PUTREFACTIVE
PUTREFAC'TIVE, adjective Pertaining to putrefaction; as the putrefactive smell or process.1. Tending to promote putrefaction; causing putrefaction.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PUTREFIED
PU'TREFIED, participle passive Dissolved; rotten.
PUTREFY
PU'TREFY, verb transitive [Latin putrefacio; putris, putrid, and facio, to make.]1. To cause to dissolve; to disorganize and reduce to the simple constituent elements, as animal...
PUTRESCENCE
PUTRES'CENCE, noun [from Latin putrescens, putresco.]The state of dissolving, as an animal or vegetable substance; a putrid state.
PUTRESCENT
PUTRES'CENT, adjective Becoming putrid; passing from an organized state into the constituent elements.1. Pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as a putrescent smell.
PUTRESCIBLE
PUTRES'CIBLE, adjective That may be putrefied; liable to become putrid; as putrescible substances.
PUTRID
PU'TRID, adjective [Latin putridus, from putris, putreo.]1. In a state of dissolution or disorganization, as animal and vegetable bodies; corrupt; rotten; as putrid flesh. Indic...
PUTRIDITY
PUTRID'ITY, noun The state of being putrid; corruption.
PUTRIDNESS
PU'TRIDNESSPU'TRY, adjective Rotten. [Not used.]
PUTRY
PU'TRY, a. Rotten. [Not used.]
PUTTER
PUT'TER, noun [from put.] One who puts or places.
PUTTER-ON
PUT'TER-ON, noun An inciter or instigator.
PUTTING
PUT'TING, participle present tense [from put.] Setting; placing; laying.
PUTTING-STONE
PUT'TING-STONE, noun In Scotland, a stone laid at the gates of great houses for trials of strength.
PUTTOC
PUT'TOC, noun A kite.shrouds, probably a mistake for futtoc-shrouds.
PUTTY
PUT'TY, noun A kind of paste or cement compounded of whiting and linseed oil, beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough; used in fastening glass in sashes and in stopping cr...
PUZZLE
PUZ'ZLE, verb transitive [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 puzzlin...
PUZZLE-HEADED
PUZ'ZLE-HEADED, adjective Having the head full of confused notions.
PUZZLED
PUZ'ZLED, participle passive Perplexed; intricate; put to a stand.
PUZZLER
PUZ'ZLER, noun One that perplexes.
PUZZLING
PUZ'ZLING, participle present tense Perplexing; embarrassing; bewildering.
PUZZOLAN
PUZ'ZOLANPUZZOLA'NA, noun A loose porous volcanic substance or stone.
PUZZOLANA
PUZZOLA'NA, n. A loose porous volcanic substance or stone.
PYCNITE
PYC'NITE, noun [Gr. compact.] A mineral, the shorlite of Kirwan, or shorlous topaz of Jameson. It usually appears in long irregular prisms or cylinders, longitudinally striated,...
PYCNOSTYLE
PYC'NOSTYLE, noun [Gr. thick, and 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...
PYE
PYE, noun [probably a contracted word, and the same as pie, a mass.]A confused mass; the state of printing types when the sorts are mixed.PYE, noun A bird. [See Pie.]
PYGARG
PY'GARGPYG'ARGUS, noun [Gr.] A fowl of the genus Falco, the female of the hen harrier.