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To pull; to draw. Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution. Je

Having courage and spirit. [R.]

One who, or that which, plucks. Thou setter up and plucker down of kings. Shak.

A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases.

In a plucky manner.

The quality or state of being plucky.

Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.

Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.

To pull or pluck up. [Obs.]

Astrology. [Obs.] Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy. Shak.

To pluck or pull off. Shenstone.

To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck down justice from your awful bench. Shak.

To seize; clutch; snatch; catch; pluck.

ating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak.

in degree of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. Leigh Hunt.

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. Ezek. xvii. 22.

The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row. And from the crossrow plucks the letter G. Shak.

-legged crow. See Crough. -- As the crow flies, in a direct line. -- To pick a crow, To pluck a crow, to state and adjust a difference or grievance (with any one).

Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. Milton.