Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Puss \Puss\ (p[.u]s), n. [Cf. D. poes, Ir. & Gael. pus.]
   1. A cat; -- a fondling appellation.

   2. A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.

   {Puss in the corner}, a game in which all the players but one
      occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open
      air, and exchange places, the one without a corner
      endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving
      some other without one.

   {Puss moth} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of stout
      bombycid moths belonging to {Cerura}, {Harpyia}, and
      allied genera, esp. {Harpyia vinuli}, of Europe. The
      larv[ae] are humpbacked, and have two caudal appendages.