n. [ Shortened from Public house. ] A retail business where alcoholic beverages are sold by the drink; a bar; a tavern. [ PJC ]
a. [ Perhaps fr. bubble. ] Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat. [ Obs. ] Drant. [ 1913 Webster ]
v.
a. [ From L. puber, pubes, grown up, adult. ] Of or pertaining to puberty. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. pubertas, fr. puber, pubes, adult: cf. F. puberté. ]
a. [ See Pubis. ] (Bot.) Very minutely downy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L., the hair which appears on the body at puberty, from pubes adult. ]
n. [ Cf. F. pubescence. ]
n. Pubescence. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. pubescens, -entis, p. pr. of pubescere to reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. pubescent. ]
That . . . the men (are) pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]