Word Meanings - PULING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering. Leave this faint puling and lament as I do. Shak.

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• PULICENE
  Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• PULSE
  Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.
• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• 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
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• PULMOBRANCHIATA; PULMOBRANCHIATE
  See -ATE (more info) & n.
• 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.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• PULING
  A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering. Leave this faint puling and lament as I do. Shak.
• WHINYARD
  from AS. winn contention, war + geard, gyrd, a staff, rod, yard; or 1. A sword, or hanger. 2. Etym: The shoveler. The poachard.
• PULVIL
  A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio. Gay.
• WHINE
  A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
• 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
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• 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.
• LAMENTED
  Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
• LEAVENING
  1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
• PULPITED
  Placed in a pulpit. Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.
• 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.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• SERPULITE
  A fossil serpula shell.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• 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.
• SUBSCAPULAR; SUBSCAPULARY
  Situated beneath the scapula; infrascapular; as, the subscapular muscle.