Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PUT'TER-ON, n.

An inciter or instigator. – Shak.

PUT'TING, ppr. [from put.]

Setting; placing; laying.

PUT'TING-STONE, n.

In Scotland, a stone laid at the gates of great houses for trials of strength. – Johnson. Pope.

PUT'TOC, n.

A kite. – Spenser.

PUTTOCK-SHROUDS, n. [Puttock shrouds.]

Probably a mistake for Futtock-shrouds.

PUT'TY, n. [Sp. and Port. potea.]

1. A kind of paste or cement compounded of whiting or soft carbonate of lime and lintseed oil, beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough; used in fastening glass in sashes and in stopping crevices.
2. A powder of calcined tin, used in polishing glass and steel. – Encyc.

PUZ'ZLE, n.

Perplexity; embarrassment. – Bacon.

PUZ'ZLE, v.i.

To be bewildered; to be awkward. – L'Estrange.

PUZ'ZLE, v.t. [from the root of pose, – which see.]

1. To perplex; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to gravel. A shrewd disputant in those points, is dexterous in puzzling others. – More. He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders. – Addison.
2. To make intricate; to entangle. The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, / Puzzl'd in mazes and perplex'd with error. – Addison.

PUZ'ZLED, pp.

Perplexed; intricate; put to a stand.

PUZ'ZLE-HEAD-ED, a.

Having the head full of confused notions. – Johnson.

PUZ'ZLER, n.

One that perplexes.

PUZ'ZLING, ppr.

Perplexing; embarrassing; bewildering.

PUZ-ZO-LA'NA, n.

A loose porous volcanic substance or stone.

PYC'NITE, n. [Qu. Gr. πυκνος, compact.]

A mineral, the shorlite of Kirwan, or shorlous topaz of Jameson. It usually appears in long irregular prisms or cylinders, longitudinally striated, and united in bundles. – Werner. Cleaveland.

PYC'NO-STYLE, n. [Gr. πυκνος, thick, and στυλος, column.]

In ancient architecture, a building where the columns stand very close to each other; only one diameter and a half of the column being allowed to each intercolumniation. – Encyc.

PYE, n. [probably a contracted word, and the same as pie, a mass.]

A confused mass; the state of printing type when the sorts are mixed.

PYE, n.

A bird. [See Pie.]

PY'GARG, or PY-GARG'US, n. [Gr. πυγαργος.]

A fowl of the genus Falco, the female of the hen harrier. – Ed. Encyc.

PYG-ME'AN, a.

Pertaining to a pygmy or dwarf; very small; dwarfish. – Milton.

PYG'MY, n. [Fr. pygmée; It. pigmeo; L. pygmæus; Gr. μυγμαιος, from μυγμη, the fist; as big as the fist.]

A dwarf; a person not exceeding a cubit in highth. This appellation was given by the ancients to a fabulous race of beings inhabiting Thrace, who waged war with the cranes and were destroyed. – Encyc.

PYL'A-GORE, n. [Gr. πυλαγορας.]

In ancient Greece, a delegate or representative of a city, sent to the Amphictyonic council. – Mitford.

PY-LOR'IC, a.

Pertaining to the pylorus; as, the pyloric artery.

PY-LO'RUS, n. [Gr. πυλωρος, from πυλη, a gate.]

The lower and right orifice of the stomach. – Coxe.

PYR'A-CANTH, n. [Gr. πυρακανθα, fiery thorn.]

A plant; a kind of thorn found in the south of Europe, of the genus Cratægus.