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What's The Definition Of Pug?

\Pug\, n. [Hind. pag foot.] A footprint; a track; as of a boar. [India]
\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\, 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\, 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}.