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

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-vessel or fruit is frequently covered with a hard woody shell. See BOTANY.