Word Meanings - PULLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Plucked; pilled; moulting. " A pulled hen." Chaucer.

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• PILLER
  One who pills or plunders.
• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• PILLARED
  Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• PILLORY
  A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak. (more info) LL. piloricum, pilloricum, pellericum, pellorium, pilorium,
• PILLAR
  A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church. Skelton. (more info) 1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or
• PILLAU
  An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter.
• PULLICATE
  A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.
• PILL
  The peel or skin. "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.
• PLUCK
  To reject at an examination for degrees. C. Bronté. To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. -- To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. -- to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck
• PILLWORT
  Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.
• PLUCKINESS
  The quality or state of being plucky.
• PILLION
  A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. His shank pillion without stirrups. Spenser. (more info) pillin), fr. Ir. & Gael. pill, peall, a skin
• PILLWORM
  Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.
• PILLED-GARLIC
  See PILGARLIC
• PLUCKY
  Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.
• PILLOW LACE
  Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.
• PULLULATION
  A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More.
• PILLAR-BLOCK
  See PILLOW
• PULLEY
  A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. Note: The pulley, as one
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• CONE PULLEY
  A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.
• PAPILLARY
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
• LAPILLATION
  The state of being, or the act of making, stony.
• PAPILLIFORM
  Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• CAPILLARITY
  The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid , is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction. Note: Capillarity depends upon the relative attaction of the modecules of the liquid for each other and
• VALLET'S PILLS
  Pills containing sulphate of iron and carbonate of sodium, mixed with saccharine matter; -- called also Vallet's mass.
• REPULLULATE
  To bud again. Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell.
• WIRE-PULLER
  One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. Political wire-pullers and convention packers. Lowell.
• PAPILLOUS
  Papillary; papillose.
• CAPILLIFORM
  In the shape or form of, a hair, or of hairs.
• CAPILLAIRE
  1. A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties. 2. Any simple sirup flavored with orange flowers.
• CAPILLATION
  A capillary blood vessel. Sir T. Browne.