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_To_ PUNGE, _v. a._
V. ~Punye~.
PUNGER, _s._ A species of crab.
_Sibbald._
PUNYE, _s._ A small body of men.
_Barbour._
Fr. _poignee de gens_, a handful of people.
_To_ PUNYE, PUNGE, _v. a._
1. To pierce.
_Wallace._
2. To sting.
_Fordun._
3. To sting; applied to the mind.
_Wallace._
O. Fr. _poign-er_, Lat. _pungere_.
PUNYOUN, _s._ Side, party.
V. ~Opinion~.
_Wallace._
PUNSIS, PUNCIS, _s. pl._ Pulses.
Corr. from _pulse_.
_Montgomerie._
PURCHES, _s._
1. An amour.
_Douglas._
O. Fr. _porchaz_, intrigue.
2. s.p.a.ce for exertion, S.
3. _To live on_ one's _purchase_, to live by one's wits, S.
PURE, PUIR, _adj._ Poor, S.
_Douglas._
O. Fr. _poure_, id.
~Puirlie~, _adv._ Humbly.
_K. Hart._
~Pure man~, _s._ A beggar, S.
_K. Quair._
To ~Pure~, ~Puir~, _v. a._ To impoverish.
_Wallace._
PURED, _part. adj._ Furred.
_Sir Gawan._
PURELLIS, _s. pl._
V. ~Pouerall~.
PURFLED, PURFILLIT, _part. adj._ Short-winded, S.
PURIE, _s._ A small meagre person, Orkney.
PURLE, _s._ A pearl.
_Watson._
