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To reduce to pulp.

A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. [Obs.] Nares.

the quality or state of being pulpy.

e, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching. I stand like a clerk in my pulpit. Chaucer.

Placed in a pulpit. [R.] Sit . . . at the feet of a pulpited divine. Milton.

One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt. Howell. We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous on such a pulpiteer. Prof. Wilson.

A preacher. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the pulpit; suited to the pulpit. [R.] -- Pul*pit"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.] Chesterfield.

Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers.

The teaching of the pulpit; preaching. [R. & Obs.] " Mere pulpitry." Milton.

Containing pulp; pulpy. " Pulpous fruit." J. Philips. -- Pulp"ous*ness, n.

Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.

The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum.

An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear. Grew.

diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches. Gwilt.

A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.