Word Meanings - PULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• WHINE
  A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
• CHIRPER
  One who chirps, or is cheerful.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• BARROW
  A heap of rubbish, attle, etc. (more info) mound; akin to G. berg mountain, Goth. bairgahei hill, hilly country, and perh. to Skr. b high, OIr. brigh mountain. Cf. Berg, Berry a 1. A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead;
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• GALLANTNESS
  The quality of being gallant.
• COMPLAINTFUL
  Full of complaint.
• COMPLAINANT
  1. One who makes complaint. Eager complainants of the dispute. Collier. One who commences a legal process by a complaint. The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law. He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town, and
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• COMPLAIN
  plangere to strike, beat, to beat the breast or head as a sign of 1. To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• WATER CHICKEN
  The common American gallinule.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• WHIMPER
  To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain; as, a child whimpers. Was there ever yet preacher but there were gainsayers that spurned, that winced, that whimpered against him Latimer. (more info) Etym:
• CHIRP
  To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.