Part 653

Pug" nose` (?). A short, thick nose; a snubnose. -- Pug"-nosed` (#), a.

Pug-nose eel (Zoˆl.), a deep- water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.

Puh (?), interj. The same as Pugh.

Puis"ne (p"n), a. [See Puny.] 1. Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. [Obs.] " A puisne date to eternity." Sir M. Hale.

2. Puny; petty; unskilled. [Obs.]

3. (Law) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. Blackstone.

Puis"ne, n. One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.

It were not a work for puisnes and novices.

Bp. Hall.

Puis"ny (?), a. Puisne; younger; inferior; petty; unskilled. [R.]

A puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side.

Shak.

Pu"is*sance, n. [F., fr. puissant. See Puissant, and cf. Potency, Potance, Potence.] Power; strength; might; force; potency. " Youths of puissance." Tennyson.

The power and puissance of the king.

Shak.

In Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, puissance and puissant are usually dissyllables.

Pu"is*sant (?), a. [F., originally, a p. pr. formed fr. L. posse to be able: cf. L. potens powerful. See Potent.] Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire. " Puissant deeds." Milton.

Of puissant nations which the world possessed.

Spenser.

And worldlings in it are less merciful, And more puissant.

Mrs. Browning.

Pu"is*sant*ly, adv. In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great strength.

Pu"is*sant*ness, n. The state or quality of being puissant; puissance; power.

||Puit (?), n. [F. puits, from L. puteus well.] A well; a small stream; ||a fountain; a spring. [Obs.]

The puits flowing from the fountain of life.

Jer. Taylor.

Puke (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Puking.] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.] To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.