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Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul. "Thick puddly water." Carew.

A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. Carew.

One who marks with points. specifically, one who writes Hebrew with points; -- applied to a Masorite. E. Robinson.

n a person because of a crime or offense. I never gave them condign punishment. Shak. The rewards and punishments of another life. Locke.

To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus. A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others. Dr. H. More. He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders. Addison.

One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes. Hebrew, the general puzzler of old heads. Brome.

Of or pertaining to fireworks, or the art of forming them. Pyrotechnical sponge. See under Sponge.

The art of making fireworks; the manufacture and use of fireworks; pyrotechny.

One skilled in pyrotechny; one who manufactures fireworks. Steevens.

r bill (Naut.), a list specifying the different stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each. -- Quarter block (Naut.), a block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side of the slings, through which the clew lines and sheets are reeved. R. H. Dana, J…

The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.

To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.

o take by a promiscuous sweep. [Obs.] Causes and effects which I thus raff up together. Carew.

A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised wheat where none grew before." Johnson's Dict.

The erd shrew. [Scot.]

inely pointed blade, used only for thrusting. Rapier fish (Zoöl.), the swordfish. [Obs.] Grew.

(Bot.), a Brazilian palm tree (Iriartea exorhiza) which has strong aërial roots like a screw pine. The roots have a hard, rough surface, and are used by the natives for graters and rasps, whence the common name.

stalis. See Eristalis. -- Rat-tailed serpent (Zoöl.), the fer-de-lance. -- Rat-tailed shrew (Zoöl.), the musk shrew.

to the contrary of what was said or suggested; instead. Was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Mark v. 26.