(a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

(n.) A pit.

() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.

(n.) A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

(imp. & p. p.) of Put

(v. t.) To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).

(v. t.) To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.

(v. t.) To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

(v. t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

(v. t.) To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.

(v. t.) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

(v. t.) To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.

(v. t.) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

(v. i.) To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

(v. i.) To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

(v. i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

(n.) The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

(n.) A certain game at cards.

(n.) A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) See Poy.

(n.) See 2d Pie (b).

(interj.) An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.

(n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

(n.) See 1st Pea.

(n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).

(n.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved.

(n.) A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.

(n.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle.

(n.) Same as Pyxis.

(v. t.) To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx.

(v. t.) To pound.

(n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.

(v. i.) To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.

(v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun.

(v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.

(n.) Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

(n.) A pug mill.

(n.) An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.

(n.) A name for a monkey.

(n.) A name for a fox.

(n.) An intimate; a crony; a dear one.

(n.) Chaff; the refuse of grain.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.

(n.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

(n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.

(n.) See Camp, n., 5.

(n.) A magpie.

(n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.

(n.) The service book.

(n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.

(v. t.) See Pi.

(n.) A piggin.

(n.) The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.

(n.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.

(n.) An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.

(n.) One who is hoggish; a greedy person.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

(v. t. & i.) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.

(v. t.) To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

(v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

(n.) A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.

(n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

(n.) A ropedancer's balancing pole.

(n.) A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.

(v. i.) To tipple; to drink.

(n.) A bag; a pouch.

(n.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.

(n.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.

(v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

(n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.

(v. t.) To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.

(v. t.) To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit.

(v. i.) To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.

(v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays.

(n.) Satisfaction; content.

(n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.

(v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

(v. t.) To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.

(v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.

(v. t.) To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).

(n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

(n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.

(n.) A size of paper. See Pott.

(v. t.) To place or inclose in pots

(v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.

(v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.

(v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.

(v. t.) To pocket.

(n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

(n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

(n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.

(n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

(n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

(n.) The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.

(n.) The hand.

(v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.

(v. t.) To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.

(v. t.) To scrape or beat with the forefoot.

(n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard.

(n.) See Peak, n., 3.

(n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.

(n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.

(v. t.) To bend.

(v. t.) To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.

(n.) The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.

(v. t.) To employ diligently; to use steadily.

(v. t.) To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.

(v. i.) To bend; to yield.

(v. i.) To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports.

(v. i.) To work to windward; to beat.

(v.) A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.

(v.) Bent; turn; direction; bias.

(n.) A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

(n.) One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.

(n.) Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold.

(v. t.) To furnish with pews.

(adv.) A little more; as, piu allegro, a little more briskly.

(n. & v.) See Pyx.