Definition of "pluck up" []

• To remove something by plucking from e.g. the ground. (verb)
• To become more cheerful (verb)
• To muster; summon positive emotion (especially courage) (verb)
• To sign; purchase a player. (verb)

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• "Larry was sick at heart, sick in his pocket, and was only seen to pluck up spirit enough to go to the warrant-clerk, and humbly insist upon a warrant on the treasurer for a week's pay to meet a week's board."
• "Saith God, "I will pluck up my evil neighbours, that will not leave my inheritance.""
• "He knows without it how I do love and revere him, and I cannot pluck up courage to ask for some little book which he has used, that there may be a sort of odour of sanctity about it, just as Bishop Mackenzie's Thomas a Kempis, with him on the Zambesi, is on my table now. '"