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an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope. To pull apart, to become separated by pulling; as, a rope will pull apart. -- To pull up, to draw the reins; to stop; to halt. To pull through, to come successfully to the end of a difficult undertaking, a dangerous sickness, or the like.…

To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as, the stone pulverizes easily.

. . did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short. Pepys.

To become a pupa.

To become pure, as by clarification.

To grow or become pure or clear.

"His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly and essentially a mixed tongue for his doctrine of purism to be admitted to the letter. Craik.

To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot. Isa. 1. 6.

To become putrescent or putrid; to putrefy.

Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances.

A substance which becomes electrically polar when heated, exhibiting opposite charges of statical electricity at two separate parts, especially the two extremities.

A mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is said to change its color and become transparent by heat.

To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.

To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower. The atheist power shall quail, and confess his fears. I. Taylor. Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Longfel…

may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become laws without the approval of the executive. Qualified property (Law), that which dep…

To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic. Our people quarrel with obedience. Shak. But some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed. Shak.

d as terminating a quarter of the year; hence, one on which any payment, especially rent, becomes due. In matters influenced by United States statutes, quarter days are the first days of January, April, July, and October. In New York and many other places, as between landlord and tenant, they are the first days of May,…

To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool. [R.] Dost thou think in time She will not quench! Shak.

To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive. [Obs.] Chaucer.