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Prox`e*ne"tism (?), n. [Gr. &?; agent + -ism; cf. F. proxénétisme.] The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring.

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Psy`cha*nal"y*sis (?), n. [Psycho- + analysis.] A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- --) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that hysteria is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, stress being laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion. -- Psy*chan`a*lyt"ic (#), a. -- Psy`cha*nal"y*sist (#), n.

Psy`cho*a*nal"y*sis (?), n. -- Psy`cho*an`a*lyt"ic, a. etc. = Psychanalysis, Psychanalytic.

Psy`cho*ther`a*peu"tics (?), n. [Psycho- + therapeutics.] (Med.) The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

Psy`cho*ther"a*py (?), n. [Psycho- + therapy.] (Med.) Psychotherapeutics.

Publicity pamphlet. A pamphlet which, in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed law and arguments for and against it by those favoring and opposing it, respectively.

Public school. (a) In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this class. (b) In the United States, a free primary, grammar, or high school maintained by the local government.

{ Public-service corporation or sometimes Quasi-public corporation }. A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

Puck (?), n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.

||Puck"a (?), a. [Written also pukka.] [Hind. pakk cooked, ripe, solid.] Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar. [India]

It's pukka famine, by the looks of it.

Kipling.

{ Pud"ding fish, Pudding wife }. [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.] (Zoöl.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.

||Pug (?), n. [Hind. pag foot.] A footprint; a track; as of a boar. [India]

Pug"ga*ree (?), n. Same as Puggry.

{ Pug"gry (?), Pug"gree (?) }, n. [Written also puggaree, puggeree, etc.] [Hind. pagi turban.] A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun. [India] Yule.

A blue-gray felt hat with a gold puggaree.

Kipling.

||Puk"ka (?), a. Same as Pucka. [India]

Pull"dev`il (?), n. A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish.

Pul*mom"e*try (?), n. [L. pulmo a lung + -metry.] The determination of the capacity of the lungs.

Pul"mo`tor (?), n. [L. pulmo lung + E. motor.] An apparatus for producing artificial respiration by pumping oxygen or air or a mixture of the two into and out of the lungs, as of a person who has been asphyxiated by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, or the like, or of one who has been stunned by an electrical shock.

||Pu"na (?), n. [Sp., of Peruv. origin.] A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.

Pun"ish, v. t. To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest; as, our troops punished the enemy. [Colloq. or Slang]

Pun"ish*ment (?), n. Severe, rough, or disastrous treatment. [Colloq. or Slang]

Punk"ie (?), n. [Orig. unknown.] A minute biting fly of the genus Ceratopogon or allied genus of the family Chironomidæ, found in swarms in various densely wooded or mountaneous regions. [U. S.]

Punt, v. i. 1. To boat or hunt in a punt.