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<A NAME="publicutilities">
<B>public utilities,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> shares of stock or other securities issued by public-utility companies. </DL>
<A NAME="publicutility">
<B>public utility,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a company formed or chartered to render essential services to the public, such as a company furnishing gas, electricity, or water, or an airline, a railroad, or a bus line; utility. A public utility often has a monopoly on its particular service within an area or areas, and is subject to special governmental control or regulation. </DL>
<A NAME="publicworks">
<B>public works,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> highways, dams, docks, canals, office buildings, and parks or other things built by the government at public expense for public use. </DL>
<A NAME="publish">
<B>publish, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to prepare and offer (a book, paper, map, a piece of music, or the like) for sale or distribution. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] is general editor for the volumes being published (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to bring out the books or works of. <BR> <I>Ex. Some American writers are published abroad before they achieve publication in this country.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to make publicly or generally known. <BR> <I>Ex. Don't publish the faults of your friends. Publish it that she is dead (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) divulge, reveal, disclose. <DD><B> 4. </B>to announce formally or officially. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to come into circulation; be published. <BR> <I>Ex. The newspapers here publish every single day.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to prepare a work for publication and distribution. <BR> <I>Ex. We have been publishing for many authors for many years.</I> adj. <B>publishable.</B> noun <B>publishment.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="publisher">
<B>publisher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or company whose business is to produce and sell books, newspapers, or magazines. <BR> <I>Ex. Look at the bottom of the title page of this book for the publisher's name.</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) pub. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who makes something public. </DL>
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<A NAME="publishing">
<B>publishing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the business or activities of a publisher. <BR> <I>Ex. textbook publishing.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publishinghouse">
<B>publishing house,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a company which publishes books or magazines; publisher. <BR> <I>Ex. Gide had long felt the need for ... a publishing house which would afford a hearing to young authors (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pubofemoral">
<B>pubofemoral, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, attached to, or common to the pubis and the femur. <BR> <I>Ex. pubofemoral fascia.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="puc">
<B>PUC</B> (no periods) or <B>P.U.C.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Public Utilities Commission, a commission set up at various government levels to regulate public utilities. </DL>
<A NAME="puccoon">
<B>puccoon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various plants yielding a red dye, especially the bloodroot, and certain American plants of the borage family. <DD><B> 2. </B>the pigment or dye obtained from any one of these plants. </DL>
<B>pucker, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to draw into wrinkles or irregular folds. <BR> <I>Ex. to pucker one's brow, pucker cloth in sewing. The baby's lips puckered just before he began to cry. Trabert till that moment had looked tense and puckered up (London Times).</I> (SYN) crease, purse. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an irregular fold; wrinkle. <BR> <I>Ex. This coat doesn't fit; there are puckers in the shoulders.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) a dazed or perturbed condition. <BR> <I>Ex. She appeared to have stopped breathing; her flesh barely rippled. He recognized the symptoms; she was in a real pucker (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S. Slang.) the lips or mouth. <BR> <I>Ex. What's the good o' havin' music in your mind if you can't get it past your pucker? (Louis Armstrong).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="puckery">
<B>puckery, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to pucker; puckered; puckering. </DL>
<A NAME="puckish">
<B>puckish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> mischievous; impish. <BR> <I>Ex. a puckish twinkle of the eyes. He got a puckish delight out of teasing his sister.</I> adv. <B>puckishly.</B> noun <B>puckishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pucras">
<B>pucras, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various pheasants of the Himalaya region and parts of India and China, distinguished by the long crests and ear tufts of the males. Also, <B>pukras.</B> </DL>
