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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pluck  \Pluck\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Plucked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Plucking}.]  [AS.  pluccian  akin  to  LG  &  D.  plukken  G. 
  pfl["u]cken,  Icel.  plokka,  plukka,  Dan.  plukke  Sw  plocka 
  ?27.] 
  1.  To  pull  to  draw. 
 
  Its  own  nature  .  .  .  plucks  on  its  own  dissolution. 
  --Je?.  Taylor. 
 
  2.  Especially,  to  pull  with  sudden  force  or  effort,  or  to 
  pull  off  or  out  from  something  with  a  twitch;  to  twitch; 
  also  to  gather,  to  pick  as  to  pluck  feathers  from  a 
  fowl;  to  pluck  hair  or  wool  from  a  skin;  to  pluck  grapes. 
 
  I  come  to  pluck  your  berries  harsh  and  crude. 
  --Milton. 
 
  E'en  children  followed,  with  endearing  wile,  And 
  plucked  his  gown  to  share  the  good  man's  smile. 
  --Goldsmith. 
 
  3.  To  strip  of  or  as  of  feathers;  as  to  pluck  a  fowl. 
 
  They  which  pass  by  the  way  do  pluck  her  --Ps. 
  lxxx.?2. 
 
  4.  (Eng.  Universities)  To  reject  at  an  examination  for 
  degrees.  --C.  Bront['e]. 
 
  {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  off  the 
  skin. 
 
  {to  pluck  up}. 
  a  To  tear  up  by  the  roots  or  from  the  foundation;  to 
  eradicate;  to  exterminate;  to  destroy;  as  to  pluck  up 
  a  plant;  to  pluck  up  a  nation.  --Jer.  xii.  17. 
  b  To  gather  up  to  summon;  as  to  pluck  up  courage. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plucked  \Plucked\,  a. 
  Having  courage  and  spirit.  [R.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  plucked 
  adj  1:  (music)  of  a  stringed  instrument;  sounded  with  the  fingers 
  or  a  plectrum  [ant:  {bowed}] 
  2:  having  the  feathers  removed,  as  from  a  pelt  or  a  fowl;  "a 
  plucked  chicken";  "an  unfeathered  goose"




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