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nd other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.

The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.

One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

To pound. [Obs.] He would pun thee into shivers with his fist. Shak.

A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

To recover to the fist, as a hawk. [Obs.]

or slanged by a bargee was bound there and then to take off his coat and challenge him to fisticuffs. London Spectator.

instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matt. v. 39. And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead. 1 Sam.…

To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box. Made believe to spar at Paul with great science. Dickens.

hree issuing spouts." Shak. In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope.

An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum.

One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist. [R.] Whitlock.

The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

Niggardly; closefisted; miserly. Ainsworth.

ower, and in England trumpet ash. -- Trumpet fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The bellows fish. (b) The fistularia. -- Trumpet flower. (Bot.) (a) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom. (b) The trumpet honeysuckle. (c) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers. -- Trumpet fly (Zoöl.), a botfly. -- Trumpet…

Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes. Tubular boiler. See under Boiler. -- Tubular breathing (Med.), a variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resemblin…

A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.

To cause to be no longer clinched; to open; as, to unclinch the fist. [Written also unclench.]

A European poisonous umbelliferous plant (Enanthe fistulosa) with large hollow stems and finely divided leaves.