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Webster 1913 Edition


Pulp

Pulp

,
Noun.
[L.
pulpa
flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. F.
pulpe
.]
A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.
Specifically:
(a)
(Anat.)
A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.
(b)
(Bot.)
The soft, succulent part of fruit;
as, the
pulp
of a grape
.
(c)
The exterior part of a coffee berry.
B. Edwards.
(d)
The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.

Pulp

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pulped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pulping
.]
1.
To reduce to pulp.
2.
To deprive of the pulp, or integument.
The other mode is to
pulp
the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man will
pulp
a bushel in a minute.
B. Edwards.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pulp

PULP

,
Noun.
[L.pulpa. This is probably allied to L. puls, pulmentum; Gr. from softness.]
1.
A soft mass; in general.
2.
The soft substance within a bone; marrow.
3.
The soft,succulent part of fruit; as the pulp of an orange.
4.
The aril or exterior covering of a coffee-berry.

PULP

,
Verb.
T.
To deprive of the pulp or integument, as the coffee-berry.
The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine, a man will pulp a bushel in a minute.