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The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

A piece of armor for the breast; often, an addition to, or reënforcement of. the breastplate; -- called also pesane.

The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated " Tracts for the Times;" tractarianism. See Tractarianism.

Of or pertaining to Puseyism.

One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously.

A pustule; a pimple. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bacon.

A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.

One who, or that which, pushes.

d in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. -- Push"ing*ly, adv.

A child's game played with pins. L. Estrange.

Very small; little; petty. [Obs.] Bacon.

The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness. The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. Shak. It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility. South.

s of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince.

With pusillanimity.

Purslane. [Colloq. U. S]

A hare; -- so called by sportsmen. Puss in the corner, a game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one. -- Puss moth (Zoöl.), any one of sever…

A catkin of the pussy willow.

Producing pustules. -- n.

1. Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.

To form into pustules, or blisters.