PUG

To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

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.

Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

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.

An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A name for a monkey. [Colloq.] Addison.

A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] Lyly.

Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] Holland.

A prostitute. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.

Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.