adjective Disposed to promote the public interest. [Little used.]

Public-Mindedness

PUB'LIC-MINDEDNESS, noun A disposition to promote the public weal or advantage. [Little used.]

Public-Spirited

PUBLIC-SPIR'ITED, adjective Having or exercising a disposition to advance the interest of the community; disposed to make private sacrifices for the public good; as public-spirited men.

1. Dictated by a regard to public good; as a public-spirited project or measure.

Public-Spiritednes

PUBLIC-SPIR'ITEDNESS, n. A disposition to advance the public good, or a willingness to make sacrifices of private interest to promote the common weal.

Publican

PUB'LICAN, noun [Latin publicanus, from publicus.]

1. A collector of toll or tribute. Among the Romans, a publican was a farmer of the taxes and public revenues, and the inferior officers of this class were deemed oppressive.

As Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matthew 9:10.

2. The keeper of a public house; an innkeeper.

Publication

PUBLICA'TION, noun [Latin publicatio, from publico, from publicus.]

1. The act of publishing or offering to public notice, notification to a people at large, either by words, writing or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as the publication of the law at mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.

2. The act of offering a book or writing to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution. The author consented to the publication of his manuscripts.

3. A work printed and published; any pamphlet or book offered for sale or to public notice; as a new publication; a monthly publication

Publicist

PUB'LICIST, noun A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who treats of the rights of nations.

Publicity

PUBLIC'ITY, noun The state of being public or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety.

Publicly

PUB'LICLY, adverb Openly; with exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; as property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.

1. In the name of the community. A reward is publicly offered for the discovery of the longitude, or for finding a northwestern passage to Asia.

Publicness

PUB'LICNESS, noun The state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; as the publicness of a sale.

1. State of belonging to the community; as the publicness of property.

Publish

PUB'LISH, verb transitive [Latin publico. See Public.]

1. To discover or make known to mankind or to people in general what before was private or unknown; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or edict. We publish a secret, by telling it to people without reserve. Laws are published by printing or by proclamation. Christ and his apostles published the glad tidings of salvation.

Th' unwearied sun, from day to day,

Does his Creator's power display;

And publishes to every land

The work of an Almighty hand.

2. To send a book into the world; or to sell or offer for sale a book, map or print.

3. To utter; to put off or into circulation; as, to publish a forged or counterfeit paper.

4. To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of matrimony. We say also, the persons intending marriage are published; that is, their intention of marriage is published.

Published

PUB'LISHED, participle passive Made known to the community; divulged; promulgated; proclaimed.

Publisher

PUB'LISHER, noun One who makes known what was before private or unknown; one that divulges, promulgates or proclaims.

1. One who sends a book or writing into the world for common use; one that offers a book, pamphlet, etc., for sale.

2. One who utters, passes or puts into circulation a counterfeit paper.

Publishing

PUB'LISHING, participle present tense Making known; divulging; promulgating; proclaiming; selling or offering publicly for sale; uttering.

Publishment

PUB'LISHMENT, noun In popular usage in New England, a notice of intended marriage.

Puccoon

PUCCOON', noun A plant, a species of Sanguinaria; the blood-root.

Puce

PUCE, adjective Of a dark brown color.

Pucelage

PU'CELAGE, noun A state of virginity. [Little used.]

Puceron

PU'CERON, noun The name of a tribe of small insects which are found in great numbers on the bark and leaves of plants, and live by sucking the sap; the Aphid, vine fretter, or plant louse.

Puck

PUCK, noun A demon; a mischievous spirit.

PUCK'-BALL

PUCK'-FIST, noun [from puck ] A kind of mushroom full of dust.

Pucker

PUCK'ER, verb transitive [Latin pectus; Gr. signifies closely, densely, to cover.] To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate.

His face pale and withered, and his skin puckered in wrinkles.

It is usually followed by up; as, to pucker up cloth; but up is superfluous. It is a popular word, but not elegant.

PUCK'ER, noun A fold or wrinkle, or a collection of folds.

Puckered

PUCK'ERED, participle passive Gathered in folds; wrinkled.

Puckering

PUCK'ERING, participle present tense Wrinkling.

Puddening

PUD'DENING, noun In seamen's language, a thick wreath or circle of cordage, tapering from the middle towards the ends, and fastened about the mast below the trusses, to prevent the yards from falling down when the ropes sustaining them are shot away.

Pudder

PUD'DER, noun [This is supposed to be the same as pother.]

A tumult; a confused noise; bustle. [Vulgar.]

PUD'DER, verb intransitive To make a tumult or bustle.

PUD'DER, verb transitive To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; vulgarly to bother.

Pudding

PUD'DING, noun

1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but usually a compound of flour, or meal of maiz, with milk and eggs, sometimes enriched with raisins and called plum-pudding.

2. An intestine.

3. An intestine stuffed with meat, ; etc. now called a sausage.

4. Proverbially, food or victuals.

Eat your pudding slave, and hold your tongue.

PUD'DING

Pudding-Grass

PUD'DING-GRASS, noun A plant of the genus Mentha.

Pudding-Gross

PUD'DING-GROSS, noun A plant.

