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PLUCK , to pull or pick off something, as flowers
hair , feathers, cf. Fr. eplucher, pick. These romanic words are to be referred to Lat. pilus, hair , which has also given " peruke " or " periwig " and " plush." Difficulties of phonology, history and chronology, however, seem to show that this close similarity is only a coincidence. " Pluck," in the sense of courage, was originally a slang
Journal , Sept. 4, 1827) speaks of the " want of that article blackguardly called pluck." In butcher's parlance the " pluck " of an animal is the heart, liver and lungs, probably so called from their being " plucked " or pulled out of the carcase immediately after slaughtering. The heart being the typical seat of courage, the transference is obvious. In university colloquial or slang
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congregation
silk
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