Pun"ner (?), n. A punster. Beau. & Fl.
Pun"net (?), n. [Cf. Ir. buinne a shoot, branch.] A broad, shallow
basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.
Pun*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Pun + - logy.] The art or practice of punning;
paronomasia. [R.] Pope.
Pun"ster (?), n. One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning;
a quibbler; a low wit.
Punt (?), v. i. [F. ponter, or It. puntare, fr. L. punctum point. See
Point.] To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables.
Thackeray.
Punt, n. Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
Punt, n. [AS., fr. L. ponto punt, pontoon. See Pontoon.] (Naut.) A
flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow
waters.
Punt, v. t. 1. To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a
pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
Livingstone.
2. (Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let
fall from the hands.
Punt, n. (Football) The act of punting the ball.
Punt"er (?), n.[Cf. F. ponte. See Punt, v. t.] One who punts;
specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara
and faro. Hoyle.
Punt"er, n. One who punts a football; also, one who propels a punt.
{ Pun"til (?), Pun"tel (?) }, n. (Glass Making) See Pontee.
Pun"to (?), n. [It. punto, L. punctum point. See Point.] (Fencing) A
point or hit.
||Punto diritto [It.], a direct stroke or hit. -- ||Punto reverso [It.
||riverso reverse], a backhanded stroke. Halliwell. "Ah, the immortal
||passado! the punto reverso!" Shak.
Pun"ty (?), n. (Glass Making) See Pontee.
Pu"ny (?), a. [Compar. Punier (?); superl. Puniest.] [F. puÓtÈ younger,
later born, OF. puisnÈ; puis afterwards (L. post; see Post-) + nÈ born,
L. natus. See Natal, and cf. Puisne.] Imperfectly developed in size or
vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.
A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
Shak.
Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.
Keble.
Pu"ny (?), n. A youth; a novice. [R.] Fuller.
Puoy (?), n. Same as Poy, n., 3.
Pup (?), n. [See Puppy.] (Zoˆl.) (a) A young dog; a puppy. (b) a young
seal.
Pup, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pupped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pupping.] To bring
forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
Pu"pa (?), n.; pl. L. Pup&?; (#), E. Pupas (#). [L. pupa girl. doll,
puppet, fem. of pupus. Cf. Puppet.] 1. (Zoˆl.) Any insect in that stage
of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or
imago, stage.
Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera,
Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the
lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the
imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the
wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes
applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development.
2. (Zoˆl.) A genus of air- breathing land snails having an elongated
spiral shell.
Coarctate, or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up
skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. -- Masked pupa, a pupa whose
limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as
in Lepidoptera.
Pu"pal (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of
a pupa.
Pu"pate (?), v. i. (Zoˆl.) To become a pupa.
Pu*pa"tion (?), n. (Zoˆl.) the act of becoming a pupa.
Pupe (?), n. [F.] (Zoˆl.) A pupa.
Pu*pe"lo (?), n. Cider brandy. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.
Pu*pig"er*ous, a. [Pupa + - gerous.] (Zoˆl.) Bearing or containing a
pupa; -- said of dipterous larvÊ which do not molt when the pupa is
formed within them.
Pu"pil (?), n. [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of the eye,
originally dim. of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar.]
(Anat.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the
eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.
Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it
sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole.
Dunglison.
Pu"pil, n. [F. pupille, n. masc. & fem., L. pupillus, pupilla, dim. of
pupus boy, pupa girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil of the eye.] 1. A youth
or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
Too far in years to be a pupil now.
Shak.
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
L'Estrange.