Pudding-Pie

PUD'DING-PIE, noun A pudding with meat baked in it.

PUDDING PIPE-TREE, noun A plant of the genus Cassia.

Pudding-Sleeve

PUD'DING-SLEEVE, noun A sleeve of the full dress clerical gown.

Pudding-Stone

PUD'DING-STONE, noun Conglomerate; a coarse sandstone composed of silicious pebbles, flint, etc.united by a cement.

Pudding-Time

PUD'DING-TIME, noun The time of dinner; pudding being formerly the first dish set on the table, or rather first eaten; a practice not yet obsolete among the common people of New England.

1. The nick of time; critical time.

Puddle

PUD'DLE, noun A small stand of dirty water; a muddy splash.

PUD'DLE, verb transitive To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt and water.

1. To make thick or close.

Puddled

PUD'DLED, participle passive Made muddy or foul.

Puddling

PUD'DLING, participle present tense Making muddy or dirty.

Puddly

PUD'DLY, adjective Muddy; foul; dirty.

Puddock

PUD'DOCK'

PU'DENCY, noun [Latin pudens, pudeo, to blush or be ashamed.]

Modesty; shamefacedness.

Pudency

PU'DENCY, n. [L. pudens, pudeo, to blush or be ashamed.]

Modesty; shamefacedness.

Pudenda

PUDEN'DA, noun plural [Latin] The parts of generation.

Pudic

PU'DIC

PU'DICAL, adjective [Latin pudicus, modest.] Pertaining to the parts which modesty requires to be concealed; as the pudic artery.

Pudical

PU'DICAL, a. [L. pudicus, modest.] Pertaining to the parts which modesty requires to be concealed; as the pudic artery.

Pudicity

PUDIC'ITY, noun [Latin pudicitia.] Modesty; chastity.

Pue-Fellow

PUE-FELLOW. [See Pew-fellow.]

Puerile

PU'ERILE, adjective [Latin puerilis, from puer, a boy.]

Boyish; childish; trifling; as a puerile amusement.

Puerility

PUERIL'ITY, noun [Latin puerilitas, from puer, a boy.]

1. Childishness; boyishness; the manners or actions of a boy; that which is trifling.

2. In discourse, a thought or expression which is flat, insipid or childish.

Puerperal

PUER'PERAL, adjective [Latin puerpera, a lying-in-woman; puer, a boy, and pario, to bear.] Pertaining to childbirth; as a puerperal fever.

Puerperous

PUER'PEROUS, adjective [Latin puerperus, supra.] Bearing children; lying in.

Puet

PUET. [See Pewet.]

Puff

PUFF, noun

1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; a quick forcible blast; a whiff.

2. A sudden and short blast of wind.

3. A fungous ball filled with dust.

4. Any thing light and porous, or something swelled and light; as puff-paste.

5. A substance of loose texture, used to sprinkle powder on the hair.

6. A tumid or exaggerated statement or commendation.

PUFF, verb intransitive

1. To drive air from the mouth in a single and quick blast.

2. To swell the cheeks with air.

3. To blow as an expression of scorn or contempt.

It is really to defy heaven, to puff at damnation.

4. To breathe with vehemence, as after violent exertion.

The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing from the chase.

5. To do or move with hurry, agitation and a tumid, bustling appearance.

Then came brave glory puffing by.

6. To swell with air; to dilate or inflate.

PUFF, verb transitive To drive with a blast of wind or air; as, the north wind puffs away the clouds.

1. To swell; to inflate; to dilate with air; as a bladder puffed with air.

The sea puffed up with winds.

2. To swell; to inflate; to blow up; as puffed up with pride, vanity or conceit; to puff up with praise or flattery.

3. To drive with a blast in scorn or contempt.

I puff the prostitute away.

4. To praise with exaggeration; as to puff a pamphlet.

Puff-Ball

PUFF-BALL, noun A fungus or mushroom full of dust, of the genus Lycoperdon.

Puffed

PUFF'ED, participle passive Driven out suddenly, as air or breath; blown up; swelled with air; inflated with vanity or pride; praised.

Puffer

PUFF'ER, noun One that puffs; one that praises with noisy commendation.

Puffin

PUFF'IN, noun A water fowl of the genus Alca or auk.

1. A kind of fish.

2. A kind of fungus with dust; a fuzzball.

Puffin-Apple

PUFF'IN-APPLE, noun A sort of apple so called.

Puffing

PUFF'ING, participle present tense Driving out the breath with a single, sudden blast; blowing up; inflating; praising pompously.

Puffingly

PUFF'INGLY, adverb Tumidly; with swell.

1. With vehement breathing or shortness of breath.

Puffy

PUFF'Y, adjective Swelled with air or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; as a puffy tumor.

1. Tumid; turgid; bombastic; as a puffy style.

Pug

PUG, noun The name given to a little animal treated with familiarity, as a monkey, a little dog, etc.

Puggered

PUGGERED, for puckered, is not in use.

Pugh

PUGH, exclamation A word used in contempt or disdain.

