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pus, n. matter, purulence. a.s.sociated Words: purulent, maturate, maturation, suppurate, suppuration, indigested, fester.
push, v. shove, impel.
push, n. shove.
push, n. (Colloq.) energy, spiritedness, enterprise, aggressiveness; (Slang) crowd, gang, posse.
pus.h.i.+ng, a. enterprising, energetic, intrusive, forward, officious, obtrusive, aggressive.
pusillanimous, a. See cowardly.
p.u.s.s.y, a. (Colloq.) pursy, fleshy.
put back. replace, restore, reinstate; r.e.t.a.r.d, impede, delay, hinder.
put between. interpose.
put down. deposit; crush, quell, suppress, repress, vanquish overthrow; reduce, lower.
put in. insert, inject, interpolate, interpose, thrust in, interject, interlard.
put-off, n. s.h.i.+ft, evasion, subterfuge, ruse, parry.
put off. discard, doff; delay, defer, postpone, procrastinate.
put out. eject, oust, remove, evict, dispossess, dislodge; extend, protrude; extinguish; issue, publish; dislocate; displease, offend, anger.
putter, v. potter, pother, trifle, fribble, dally, dawdle.
putting back. hindering, delay, r.e.t.a.r.dation; replacement, restoration, reinstatement.
putting in. insertion, injection, interpolation.
putting in practice. application.
putting off. delay, deferment, postponement, procrastination.
putting on. investing, invest.i.ture; a.s.sumption, arrogation; instigation, incitement.
putting out. ejection, eviction, dispossession, expulsion, ousting; extinguishment, extinction; dislocation.
put to flight. rout.
put-up, a. (Colloq.) arranged, predetermined.
puzzle, v. mystify, pose, nonplus, perplex, bewilder, confuse.
puzzle, n. enigma, conundrum, intricacy, maze, crux, riddle, rebus, poser; confusion, quandary, perplexity, nonplus, bewilderment.
puzzling, a. enigmatical, perplexing, inexplicable, inscrutable, intricate, bewildering.
pyx, n. ciborium; ostensorium, monstrance; binnacle.
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quack, n. charlatan, empiric, pretender, mountebank.
quack, a. empirical, charlatanic, quackish.
quackery, n. empiricism, charlatanism, charlatanry, mountebankery.
quackish, a. empirical, charlatanic.
quack medicine. nostrum.
quaggy, a. boggy, queachy, swampy, marshy, fenny.
quagmire, n. slough, swamp, marsh, mora.s.s, bog, fen.
quail, n. bobwhite.
quail, v. tremble, cower, flinch, quake, blench, falter.
quaint, a. fanciful, whimsical, odd, curious, grotesque, old-fas.h.i.+oned.
quake, v. quiver, tremble, shake, shudder, vibrate.
quake, n. agitation, trembling, shaking, vibration, quivering.
Quaker, n. Friend.
qualification, n. condition, restriction, modification, limitation; endowment, ability, eligibility, capability, fitness, competency; allowance, diminution, adaptation, mitigation, preparation.
qualified, a. modified, limited; competent, eligible, fitted, capable.
qualify, v. modify, limit, restrict, condition; fit, prepare, equip; modulate, vary, temper; diminish, moderate, mitigate, a.s.suage, alleviate.
quality, n. nature, character, sort, strain, condition; characteristic, peculiarity, trait, property, attribute, attribution, accident; high rank, n.o.bility, gentry, aristocracy.
qualm, n. nausea; compunction, regret, uneasiness.
qualmish, a. nauseated.
