PLUCK, v.t. 1. To pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off, out or from, with a twitch. Thus we say, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes or other fruit. They pluck the fatherless from the breast. Job.24.2. To strip by plucking; as, to pluck a fowl. They that pass by do pluck her. Ps.80.The sense of this verb is modified by particles.To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. He shall pluck away his crop with his feathers. Lev.1.To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; or to reduce to a lower state. To pluck off, is to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin. Mic.3. To pluck on, to pull or draw on. pluck up, 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.12. To pluck out, to draw out suddenly or to tear out; as, to pluck out the eyes; to pluck out the hand from the bosom. Ps.74. To pluck up, to resume courage; properly, to pluck up the heart. [Not elegant.] PLUCK, n. The heart, liver and lights of an animal. |
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