A puisny tilter, that spurs his horse but on one side.
Shak.
Pu"is*sance, n. [F., fr. puissant. See Puissant, and cf. Potency,
Potance, Potence.] Power; strength; might; force; potency. " Youths of
puissance." Tennyson.
The power and puissance of the king.
Shak.
In Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, puissance and puissant are usually
dissyllables.
Pu"is*sant (?), a. [F., originally, a p. pr. formed fr. L. posse to be
able: cf. L. potens powerful. See Potent.] Powerful; strong; mighty;
forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire. " Puissant deeds." Milton.
Of puissant nations which the world possessed.
Spenser.
And worldlings in it are less merciful, And more puissant.
Mrs. Browning.
Pu"is*sant*ly, adv. In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great
strength.
Pu"is*sant*ness, n. The state or quality of being puissant; puissance;
power.
||Puit (?), n. [F. puits, from L. puteus well.] A well; a small stream;
||a fountain; a spring. [Obs.]
The puits flowing from the fountain of life.
Jer. Taylor.
Puke (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Puking.] [Cf.
G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.] To eject the contests of the stomach;
to vomit; to spew.
The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Shak.
Puke, v. t. To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
Puke, n. A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
Puke, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Of a color supposed to be between black
and russet. Shak.
This color has by some been regarded as the same with puce; but Nares
questions the identity.
Puk"er (?), n. 1. One who pukes, vomits.