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.

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

To reject at an examination for degrees.

To make a motion of pulling or twitching; – usually with
at; as, to pluck at one’s gown.

The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at
college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.

The lyrie.