Defn: To persuade or affect by a pun. Addison.
PUNA
Pu"na, n. [Sp., of Peruv. origin.]
Defn: A cold arid table-land, as in the Andes of Peru.
PUNCH Punch, n. Etym: [Hind. panch five, Skr. pacan. So called because composed of five ingredients, viz., sugar, arrack, spice, water, and lemon juice. See Five.]
Defn: A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), 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. Etym: [Abbrev, fr. punchinello.]
Defn: 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. Etym: [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.