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marionette; a wooden actor in a play. At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. Pope.

Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet.

A master of a puppet show.

Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers.

A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

tending to seat, and that tending to unseat the valve, are nearly in equilibrium; esp., a puppet valve which is made to operate easily by the admission of steam to both sides. See Puppet valve. -- Hydrostatic balance. See under Hydrostatic. -- To lay in balance, to put up as a pledge or security. [Obs.] Chaucer. --…

A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.

Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.

A puppet show; also, a puppet. [Obs.] Shak.

Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.

A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.

y be put in any attitude; -- used for showing the disposition of drapery, etc. (b) A mere puppet; one who serves the will of others without independent volition. -- Lay race, that part of a lay on which the shuttle travels in weaving; -- called also shuttle race.

t pump. -- Lifting rod, a vertical rod lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; -- used in the engines of river steamboats. -- Lifting sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

An idol; a puppet; a doll. [Obs.] Selden. Shak.

A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.

A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed. [Obs.] Wyclif. Beau. & Fl.

A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

A puppet show or puppet. [Obs.] What motion's this the model of Nineveh Beau. & Fl.

A puppet. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A word variously explained as "a little puppet," "a little doll," or "a young butterfly." Cf. Popet. [Obs.] So gay a popelote, so sweet a wench. Chaucer.