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- English Word Pumicate Definition To make smooth with pumice.
- English Word Pumicated Definition of Pumicate
- English Word Pumicating Definition of Pumicate
- English Word Pumice Definition A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
- English Word Pumice stone Definition Same as Pumice.
- English Word Pumiced Definition Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.
- English Word Pumiceous Definition Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
- English Word Pumiciform Definition Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.
- English Word Pummace Definition Same as Pomace.
- English Word Pummel Definition Same as Pommel.
- English Word Pump Definition A low shoe with a thin sole.
- English Word Pump Definition An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.
- English Word Pump Definition To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
- English Word Pump Definition To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
- English Word Pump Definition Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.
- English Word Pump Definition To work, or raise water, a pump.
- English Word Pumpage Definition That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
- English Word Pumped Definition of Pump
- English Word Pumper Definition One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
- English Word Pumpernickel Definition A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.
- English Word Pumpet Definition A pompet.
- English Word pumping Definition of Pump
- English Word Pumping Definition a. & n. from pump.
- English Word Pumpion Definition See Pumpkin.
- English Word Pumpkin Definition A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
- English Word Pumy Definition Large and rounded.
- English Word Pun Definition To pound.
- English Word Pun Definition A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.
- English Word Pun Definition To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.
- English Word Pun Definition To persuade or affect by a pun.