pug

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Clay ground and kneaded with water into a plastic consistency for forming bricks or pottery.
• noun A machine for grinding and mixing clay.
• transitive verb To work or knead (clay) with water.
• transitive verb To fill in with clay or mortar.
• transitive verb To make soundproof by covering or packing with clay, mortar, sawdust, or felt.
• noun A footprint, track, or trail, especially of an animal; a pugmark.
• noun A dog of a small sturdy breed developed in China, having a short muzzle, wrinkled face, short smooth coat, and tightly curled tail.
• noun A pug nose.
• noun A fighter, especially a boxer.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A pug-nose; the form or turn of a pug-nose: as, a decided pug.
• noun An elf; fairy; goblin; sprite: same as puck, 1.
• noun A monkey.
• noun A fox.
• noun A dwarf variety of dog; a pug-dog.
• noun A term of familiarity or endearment, like duck, etc.
• noun A three-year-old salmon.
• noun One of certain small geometrid moths: an English collectors' name. The netted pug is Eupithecia venosata; the foxglovepug is E. pulchellata.
• noun A short cloak worn by ladies about the middle of the eighteenth century.
• noun Clay ground and worked or kneaded with water, and sometimes with other substances, into consistency for molding, as into bricks, etc.
• noun A pug-mill.
• To thrust; strike. [Prov. Eng.]
• In building: To tamp with clay, or stop with puddle; clay.
• To line (spaces between floor-joists) or cover (partition-walls) with coarse mortar, felt, sawdust, or any other material to impede the passage of sound; deaden; deafen.
• In pottery-and brick-manuf., to grind, as clay, with water in order to render it plastic.
• noun The print of a foot; a footmark. See puggi.
• noun Chaff; refuse of grain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
• noun A pug mill.
• noun 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.
• transitive verb To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
• transitive verb 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.
• noun India A footprint; a track; as of a boar.
• noun obsolete An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as puck.
• noun colloq. A name for a monkey.
• noun Prov. Eng. A name for a fox.
• noun obsolete An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
• noun obsolete Chaff; the refuse of grain.
• noun obsolete A prostitute.
• noun (Zoöl.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
• noun (Zoöl.) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The footprint of an animal. (Also pugmark) (From the Hindi for 'foot', related to Sanskrit 'padh' and Greek 'ped')
• noun Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil)
• noun obsolete, slang A nickname for a pugilist or boxer.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle