Word Meanings - PULU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 absorbent.

Related words: (words related to PULU)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• SUBSTANCE
  To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• GATHER
  1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. When small humors gather to a gout. Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson. 2. To grow larger
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CHAFFER
  1. To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser. 2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• HAWAIIAN
  Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii. -- n.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• STUFFING
  Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• BROWNNESS
  The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• UNELASTICITY
  Inelasticity.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.