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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pluck \Pluck\, v. i.
To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at;
as, to pluck at one's gown.
Pluck \Pluck\, n.
1. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
2. [Prob. so called as being plucked out after the animal is
killed; or cf. Gael. & Ir. pluc a lump, a knot, a bunch.]
The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
3. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck.
--Thackeray.
4. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at
college. See {Pluck}, v. t., 4.
5. (Zo["o]l.) The lyrie. [Prov. Eng.]
Pluck \Pluck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plucked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plucking}.] [AS. pluccian; akin to LG. & D. plukken, G.
pfl["u]cken, Icel. plokka, plukka, Dan. plukke, Sw. plocka.
?27.]
1. To pull; to draw.
Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution.
--Je?. Taylor.
2. 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.
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
--Milton.
E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And
plucked his gown to share the good man's smile.
--Goldsmith.
3. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
They which pass by the way do pluck her. --Ps.
lxxx.?2.
4. (Eng. Universities) To reject at an examination for
degrees. --C. Bront['e].
{To pluck away}, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to
tear away.
{To pluck down}, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a
lower state.
{to pluck off}, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the
skin.
{to pluck up}.
(a) To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to
eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up
a plant; to pluck up a nation. --Jer. xii. 17.
(b) To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage.
资料来源 : WordNet®
pluck
n 1: the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of
possible loss or injury [syn: {gutsiness}, {pluckiness}]
[ant: {gutlessness}]
2: the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
v 1: pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"
[syn: {tweak}, {pull off}, {pick off}]
2: sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and
especially underhanded activity [syn: {hustle}, {roll}]
3: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: {overcharge}, {soak},
{surcharge}, {gazump}, {fleece}, {plume}, {rob}, {hook}]
[ant: {undercharge}]
4: pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked
the strings of his mandolin" [syn: {plunk}, {pick}]
5: strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn:
{pull}, {tear}, {deplume}, {deplumate}, {displume}]
6: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn:
{pick}, {cull}]