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the Jews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study. -- Pil"pul*ist (#), n. --Pil`pul*is"tic (#), a.

lized man in nearly all parts of the world. Indian plantain. (Bot.) See under Indian. -- Mud plantain, a homely North American aquatic plant (Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves. -- Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white.…

To make soft or muddy by trampling Tennyson.

A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).

sp (Zoöl.), a small solitary wasp (Eumenes fraternal) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.

lored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser.

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

A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

d and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.

One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.

on, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile. Woodward.

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.

A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.

gans of taste; possessing savor, or flavor. Camels, to make the water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet. Sir T. Browne.

A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.

The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.

An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.