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Definition of Plucks

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Lyrie Ly"rie (l[imac]"r[i^]), n. [Icel. hl[=y]ri a sort of fish.] (Zo["o]l.) A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck, pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.
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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.]

Meaning of Plucks from wikipedia

- Look up pluck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pluck or plucking may refer to: Plucking (hair removal), the removal of hair, fur, or feathers Feather-plucking...
- Plucker is an open-source offline e-reader for PDAs, and the ****ociated Plucker file format. The Plucker software suite includes a supporting desktop application...
- behavioural disorder commonly seen in captive birds that chew, bite or pluck their own feathers with their beak, resulting in damage to the feathers...
- point directly to the intended article. Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist 29643 Plücker, main-belt asteroid Plücker Line Plücker matrix...
- River Stour downstream from Plucks Gutter) flow onward to the sea via Sandwich to Pegwell Bay near Ramsgate, leaving Plucks Gutter six miles in a straight...
- Pluck and Luck: Complete Stories of Adventure was an American dime novel first published by Frank Tousey and was the longest-running dime novel. It numbered...
- Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are pla**** by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing...
- takes its catch to a plucking post to dislocate the bird's neck using the notch on its bill that all falcons have. It then plucks the feathers before eating...
- In geometry, Plücker coordinates, introduced by Julius Plücker in the 19th century, are a way to ****ign six homogeneous coordinates to each line in projective...
- Plücker matrix is a special skew-symmetric 4 × 4 matrix, which characterizes a straight line in projective space. The matrix is defined by 6 Plücker coordinates...