Definition of pluck

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Pluck (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown..

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Nerve :: Nerve (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution..
Rape :: Rape (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster..
Sand :: Sand (n.) Courage; pluck; grit.
Lyrie :: Lyrie (n.) A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead..
Plucker :: Plucker (n.) One who, or that which, plucks..
Vellicative :: Vellicative (a.) Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication..
Pluck :: Pluck (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl..
Pluck :: Pluck (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown..
Plucky :: Plucky (superl.) Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race..
Haggis :: Haggis (n.) A Scotch pudding made of the heart, liver, lights, etc., of a sheep or lamb, minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, etc., highly seasoned, and boiled in the stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck..
Plucked :: Plucked (imp. & p. p.) of Pluc.
Gamely :: Gamely (adv.) In a plucky manner; spiritedly.
Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..
Singe :: Singe (v. t.) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
Evulsion :: Evulsion (n.) The act of plucking out; a rooting out.
Decerp :: Decerp (v. t.) To pluck off; to crop; to gather.
Plucking :: Plucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pluc.
Plight :: Plight () imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
Rash :: Rash (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
Pluckiness :: Pluckiness (n.) The quality or state of being plucky.
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