||Pu*celle" (?), n. [F., fr. LL. pulicella, fr. L. pullus a young
||animal. See Pullet.] A maid; a virgin. [Written also pucel.] [Obs.]
Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan.
B. Jonson.
La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.
Pu"ce*ron (?), n. [F., from puce a flea. See Puce.] (Zoˆl.) Any plant
louse, or aphis.
Pu"cher*ite (?), n. [So named from the Pucher Mine, in Saxony.] (Min.)
Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.
Puck (?), n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. pki an evil demon, W.
pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. Poker a bugbear, Pug.] 1. (MediÊval Myth.) A
celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also
Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc. Shak.
He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth
fall.
Drayton.