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Definition of pun

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Pun (n.) 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.

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Mulct :: Mulct (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline..

Pungent :: Pungent (v. t.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A pun; a low conceit.

Amende :: Amende (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation.

Overlook :: Overlook (v. t.) To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse..

Reprobate :: Reprobate (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved..

Paragrammatist :: Paragrammatist (n.) A punster.

Poriform :: Poriform (a.) Resembling a pore, or small puncture..

Socinianism :: Socinianism (n.) The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitat

Sipunculoid :: Sipunculoid (n.) One of the Sipunculoidea.

Punch :: Punch (n.) A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick..

Bipunctate :: Bipunctate (a.) Having two punctures, or spots..

Cob :: Cob (v. t.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like..

Contrapuntist :: Contrapuntist (n.) One skilled in counterpoint.

Puny :: Puny (n.) A youth; a novice.

Punned :: Punned (imp. & p. p.) of Pu.

Puny :: Puny (superl.) Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.

Horse-radish :: Horse-radish (n.) A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine..

As :: As (n.) A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce..

Dispunge :: Dispunge (v. t.) To expunge; to erase.