Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
punish . - noun A bedbug.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Obs. or R. See
punese . - transitive verb obsolete To punish.
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_punice_ or wall-louse; indeed, I am not aware that the modern name of the insect appears in print previous to 1730, when one Southal published _A
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