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  6  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pug  \Pug\,  n.  [Hind.  pag  foot.] 
  A  footprint;  a  track;  as  of  a  boar.  [India] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Puck  \Puck\,  n.  [OE.  pouke;  cf  OSw.  puke,  Icel.  p[=u]ki  an  evil 
  demon,  W.  pwca  a  hobgoblin.  Cf  {Poker}  a  bugbear,  {Pug}.] 
  1.  (Medi[ae]val  Myth.)  A  celebrated  fairy,  ``the  merry 
  wanderer  of  the  night;''  --  called  also  {Robin 
  Goodfellow},  {Friar  Rush},  {Pug},  etc  --Shak. 
 
  He  meeteth  Puck,  whom  most  men  call  Hobgoblin,  and 
  on  him  doth  fall.  --Drayton. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  The  goatsucker.  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pug  \Pug\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pugged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Pugging}.]  [Cf.  G.  pucken  to  thump.  beat.] 
  1.  To  mix  and  stir  when  wet,  as  clay  for  bricks,  pottery, 
  etc 
 
  2.  To  fill  or  stop  with  clay  by  tamping;  to  fill  in  or  spread 
  with  mortar,  as  a  floor  or  partition,  for  the  purpose  of 
  deadening  sound.  See  {Pugging},  2. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pug  \Pug\,  n. 
  1.  Tempered  clay;  clay  moistened  and  worked  so  as  to  be 
  plastic. 
 
  2.  A  pug  mill. 
 
  {Pug  mill},  a  kind  of  mill  for  grinding  and  mixing  clay, 
  either  for  brickmaking  or  the  fine  arts;  a  clay  mill.  It 
  consists  essentially  of  an  upright  shaft  armed  with 
  projecting  knives,  which  is  caused  to  revolve  in  a  hollow 
  cylinder,  tub,  or  vat,  in  which  the  clay  is  placed. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pug  \Pug\,  n.  [Corrupted  fr  puck.  See  {Puck}.] 
  1.  An  elf,  or  a  hobgoblin;  also  same  as  {Puck}.  [Obs.]  --B. 
  Jonson 
 
  2.  A  name  for  a  monkey.  [Colloq.]  --Addison. 
 
  3.  A  name  for  a  fox.  [Prov.  Eng.]  --C.  Kingsley. 
 
  4.  An  intimate;  a  crony;  a  dear  one  [Obs.]  --Lyly. 
 
  5.  pl  Chaff;  the  refuse  of  grain.  [Obs.]  --Holland. 
 
  6.  A  prostitute.  [Obs.]  --Cotgrave. 
 
  7.  (Zo["o]l.)  One  of  a  small  breed  of  pet  dogs  having  a  short 
  nose  and  head;  a  pug  dog. 
 
  8.  (Zo["o]l.)  Any  geometrid  moth  of  the  genus  {Eupithecia}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pug 
  n  :  small  compact  smooth-coated  breed  of  Asiatic  origin  having  a 
  tightly  curled  tail  and  broad  flat  wrinkled  muzzle  [syn: 
  {pug-dog}]




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