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580 words match “FULLER”

PUDDLE n.
d, when wet, to render it impervious to water. Puddle poet, a low or worthless poet. [R.] Fuller.
PUNCTILIO n.
ic ceremony. They will not part with the least punctilio in their opinions and practices. Fuller .
PUNY n.
A youth; a novice. [R.] Fuller.
PURE a.
ts. Pure-impure, completely or totally impure. "The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans." Fuller. -- Pure blue. (Chem.) See Methylene blue, under Methylene. -- Pure chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Pure mathematics, that portion of mathematics which treats of the principles of the science, or contradistinction to…
PURGE n.
t of purging. The preparative for the purge of paganism of the kingdom of Northumberland. Fuller.
PURSUIT n.
.] That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit (Geom.), a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according to some specified law.
PURSUIVANT v.
To pursue. [Obs. & R.] Their navy was pursuivanted after with a horrible tempest. Fuller.
QUALIFICATIVE n.
nt. How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth in this relation. Fuller.
QUEENCRAFT n.
part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.
QUICK n.
feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference ! Fuller.
RACK v. 2 definitions
amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse. Fuller.
RAG n.
gs. Milton. Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty. Fuller.
RASE v.
erase. [Obsoles.] Except we rase the faculty of memory, root and branch, out of our mind. Fuller.
RATHRIPE a.
A rareripe. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Such who delight in rathripe fruits. Fuller.
REACHER n.
An exaggeration. [Obs.] Fuller.
REALITY n.
Loyalty; devotion. [Obs.] To express our reality to the emperor. Fuller.
REBUS v.
a rebus. He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it. Fuller.
RECLAIM v.
To exclaim against; to gainsay. [Obs.] Fuller.
RECORD v.
onder. [Obs.] Praying all the way, and recording upon the words which he before had read. Fuller.
RECOVER v.
one's way; to come; to arrive. [Obs.] With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch. Fuller.
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