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A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

A species of dried plum; prunelle.

Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.

Same as Pseudonavicula.

Any starlike meteor or phenomenon. [R.]

A maid; a virgin. [Written also pucel.] [Obs.] Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan. B. Jonson. La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.

A pewfellow. [Obs.]

A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.

One of the points sometimes drilled as guides for cutting away superfluous stone.

Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum.

Quarrelsome. [Obs.] [Written also quarrellous.] Shak.

To die. [Obs.] Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. Spenser.

A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. [Obs.] Wyclif (Mark vi. 27).

A ruff for the neck. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.

A group of Protozoa having both flagella and pseudopodia.

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake. It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Orig., in Germany, the cellar or basement of the city hall, usually rented for use as a restaurant where beer is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are esse…