Word Meanings - HALLOWMAS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.

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• PULICENE
  Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.
• PULSE
  Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.
• PULU
  A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an
• PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
  See -ATE (more info) & n.
• PULP
  A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter. Specifically: A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp
• PULE
  piauler; cf. L. pipilare, pipire, to peep, pip, chirp, and E. peep to 1. To cry like a chicken. Bacon. 2. To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule. Barrow.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• PULING
  A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering. Leave this faint puling and lament as I do. Shak.
• PULVIL
  A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio. Gay.
• PULVERIZATION
  The action of reducing to dust or powder.
• PULCHRITUDE
  1. That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. Piercing our heartes with thy pulchritude. Court of Love. 2. Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty. By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• PULMONATA
  An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air- breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnæa and Planorbis.
• BEGGAR
  1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument
• PULPITED
  Placed in a pulpit. Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.
• PULPITER
  A preacher.
• PULMONARIAN
  Any arachnid that breathes by lunglike organs, as the spiders and scorpions. Also used adjectively.
• PULPITISH
  Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers.
• PULKHA
  A Laplander's traveling sledge. See Sledge.
• PULVERABLE
  Capable of being reduced to fine powder. Boyle.
• PRESCAPULA
  The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
• EPULARY
  Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet. Smart.
• PILPUL
  Among the Jews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study. -- Pil"pul*ist , n. --Pil`pul*is"tic , a.
• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• SERPULITE
  A fossil serpula shell.
• CONE PULLEY
  A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.
• POPULIN
  A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar , and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.
• REPULSER
  One who repulses, or drives back.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.
• COMPULSATORY
  Operating with force; compelling; forcing; constraininig; resulting from, or enforced by, compulsion. To recover of us, by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands. Shak.
• ALL SAINTS; ALL SAINTS'
  The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
• SUBSCAPULAR; SUBSCAPULARY
  Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.
• PIPPUL TREE
  See TREE
• CUPULE
  A cuplet or little cup, as the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.