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{ Psy"chic (?), Psy"chic*al (?), } a. [L. psychicus, Gr. &?;, fr. psychh` the soul, mind; cf. &?; to blow: cf. F. psychique.] 1. Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.
This term was formerly used to express the same idea as psychological. Recent metaphysicians, however, have employed it to mark the difference between psychh` the living principle in man, and pney^ma the rational or spiritual part of his nature. In this use, the word describes the human soul in its relation to sense, appetite, and the outer visible world, as distinguished from spiritual or rational faculties, which have to do with the supersensible world. Heyse.
2. Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.
Psychical blindness, Psychical deafness (Med.), forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen. -- Psychical contagion, the transference of disease, especially of a functional nervous disease, by mere force of example. -- Psychical medicine, that department of medicine which treats of mental diseases.
Psy"chics (?), n. Psychology.
Psy"chism (?), n. [Cf. F. psychisme.] (Philos.) The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations. Fleming.
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Psy"cho- (?). A combining form from Gr. psychh` the soul, the mind, the understanding; as, psychology.
Psy`cho*gen"e*sis (?), n. Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.
Psy*chog"ra*phy (?), n. [Psycho- + -graphy.] 1. A description of the phenomena of mind.
2. (Spiritualism) Spirit writing.
{ Psy`cho*log"ic (?), Psy`cho*log"ic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F. psychologique.] Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under Psychic. -- Psy`cho*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Psy*chol"o*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. psychologiste.] One who is versed in, devoted to, psychology.
Psy"cho*logue (?), n. A psychologist.
Psy*chol"o*gy (?), n. pl. Psychologies (&?;). [Psycho- + -logy: cf. F. psychologie. See Psychical.] The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.
Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Psy*chom"a*chy (?), n. [L. psychomachia, fr. Gr. psychh` the soul + &?; fight: cf. &?; desperate fighting.] A conflict of the soul with the body.
Psy"cho*man`cy (?), n. [Psycho- + -mancy: cf. F. psychomancie.] Necromancy.
Psy*chom"e*try (?), n. [Psycho- + -metry.] (Physiol.) The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena. -- Psy`cho*met"ric (#), a.
Psy`cho-mo"tor (?), a. [Psycho- + motor.] Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.
Psy"cho*pan"ny*chism (?), n. [Psycho- + Gr. &?; to spend all night long; &?;, &?;, all + &?; night.] (Theol.) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. -- Psy`cho*pan"ny*chism (#), n.
Psy*chop"a*thy (?), n. [Psycho- + Gr. &?;, &?;.] (Med.) Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. -- Psy`cho*path"ic, a. -- Psy*chop"a*thist, n.
Psy`cho*phys"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.
Psychophysical time (Physiol.), the time required for the mind to transform a sensory impression into a motor impulse. It is an important part of physiological or reaction time. See under Reaction.
Psy`cho*phys"ics (?), n. [Psycho- + physics.] The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.
Psy"cho*pomp (?), n. [Gr. &?;; psychh` the soul + &?; to send: cf. F. psychopompe.] (Myth.) A leader or guide of souls . J. Fiske.
Psy*cho"sis (?), n. [NL. See Psycho- .]
1. Any vital action or activity. Mivart.
2. (Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
Psy`cho*zo"ic (?), a. [Psycho- + Gr. &?; life.] (Geol.)Designating, or applied to the Era of man; as, the psychozoic era.
Psy*chrom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. psychro`s cold + -meter: cf. F. psychromËtre.] An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.
Psy`chro*met"ric*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to the psychrometer or psychrometry.
Psy*chrom"e*try (?), n. Hygrometry.
||Psyl"la (?), n.; pl. PsyllÊ (#). [NL., from Gr. &?; a flea.] (Zoˆl.) ||Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family PsyllidÊ.
Ptar"mi*gan (?), n. [Gael. tarmachan; cf. Ir. tarmochan, tarmonach.] (Zoˆl.) Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.