Pugil

PU'GIL, noun [Latin pugillum, from the root of pugnus, the fist; probably coinciding with the Greek, to make thick, that is, to close or press.]

As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers.

Pugilism

PU'GILISM, noun [Latin pugil, a champion or prize-fighter, from the Gr. id.; the fist; with the fist; to close or make fast; allied probably to pack, Latin pango.]

The practice of boxing or fighting with the fist.

Pugilist

PU'GILIST, noun A boxer; one who fights with his fists.

Pugilistic

PUGILIS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to boxing or fighting with the fist.

Pugnacious

PUGNA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin pugnax, from pugna, a fight; from pugnus, the fist. See Pugil.]

Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting.

Pugnacity

PUGNAC'ITY, noun Inclination to fight; quarrelsomeness. [Little used.]

Puisne

PUISNE, adjective pu'ny.

1. In law, younger or inferior in rank; as a chief justice and three puisne justices of the court of common please; the puisne barons of the court of exchequer.

2. Later in date. [Not used.]

Puissance

PU'ISSANCE, noun [Latin posse, possum, potes, potest.]

Power; strength; might; force.

Puissant

PU'ISSANT, adjective Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as a puissant prince or empire.

Puissantly

PU'ISSANTLY, adverb Powerfully; with great strength.

Puke

PUKE, verb intransitive [Heb. to evacuate, to empty; Latin vacuo; to burst forth; Latin spuo, for spuco, with a prefix. The radical sense is to throw or drive.] To vomit; to eject from the stomach.

PUKE, noun A vomit; a medicine which excites vomiting.

PUKE, adjective Of a color between black and russet.

Puked

PU'KED, participle passive Vomited.

Puker

PU'KER, noun A medicine causing vomiting.

Puking

PU'KING, participle present tense Vomiting.

Pulchritude

PUL'CHRITUDE, noun [Latin pulchritudo, from pulcher, beautiful.]

1. Beauty; handsomeness; grace; comeliness; that quality of form which pleases the eye.

2. Moral beauty; those qualities of the mind which good men love and approve.

Pule

PULE, verb intransitive [Latin pello.]

1. To cry like a chicken.

2. To whine; to cry as a complaining child; to whimper.

To speak puling like a beggar at halimass.

Pulic

PU'LIC, noun A plant.

Pulicose

PU'LICOSE

PU'LICOUS, adjective [Latin pulicosus, from pulex, a flea.]

Abounding n with fleas. [Not used.]

Pulicous

PU'LICOUS, a. [L. pulicosus, from pulex, a flea.]

Abounding n with fleas. [Not used.]

Puling

PU'LING, participle present tense Crying like a chicken; whining.

PU'LING, noun A cry, as of a chicken; a whining.

Pulingly

PU'LINGLY, adverb With whining or complaint.

Puliol

PU'LIOL, noun A plant.

Pulkha

PULK'HA, noun A Laplander's traveling sled or sleigh.

Pull

PULL, verb transitive [Latin vello.]

1. To draw; to draw towards one or to make an effort to draw. pull differs from draw; we use draw when motion follows the effort, and pull is used in the same sense; but we may also pull forever without drawing or moving the thing. This distinction may not be universal. pull is opposed to push.

Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in to him into the ark. Genesis 8:9.

2. To pluck; to gather by drawing or forcing off or out; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax.

3. To tear; to rend; but in this sense followed by some qualifying word or phrase; as, to pull in pieces; to pull asunder or apart. To pull in two, is to separate or tear by violence into two parts.

To pull down, to demolish or to take in pieces by separating the parts; as, to pull down a house.

1. To demolish; to subvert; to destroy.

In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than to build up.

2. To bring down; to degrade; to humble.

To raise the wretched and pull down the proud.

PULL off, to separate by pulling; to pluck; also, to take off without force; as, to pull off a coat or hat.

To pull out, to draw out; to extract.

To pull up, to pluck up; to tear up by the roots; hence, to extirpate; to eradicate; to destroy.

PULL, noun The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move by drawing towards one.

1. A contest; a struggle.

2. Pluck; violence suffered.

Pullback

PULL'BACK, noun That which keeps back, or restrains from proceeding.

Pulled

PULL'ED, participle passive Drawn towards one; plucked.

Pullen

PULL'EN, noun [Latin pullus. See Pullet and Foal.] Poultry.

[Not used.]

Puller

PULL'ER, noun One that pulls.

Pullet

PULL'ET, noun [Latin pullus; Gr. coinciding with Eng.foal.]

A young hen or female of the gallinaceous kind of fowls.

Pulley

PULL'EY, noun plural pulleys. [Latin polus; Gr. to turn.]

A small wheel turning on a pin in a block, with a furrow or groove in which runs the rope that turns it.

The pulley is one of the mechanical powers. The word is used also in the general sense of tackle, to denote all parts of the machine for raising weights, of which the pulley forms a part.

Pullicat

PUL'LICAT, noun A kind of silk handkerchief.

Pulling

PULL'ING, participle present tense Drawing; making an effort to draw; plucking.

Pullulate

PUL'LULATE, verb intransitive [Latin pullulo, from pullus, a shoot.]

To germinate; to bud.