Pug

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Pugged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pugging.]
	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.
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.
	1.	An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck.
	2.	A name for a monkey.
	3.	A name for a fox.
	4.	An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
	5.	Chaff; the refuse of grain.
	6.	A prostitute.
	7.	(Zool.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
	8.	(Zool.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
	1.	A footprint; a track; as of a boar.

Noun

1.

pug - small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle Synonyms: pug-dog

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