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Pumicate
v. t.
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To make smooth with pumice.
Pumice
n.
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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.
Pumiced
a.
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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.
Pumiceous
a.
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Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
Pumice stone
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Same as Pumice.
Pumiciform
a.
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Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.
Pummace
n.
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Same as Pomace.
Pummel
n. & v. t.
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Same as Pommel.
Pump
n.
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A low shoe with a thin sole.
Pump
n.
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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.
Pumped
imp. & p. p.
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of Pump
pumping
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Pump
Pump
v. t.
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To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
Pump
v. t.
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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.
Pump
v. t.
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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.
Pump
v. i.
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To work, or raise water, a pump.
Pumpage
n.
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That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
Pumper
n.
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One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
Pumpernickel
n.
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A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.
Pumpet
n.
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A pompet.
Pumping
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a. & n. from pump.
Pumpion
n.
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See Pumpkin.
Pumpkin
n.
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A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
Pumy
a.
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Large and rounded.
Pun
v. t.
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To pound.
Pun
n.
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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.
Punned
imp. & p. p.
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of Pun
Punning
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Pun
Pun
v. i.
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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.
Pun
v. t.
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To persuade or affect by a pun.