Chapter Pulverulence to Punctum of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Pumpkin
(Pump"kin) n. [For older pompion, pompon, OF. pompon, L. pepo, peponis, Gr. properly, cooked by the sun, ripe, mellow; — so called because not eaten till ripe. Cf. Cook, n.] (Bot.) A well- known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, — used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

Pumpkin seed. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) (Zoöl.) The common pondfish.

Pumy
(Pu"my) a. [Cf. Prov. E. pummer big, large, and E. pomey pommel.] Large and rounded. [Obs.]

A gentle stream, whose murmuring wave did play
Amongst the pumy stones.

Spenser.

Pun
(Pun) v. t. [See Pound to beat.] To pound. [Obs.]

He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.

Shak.

Pun
(Pun), n. [Cf. Pun to pound, Pound to beat.] A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation. Addison.

A better put on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay.

Walpole.

Pun
(Pun), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Punned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Punning.] To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble. Dryden.

Pun
(Pun), v. t. To persuade or affect by a pun. Addison.

Punch
(Punch) n. [Hind. panch five, Skr. pacan. So called because composed of five ingredients, viz., sugar, arrack, spice, water, and lemon juice. See Five.] A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; — specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.

Milk punch, a sort of punch made with spirit, milk, sugar, spice, etc. — Punch bowl, a large bowl in which punch is made, or from which it is served. — Roman punch, a punch frozen and served as an ice.

Punch
(Punch), n. [Abbrev, fr. punchinello.] The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.

Punch and Judy, a puppet show in which a comical little hunchbacked Punch, with a large nose, engages in altercation with his wife Judy.

Punch
(Punch) n. [Prov. E. Cf. Punchy.]

1. A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.

I . . . did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short.

Pepys.

2. One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.

Punch
(Punch), v. t. [OE. punchen, perhaps the same word as E. punish: or cf. E. bunch.] To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.

Punch
(Punch), n. A thrust or blow. [Colloq.]

Punch
(Punch), n. [Abbrev. fr. puncheon.]