vt the lyrie.
2. pluck ·noun the act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
3. pluck ·vt to reject at an examination for degrees.
4. pluck ·noun spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
5. pluck ·vt to strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
6. pluck ·vt to pull; to draw.
7. pluck ·noun the heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
8. pluck ·noun the act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. ·see pluck, ·vt, 4.
9. pluck ·vi to make a motion of pulling or twitching;
usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
10. pluck ·vt 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.