PPage 711
- 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.