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   Lyrie , n. [Icel. hlȳri a sort of fish.] (Zool.) 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 , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plucked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Plucking.] [AS. pluccian; akin to LG. & D. plukken, G. pflücken, Icel. plokka, plukka, Dan. plukke, Sw. plocka. 27.]
   To pull; to draw.
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   Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution.
   Je. Taylor.
   
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   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.
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   I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
   Milton.
   
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   E'en children followed, with endearing wile,
   And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile.
   Goldsmith.
   
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   To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
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   They which pass by the way do pluck her.
   Ps. lxxx.2.
   
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   (Eng. Universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
   C. Bronté.
   
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   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.
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   Pluck, v. i. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
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   Pluck, n.
   The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
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   [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.
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   Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
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   Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck.
   Thackeray.
   
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   The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
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   (Zool.) The lyrie. [Prov. Eng.]
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