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A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [Obs.] Shak.

To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously. I puff the prostitute away. Dryden.

White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.

to allege something disgracefull against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ. 1 Peter iv. 14. That this newcomer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean. Milton. Mezentius . . . with his ardor warmed His fainting friends, repr…

inus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy. Nares. Instead of a faithful and painful teacher, they hire a Sir John, which hath better skill in playing at tables, or in keeping of a garden, than in God's word. Latimer.…

A tooth projecting beyond the rest; contemptuously, a broken or decayed tooth. Prior.

To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.

A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.

r, etc. " Turn these ideas about in your mind." I. Watts. -- To turn off. (a) To dismiss contemptuously; as, to turn off a sycophant or a parasite. (b) To give over; to reduce. (c) To divert; to deflect; as, to turn off the thoughts from serious subjects; to turn off a joke. (d) To accomplish; to perform, as work. (e)…