Part 667

Shak.

The rewards and punishments of another life.

Locke.

3. (Law) A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention.

Pu*ni"tion (?), n. [L. punitio: cf. F. punition. See Punish.] Punishment. [R.] Mir. for Mag.

Pu"ni*tive (?), a. Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence.

I. Taylor.

We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.

Bagehot.

Pu"ni*to*ry (?), a. Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.

God . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory.

A. Tucker.

Punk (?), n. [Cf. Spunk.] 1. Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

2. A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.

3. An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.

4. A prostitute; a strumpet. [Obsoles.] Shak.

||Pun"ka (?), n. [Hind. pankh fan.] A machine for fanning a room, ||usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended ||from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord. [Hindostan] ||[Written also punkah.] Malcom.

Pun"kin (?), n. A pumpkin. [Colloq. U. S.]

Punk"ling (?), n. A young strumpet. [Obs.]

Pun"ner (?), n. A punster. Beau. & Fl.

Pun"net (?), n. [Cf. Ir. buinne a shoot, branch.] A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

Pun*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Pun + - logy.] The art or practice of punning; paronomasia. [R.] Pope.

Pun"ster (?), n. One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit.

Punt (?), v. i. [F. ponter, or It. puntare, fr. L. punctum point. See Point.] To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.

She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables.

Thackeray.

Punt, n. Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.