1. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
2. Etym: [Prob. so called as being plucked out after the animal is killed; or cf. Gael. & Ir. pluc a lump, a knot, a bunch.]
Defn: The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
3. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck. Thackeray.
4. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
5. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The lyrie. [Prov. Eng.]
PLUCKED
Plucked, a.
Defn: Having courage and spirit. [R.]
PLUCKER
Pluck"er, n.