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- English Word Puttock Definition The buzzard.
- English Word Puttock Definition The marsh harrier.
- English Word Puttock Definition See Futtock.
- English Word Putty Definition A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
- English Word Putty Definition To cement, or stop, with putty.
- English Word Putty-faced Definition White-faced; -- used contemptuously.
- English Word Puttying Definition of Putty
- English Word Puttyroot Definition An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.
- English Word Puy Definition See Poy.
- English Word Puzzel Definition A harlot; a drab; a hussy.
- English Word Puzzier Definition One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes.
- English Word Puzzle Definition Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
- English Word Puzzle Definition The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
- English Word Puzzle Definition To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
- English Word Puzzle Definition To make intricate; to entangle.
- English Word Puzzle Definition To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
- English Word Puzzle Definition To be bewildered, or perplexed.
- English Word Puzzle Definition To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
- English Word Puzzle-headed Definition Having the head full of confused notions.
- English Word Puzzled Definition of Puzzle