They chiefly inhabit the northern countries and high mountains of Europe, Asia, and America. The common European species is Lagopus mutus. The Scotch grouse, red grouse, or moor fowl (L. Scoticus), is reddish brown, and does not turn white in winter. The white, or willow, ptarmigan (L. albus) is found in both Europe and America.
||Pte`no*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr.&?; feathered + &?; tongue.] ||(Zoˆl.) A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the ||radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a ||feather.
Pte`no*glos"sate (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.
Pte*ran"o*don (?), n. [Gr. &?; wing + &?; priv. + &?;, &?;, a tooth.] (Paleon.) A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.
||Pte*ran`o*don"ti*a (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Paleon.) A group of ||pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon.
||Pte*rich"thys (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; wing + &?; fish.] (Paleon.) A ||genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head ||and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See ||Placodermi.
Pter`i*dol"o*gist (?), n. One who is versed in pteridology.
Pter`i*dol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a fern + -logy.] That department of botany which treats of ferns.
Pter`i*do*ma"ni*a (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a fern + E. mania.] A madness, craze, or strong fancy, for ferns. [R.] C. Kingsley.
||Pter`i*doph"y*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?;, &?;, a fern + &?; a ||plant.] (Bot.) A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, ||horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the ||Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte` (#), n.
This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular Cryptogamia.
||Pter`o*bran"chi*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a wing + &?; &?;.] ||(Zoˆl.) An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and ||an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also ||Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.
||Pte*roc"e*ras (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a wing + &?; a horn.] (Zoˆl.) ||A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip ||divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.
||Pter`o*cle"tes (?), n. pl. [NL., fr Pterocles, the typical genus, fr. ||Gr. &?; feather + &?;, &?;, a key, tongue of a clasp.] (Zoˆl.) A ||division of birds including the sand grouse. They are in some ||respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called ||also PteroclomorphÊ.
Pter`o*dac"tyl (?), n. [Gr. &?; a wing + &?; finger, toe: cf. F. ptÈrodactyle.] (Paleon.) An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.
||Pter`o*dac"ty*li (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Paleon.) Same as Pterosauria.
Pter`o*glos"sal (?), a. [Gr. &?; a feather + &?; tongue.] (Zoˆl.) Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.
Pte"ron (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a wing.] (Anat.) The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.
||Pter`o*pap"pi (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; a feather, a bird + &?; ||a grandfather.] (Zool.) Same as OdontotormÊ.
Pter"o*phore (?), n. [Gr. &?; a feather + &?; to bear.] (Zoˆl.) Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.
Pter"o*pod (?), n. [Gr. &?; wing-footed; &?; a feather, wing + &?;, &?;, foot: cf. F. ptÈropode.] (Zoˆl.) One of the Pteropoda.
||Pte*rop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) A class of Mollusca in which ||the anterior lobes of the foot are developed in the form of broad, ||thin, winglike organs, with which they swim at near the surface of ||the sea.
The Pteropoda are divided into two orders: Cymnosomata, which have the body entirely naked and the head distinct from the wings; and Thecosomata, which have a delicate transparent shell of various forms, and the head not distinct from the wings.
Pte*rop"o*dous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Pteropoda.
Pter"o*saur (?), n. [Gr. &?; wind + &?; a lizard.] (Paleon.) A pterodactyl.
||Pter`o*sau"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Paleon.) An extinct order of ||flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also ||Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria.
The wings were formed, like those of bats, by a leathery expansion of the skin, principally supported by the greatly enlarged outer or " little" fingers of the hands. The American Cretaceous pterodactyls had no teeth. See Pteranodontia, and Pterodactyl.
Pter`o*sau"ri*an (?), a. (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to the Pterosauria.
||Pter`o*stig"ma (?), n.; pl. Pterostigmata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; wing ||+ &?;, &?;, a mark.] (Zoˆl.) A thickened opaque spot on the wings of ||certain insects.
Pte*ro"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?; wing + &?;, &?;, ear.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the proˆtic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes. -- n. The pterotic bone.
The pterotic bone is so called because fancied in some cases to resemble in form a bird's wing
||Pte*ryg"i*um (?), n.; pl. E. Pterygiums (#), L. Pterygia (#). [NL., ||fr. Gr. &?;, properly a dim, akin to &?; a feather.] (Med.) A ||superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner ||from the cornea over the surface of the eye.
