Definition of pun

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Pun (v. i.) To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble..

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Poignant :: Poignant (a.) Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.
Quickness :: Quickness (n.) Sharpness; pungency of taste.
Vengeance :: Vengeance (n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge..
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored..
Proportionate :: Proportionate (v.) To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes..
Punctiform :: Punctiform (a.) Having the form of a point.
Spur :: Spunky (superl.) Full of spunk; quick; spirited.
Millionary :: Millionary (a.) Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits..
Caper :: Caper (n.) The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment..
Castigation :: Castigation (n.) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
Expunged :: Expunged (imp. & p. p.) of Expung.
Punt :: Punt (n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc..
Diallyl :: Diallyl (n.) A volatile, pungent, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H10, consisting of two allyl radicals, and belonging to the acetylene series..
Punner :: Punner (n.) A punster.
Knout :: Knout (v. t.) To punish with the knout.
Obnoxious :: Obnoxious (a.) Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
Prick :: Prick (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment..
Crotonylene :: Crotonylene (n.) A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid..
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