Pluck

1.

The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

2.

The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

3.

Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

4.

The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college.

1.

(TRANSITIVE) To reject at an examination for degrees.

2.

(TRANSITIVE) 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.

3.

(TRANSITIVE) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

4.

(INTRANSITIVE) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

1.

To pull, to draw

2.

The lyrie