Pter"y*goid (?), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a wing + -oid.] (Anat.) (a) Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone. (b) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone. -- n. A pterygoid bone.
Pterygoid bone (Anat.), a bone which corresponds to the inner plate of the pterygoid process of the human skull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space, called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.
Pter`y*go*max"il*la*ry (?), a. [Pterygoid + maxillary.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.
Pter`y*go*pal"a*tine (?), a. [Pterygoid + palatine.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.
||Pter`y*go*po"di*um (?), n.; pl. Pterygopodia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, ||&?;, a fin + &?;, dim. of &?;, &?;, a foot.] (Anat.) A specially ||modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves ||as a copulatory organ, or clasper.
Pter`y*go*quad"rate (?), a. [Pterygoid + quadrate.] (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.
||Pte*ry"la (?), n.; pl. PterylÊ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; feather + &?; ||wood, forest.] (Zoˆl.) One of the definite areas of the skin of a ||bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.
Pter`y*log"ra*phy (?), n. [Pteryla + -graphy.] (Zoˆl.) The study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pterylÊ, of birds.
||Pter`y*lo"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. NL. & E. pteryla.] (Zoˆl.) The ||arrangement of feathers in definite areas.
Ptil"o*cerque (?), n. [Gr. &?; a feather + &?; tail.] (Zool.) The pentail.
||Ptil`o*pÊ"des (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a feather + &?;, &?;, ||offspring.] (Zoˆl.) Same as DasypÊdes.
Ptil`o*pÊd"ic (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasypÊdic; -- said of the young of certain birds.
||Pti*lop"te*ri (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a downy feather + &?; ||wing.] (Zoˆl.) An order of birds including only the penguins.
||Pti*lo"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr &?; a feather.] (Zoˆl.) Same as ||Pterylosis.
Ptis"an (?), n. [L. ptisana peeled barley, barley water, Gr. &?;, from &?; to peel, husk; cf. F. ptisane, tisane.] 1. A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.
2. (Med.) An aqueous medicine, containing little, if any, medicinal agent; a tea or tisane.
Ptol`e*ma"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer.
Ptolemaic system (Astron.), the system maintained by Ptolemy, who supposed the earth to be fixed in the center of the universe, with the sun and stars revolving around it. This theory was received for ages, until superseded by the Copernican system.
Ptol"e*ma`ist (?), n. One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.
Pto"ma*ine (?), n. [From Gr. &?; a dead body.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.
||Pto"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a falling.] (Med.) Drooping of the ||upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.
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Pty"a*lin (?), n. [Gr. &?; spittle. See Ptyalism.] (Physiol. Chem.) An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.
Pty"a*lism (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to spit much, fr. &?; spittle, fr. &?; to spit: cf. F. ptyalisme.] Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva. Quain.
Pty*al"o*gogue (?), n. [Gr. &?; spittle + &?; driving.] (Med.) A ptysmagogue.
Ptys"ma*gogue (?), n. [Gr. &?; spittle + &?; driving: cf. F. ptysmagogue.] (Med.) A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.
||Ptyx"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a folding.] (Bot.) The way in which ||a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.
Pub"ble (?), a. [Perhaps fr. bubble.] Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat. [Obs.] Drant.
Pu"ber*al (?), a. [From L. puber, pubes, grown up, adult.] Of or pertaining to puberty.
Pu"ber*ty (?), n. [L. pubertas, fr. puber, pubes, adult: cf. F. pubertÈ.] 1. The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
2. (Bot.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.
Pu*ber"u*lent (?), a. [See Pubis.] (Bot.) Very minutely downy.
Pu"bes (?), n. [L., the hair which appears on the body at puberty, from pubes adult.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty. (b) Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.
2. (Bot.) The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.
Pu*bes"cence (?), n. [Cf. F. pubescence.] 1. The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty. Sir T. Browne.
2. A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
Pu*bes"cen*cy (?), n. Pubescence.
Pu*bes"cent (?), a. [L. pubescens, -entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent.] 1. Arrived at puberty.
