a pimple, or small eruption on the skin full of pus; such as the eruptions of the small-pox.

PUTAMINEÆ, (from putamen, "a shell,") the name of the 25th order of Linnæus's fragments of a natural method; consisting of a few genera of plants allied in habit, whose fleshy seed-vessels or fruit is frequently covered with a hard woody shell. See Botany, p. 1309.