‖ n.; pl. Ampullæ [ L. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) (a) A cruet for the wine and water at Mass. (b) The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ampullaceus, fr. ampulla. ] Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ampullaceous sac (Zool.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Resembling an ampulla. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ampulla + -form. ] Flask-shaped; dilated. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fast-growing tree of India and East Indies (Harpullia cupanioides) yielding a wood used especially for building.
Syn. -- Harpullia cupanioides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any of various tree of the genus Harpullia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An attempt to make somebody believe something that is not true, done as a joke.
Syn. -- leg-pulling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of attempting to make somebody believe something that is not true, done as a joke.
Syn. -- leg-pull. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pulled p. pr. & vb. n. Pulling. ] [ AS. pullian; cf. LG. pulen, and Gael. peall, piol, spiol. ] 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. Lam. iii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Horse Racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Print.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never pull a straight fast ball to leg. R. H. Lyttelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pull and haul, to draw hither and thither. “ Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. ” South. --
To pull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. “ In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up.” Howell. “ To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud.” Roscommon. --
To pull a finch. See under Finch. --
To pull off, take or draw off. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pull apart, to become separated by pulling; as, a rope will pull apart. --
To pull up, to draw the reins; to stop; to halt. --
To pull through, to come successfully to the end of a difficult undertaking, a dangerous sickness, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one. [ 1913 Webster ]

I awakened with a violent pull upon the ring which was fastened at the top of my box. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pluck; loss or violence suffered. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Two pulls at once;
His lady banished, and a limb lopped off. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. [ Slang ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket. R. A. Proctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. poulaille. ] Poultry. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulled through the water to catch fish. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Plucked; pilled; moulting. “ A pulled hen.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. pullinus belonging to young animals. See Pullet. ] Poultry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, pulls. [ 1913 Webster ]

Proud setter up and puller down of kings. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. polete, OF. polete, F. poulette, dim. of poule a hen, fr. L. pullus a young animal, a young fowl. See Foal, and cf. Poult, Poultry, Pool stake. ] A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To raise or lift by means of a pulley. [ R. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Pulleys [ F. poulie, perhaps of Teutonic origin (cf. Poll, v. t.); but cf. OE. poleine, polive, pulley, LL. polanus, and F. poulain, properly, a colt, fr. L. pullus young animal, foal (cf. Pullet, Foal). For the change of sense, cf. F. poutre beam, originally, a filly, and E. easel. ] (Mach.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The pulley, as one of the mechanical powers, consists, in its simplest form, of a grooved wheel, called a sheave, turning within a movable frame or block, by means of a cord or rope attached at one end to a fixed point. The force, acting on the free end of the rope, is thus doubled, but can move the load through only half the space traversed by itself. The rope may also pass over a sheave in another block that is fixed. The end of the rope may be fastened to the movable block, instead of a fixed point, with an additional gain of power, and using either one or two sheaves in the fixed block. Other sheaves may be added, and the power multiplied accordingly. Such an apparatus is called by workmen a block and tackle, or a fall and tackle. See Block. A single fixed pulley gives no increase of power, but serves simply for changing the direction of motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Band pulley, or
Belt pulley, a pulley with a broad face for transmitting power between revolving shafts by means of a belt, or for guiding a belt. --
Cone pulley. See Cone pulley. --
Conical pulley, one of a pair of belt pulleys, each in the shape of a truncated cone, for varying velocities. --
Fast pulley, a pulley firmly attached upon a shaft. --
Loose pulley, a pulley loose on a shaft, to interrupt the transmission of motion in machinery. See Fast and loose pulleys, under Fast. --
Parting pulley, a belt pulley made in semicircular halves, which can be bolted together, to facilitate application to, or removal from, a shaft. --
Pulley block. Same as Block, n. 6. --
Pulley stile (Arch.), the upright of the window frame into which a pulley is fixed and along which the sash slides. --
Split pulley, a parting pulley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Named after Mr. Pullman, who introduced them. ] A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. pullulatus, p. p. of pullulare to sprout, from pullulus a young animal, a sprout, dim. of pullus. See pullet. ] To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pullulation. ] A germinating, or budding. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pulli [ L. ] (Zool.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. repullulare, repullulatum. See Pullulate. ] To bud again. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though tares repullulate, there is wheat still left in the field. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of budding again; the state of having budded again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For spooler. ] [ See Spool. ] One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To exert one's influence secretly. [ Obs. ] Ld. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who underpulls. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who uses secret influence (i.e. pulls wires or strings) for his own ends; an intriguer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Political wire-pullers and convention packers. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of pulling the wires, as of a puppet; hence, secret influence or management, especially in politics; intrigue. [ 1913 Webster ]