pug

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small sturdy dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
2. n. A pug nose.
3. n. Clay ground and kneaded with water into a plastic consistency for forming bricks or pottery.
4. n. A machine for grinding and mixing clay.
5. v. To work or knead (clay) with water.
6. v. To fill in with clay or mortar.
7. v. To make soundproof by covering or packing with clay, mortar, sawdust, or felt.
8. n. A footprint, track, or trail, especially of an animal; a pugmark.
9. n. Slang A fighter, especially a boxer.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An elf; fairy; goblin; sprite: same as puck, 1.
2. n. A monkey.
3. n. A fox.
4. n. A dwarf variety of dog; a pug-dog.
5. n. A term of familiarity or endearment, like duck, etc.
6. n. A three-year-old salmon.
7. n. One of certain small geometrid moths: an English collectors' name. The netted pug is Eupithecia venosata; the foxglovepug is E. pulchellata.
8. n. A short cloak worn by ladies about the middle of the eighteenth century.
9. n. A pug-nose; the form or turn of a pug-nose: as, a decided pug.
10. To thrust; strike. [Prov. Eng.]
11. In building: To tamp with clay, or stop with puddle; clay.
12. To line (spaces between floor-joists) or cover (partition-walls) with coarse mortar, felt, sawdust, or any other material to impede the passage of sound; deaden; deafen.
13. In pottery-and brick-manuf., to grind, as clay, with water in order to render it plastic.
14. n. Clay ground and worked or kneaded with water, and sometimes with other substances, into consistency for molding, as into bricks, etc.
15. n. A pug-mill.
16. n. Chaff; refuse of grain.
17. n. The print of a foot; a footmark. See puggi.

Wiktionary

1. n. The footprint of an animal. (Also pugmark) (From the Hindi for 'foot', related to Sanskrit 'padh' and Greek 'ped')
2. n. Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil)
3. n. obsolete, slang A nickname for a pugilist or boxer.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
2. v. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.
3. n. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
4. n. A pug mill.
5. n. obsolete An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as puck.
6. n. colloq. A name for a monkey.
7. n. Prov. Eng. A name for a fox.
8. n. obsolete An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
9. n. obsolete Chaff; the refuse of grain.
10. n. obsolete A prostitute.
11. n. (Zoöl.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
12. n. (Zoöl.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
13. n. India A footprint; a track; as of a boar.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle