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Bible Dictionaries
Pluck
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; - usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
(2):
(v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
(3):
(n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
(4):
(n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
(5):
(n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
(6):
(v. t.) The lyrie.
(7):
(v. t.) To pull; to draw.
(8):
(v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.
(9):
(n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
(10):
(v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pluck'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pluck.html. 1828.
