Pounce (v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
Pounced (a.) Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle.
Pounced (a.) Ornamented with perforations or dots.
Pouncet box () A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes.
Pouncing (n.) The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
Pouncing (n.) Decorative perforation of cloth.
Pounded (imp. & p. p.) of Pound
Pounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pound
Pound (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
Pound (v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.
Pound (v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
Pound (n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.
Pound (n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.
Pound (n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
Pound (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
Pounds (pl. ) of Pound
Pound (pl. ) of Pound
Pounds (pl. ) of Pound
Pound (n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
Pound (n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.
Poundage (n.) A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
Poundage (n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.
Poundage (n.) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound.
Poundage (v. t.) To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
Poundage (n.) Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
Poundage (n.) A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
Poundal (n.) A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.
Pound-breach (n.) The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.
Poundcake (n.) A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
Pounder (n.) One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
Pounder (n.) An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.
Pounder (n.) A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.
Pounding (n.) A pounded or pulverized substance.
Pound/keeper (n.) The keeper of a pound.
Poundrate (n.) A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
Poup (v. i.) See Powp.
Poupart's ligament () A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.
Poupeton (n.) A puppet, or little baby.
Pour (a.) Poor.
Pour (v. i.) To pore.
Poured (imp. & p. p.) of Pour
Pouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pour
Pour (v. t.) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.
Pour (v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
Pour (v. t.) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
Pour (v. i.) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.
Pour (n.) A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.
Poureliche (adv.) Poorly.
Pourer (n.) One who pours.
Pourlieu (n.) See Purlieu.
Pourparler (n.) A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
Pourparties (pl. ) of Pourparty
Pourparty (n.) A division; a divided share.
Pourpoint (n.) A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
Pourpresture (n.) See Purpresture.
Poursuivant (n.) See Pursuivant.
Pourtray (v. t.) See Portray.
Pourveyance (n.) See Purveyance.
Pousse (n.) Pulse; pease.
Poussette (n.) A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
Poussette (v. i.) To perform a certain movement in a dance.
Pout (n.) The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.
Pout (v. i.) To shoot pouts.
Pouted (imp. & p. p.) of Pout
Pouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pout
Pout (v. i.) To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
Pout (v. i.) To protrude.
Pout (n.) A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.
Pout (n.) The European whiting pout or bib.
Pouter (n.) One who, or that which, pouts.
Pouter (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.
Pouting (n.) Childish sullenness.
Poutingly (adv.) In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.
Povert (n.) Poverty.
Poverty (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
Poverty (n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Powan (n.) Alt. of Powen
Powen (n.) A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.
Powder (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
Powder (n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
Powdered (imp. & p. p.) of Powder
Powdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Powder
Powder (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
Powder (v. t.) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
Powder (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
Powder (v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
Powder (v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
Powdered (a.) Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
Powdered (a.) Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.
Powdered (a.) Same as Seme.
Powderflask (n.) A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
Powderhorn (n.) A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
Powdering () a. & n. from Powder, v. t.
Powdermill (n.) A mill in which gunpowder is made.
Powder-posted (a.) Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
Powdery (a.) Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
Powdery (a.) Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
Powdery (a.) Resembling powder; consisting of powder.