<B>pudder, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to go poking about; potter; dabble (in). <DD><B> 2. </B>to poke or stir about, as with the hand or a stick. </DL>
<A NAME="pudding">
<B>pudding, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a soft cooked food, usually sweet and often made with a milk base. <BR> <I>Ex. Rice pudding is nourishing.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a dessert resembling a cake, flavored and sweetened and usually steamed or baked. <BR> <I>Ex. plum pudding.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>anything soft like a pudding. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Scottish.) a kind of sausage. </DL>
<A NAME="puddinghead">
<B>puddinghead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a stupid person. </DL>
<B>pudding stone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rock composed of pebbles held together by cementlike stone; conglomerate. </DL>
<A NAME="puddingy">
<B>puddingy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) having the appearance, shape, or consistency of a pudding. </DL>
<A NAME="puddle">
<B>puddle, </B>noun, verb, <B>-dled,</B> <B>-dling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a small pool of water, especially dirty water. <BR> <I>Ex. a puddle of rain water.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. a puddle of ink.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>wet clay and sand stirred into a paste, used as a watertight lining for embankments, canals, etc. <DD><B> 4. </B>the molten metal that flows before the flame of a welding torch and forms the weld when cooled. <BR> <I>Ex. Move the flame across the surface of the sheet metal, carrying the puddle along the surface (Purvis and Toboldt).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to dabble or wade in puddles. <BR> <I>Ex. The children always puddle about in the garden after a rain.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to busy oneself in a disorderly way. <BR> <I>Ex. He puddled about at first one thing and another, never getting anything done.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to make wet or muddy. <BR> <I>Ex. Tablecloths puddled with melted ice (Thackeray).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to mix up (wet clay and sand) into a thick paste. <DD><B> 3. </B>to use a mixture of wet clay and sand to stop water from running through. <BR> <I>Ex. Puddle up that hole in the wall.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to stir (molten pig iron) along with an oxidizing agent to make wrought iron. <DD><B> 5. </B>to prepare (soil) for planting while wet, as in a rice paddy. <DD><B> 6. </B>to damage the texture of (soil, especially a heavy soil) by plowing, harrowing, or otherwise working before excess water has drained. </DL>
<A NAME="puddlejump">
<B>puddle-jump, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) to fly a light airplane for short trips. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] has done some syndicated drawing and free-lance writing, puddle-jumped in his private plane (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="puddlejumper">
<B>puddle-jumper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) a lightweight airplane or helicopter. <BR> <I>Ex. We consider all types ... big and little transports or puddle-jumpers (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Slang.) an old or dilapidated automobile. </DL>
<A NAME="puddler">
<B>puddler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that puddles. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person employed in the process of converting cast iron into wrought iron. </DL>
<A NAME="puddling">
<B>puddling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of converting pig iron into wrought iron by stirring the molten metal along with an oxidizing agent. <DD><B> 2. </B>the process of converting clay and sand into puddle. <DD><B> 3. </B>the process of lining or filling something with puddle. <DD><B> 4. </B>the clay and sand used in puddling; puddle. </DL>
<A NAME="puddlingfurnace">
<B>puddling furnace,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a furnace for converting pig iron into wrought iron. </DL>
<A NAME="puddly">
<B>puddly, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>full of puddles. <DD><B> 2. </B>like a puddle. </DL>
<A NAME="puddock">
<B>puddock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) a paddock; toad. </DL>
<A NAME="pudency">
<B>pudency, </B>noun. <B>=modesty.</B></DL>
<A NAME="pudendal">
<B>pudendal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the pudenda. </DL>
<A NAME="pudendum">
<B>pudendum, </B>noun, pl. <B>-da.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the external genitals, especially of the female. </DL>
<A NAME="pudge">
<B>pudge, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pudgy person. </DL>
<A NAME="pudgy">
<B>pudgy, </B>adjective, <B>pudgier,</B> <B>pudgiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> short and fat or thick. <BR> <I>Ex. a child's pudgy hand, a pudgy little man.</I> (SYN) dumpy. Also, <B>podgy.</B> adv. <B>pudgily.</B> noun <B>pudginess.</B> </DL>
<B>pudu, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the smallest deer known, about a foot high and weighing about 20 pounds; rabbit deer. Pudus live in the forests of western South America and have short, spikelike antlers and rough, brown or gray fur. </DL>
