Defn: Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness. " A national pugnacity of character." Motley.
PUG NOSE
Pug" nose`.
Defn: A short, thick nose; a snubnose.
— Pug"-nosed`, a. Pug-nose eel (Zoöl.), a deep-water marine eel
(Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of
the halibut.
PUH
Puh, interj.
Defn: The same as Pugh.
PUISNE
Puis"ne (pu"ny), a. Etym: [See Puny.]
1. Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. [Obs.] " A puisne date to eternity." Sir M. Hale.
2. Puny; petty; unskilled. [Obs.]
3. (Law)
Defn: Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. Blackstone.