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- English Word Puberty Definition The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
- English Word Puberty Definition The period when a plant first bears flowers.
- English Word Puberulent Definition Very minutely downy.
- English Word Pubes Definition The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty.
- English Word Pubes Definition Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.
- English Word Pubes Definition The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.
- English Word Pubescence Definition The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.
- English Word Pubescence Definition A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
- English Word Pubescency Definition Pubescence.
- English Word Pubescent Definition Arrived at puberty.
- English Word Pubescent Definition Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.
- English Word Pubic Definition Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes.
- English Word Pubic Definition Of or pertaining to the pubis.
- English Word Pubis Definition The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.
- English Word Public Definition Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.
- English Word Public Definition Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal.
- English Word Public Definition Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house.
- English Word Public Definition The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.
- English Word Public Definition A public house; an inn.
- English Word Public-hearted Definition Public-spirited.
- English Word Public-minded Definition Public-spirited.
- English Word Public-spirited Definition Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men.
- English Word Public-spirited Definition Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure.
- English Word Publican Definition A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.
- English Word Publican Definition The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.
- English Word Publication Definition The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.
- English Word Publication Definition The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.
- English Word Publication Definition That which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication.
- English Word Publication Definition An act done in public.
- English Word Publicist Definition A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.