[ noun ] small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle <noun.animal>
Puck \Puck\, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[=u]ki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. {Poker} a bugbear, {Pug}.] 1. (Medi[ae]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, ``the merry wanderer of the night;'' -- called also {Robin Goodfellow}, {Friar Rush}, {Pug}, etc. --Shak.
He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. --Drayton.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]
Pug \Pug\, n. [Corrupted fr. puck. See {Puck}.] 1. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as {Puck}. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
2. A name for a monkey. [Colloq.] --Addison.
3. A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] --C. Kingsley.
4. An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] --Lyly.
5. pl. Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] --Holland.
6. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
7. (Zo["o]l.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
8. (Zo["o]l.) Any geometrid moth of the genus {Eupithecia}.
Pug \Pug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pugging}.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.] 1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
2. 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.
Pug \Pug\, n. 1. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
2. A pug mill.
{Pug mill}, a kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.
Pug \Pug\, n. [Hind. pag foot.] A footprint; a track; as of a boar. [India] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]