That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth.
Sir T. Browne.
2. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.
Pu"bic (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes. (b) Of or pertaining to the pubis.
||Pu"bis (?), n. [NL. See Pubes.] (Anat.) The ventral and anterior of ||the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; ||sharebone; pubic bone.
Pub"lic (?), a. [L. publicus, poblicus, fr. populus people: cf. F. public. See People.] 1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.
To the public good Private respects must yield.
Milton.
He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
D. Webster.
2. Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal.
Joseph, . . . not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
Matt. i. 19.
3. Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house. "The public street." Shak.
Public act or statute (Law), an act or statute affecting matters of public concern. Of such statutes the courts take judicial notice. -- Public credit. See under Credit. -- Public funds. See Fund, 3. -- Public house, an inn, or house of entertainment. -- Public law. (a) See International law, under International. (b) A public act or statute. -- Public nuisance. (Law) See under Nuisance. -- Public orator. (Eng. Universities) See Orator, 3. -- Public stores, military and naval stores, equipments, etc. -- Public works, all fixed works built by civil engineers for public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed at the public cost.
Pub"lic, n. 1. The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a
## particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.
The public is more disposed to censure than to praise.
Addison.
2. A public house; an inn. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
In public, openly; before an audience or the people at large; not in private or secrecy. "We are to speak in public." Shak.
Pub"li*can (?), n. [L. publicanus: cf. F. publicain. See Public.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.
As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
Matt. 1x. 10.
How like a fawning publican he looks!
Shak.
2. The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.
Pub`li*ca"tion (?), n. [L. publicatio confiscation: cf. F. publication. See Publish.] 1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the 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, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.
The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others.
Swift.
3. That which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication.
4. An act done in public. [R. & Obs.]
His jealousy . . . attends the business, the recreations, the publications, and retirements of every man.
Jer. Taylor.
Publication of a libel (Law), such an exhibition of a libel as brings it to the notice of at least one person other than the person libeled. -- Publication of a will (Law), the delivery of a will, as his own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.
Pub"lic-heart`ed (?), a. Public- spirited. [R.]
Pub"li*cist (?), n. [Cf. F. publiciste.] A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.
The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians.
Macaulay.
Pub*lic"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. publicitÈ.] The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
Pub"lic*ly (?), adv. 1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.
2. In the name of the community. Addison.
Pub"lic-mind`ed (?), a. Public- spirited. -- Pub"lic-mind`ed*ness, n.
Pub"lic*ness, n. 1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale.
2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
Pub"lic-spir`it*ed (?), a. 1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public- spirited men.
2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison.
-- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, adv. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
Pub"lish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Published (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Publishing.] [F. publier, L. publicare, publicatum. See Public, and -ish.] 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
Published was the bounty of her name.
Chaucer.
The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand.
Addison.
2. To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.
3. To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.
4. To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper. [U.S.]
To publish a will (Law), to acknowledge it before the witnesses as the testator's last will and testament.
Syn. -- To announce; proclaim; advertise; declare; promulgate; disclose; divulge; reveal. See Announce.
Pub"lish*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being published; suitable for publication.
Pub"lish*er (?), n. One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.
For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense.
Shak.
Pub"lish*ment (?), n. 1. The act or process of making publicly known; publication.
2. A public notice of intended marriage, required by the laws of some States. [U.S.]
Puc*coon" (?), n. [From the American Indian name.] (Bot.) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.
Puce (?), a. [F., fr. puce a flea, L. pulex, pulicis.] Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.
Pu"cel (?), n. See Pucelle. [Obs.]
Pu"cel*age (?; 48), n. [F.] Virginity. [R.]
||Pu*celle" (?), n. [F., fr. LL. pulicella, fr. L. pullus a young ||animal. See Pullet.] A maid; a virgin. [Written also pucel.] [Obs.]
Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan.
B. Jonson.
La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.
Pu"ce*ron (?), n. [F., from puce a flea. See Puce.] (Zoˆl.) Any plant louse, or aphis.
Pu"cher*ite (?), n. [So named from the Pucher Mine, in Saxony.] (Min.) Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.