Powdike (n.) A dike a marsh or fen.
Powdry (a.) See Powdery.
Power (n.) Same as Poor, the fish.
Power (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
Power (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
Power (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
Power (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
Power (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
Power (n.) A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
Power (n.) A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
Power (n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
Power (n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
Power (n.) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
Power (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
Power (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
Power (n.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
Power (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
Power (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
Power (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
Powerable (a.) Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.
Powerable (a.) Capable of exerting power; powerful.
Powerful (a.) Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
Powerful (a.) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
Powerless (a.) Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
Powldron (n.) Same as Pauldron.
Powp (v. i.) See Poop, v. i.
Powter (n.) See Pouter.
Powpow (n.) A priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians.
Powpow (n.) Conjuration attended with great noise and confusion, and often with feasting, dancing, etc., performed by Indians for the cure of diseases, to procure success in hunting or in war, and for other purposes.
Powpow (n.) Hence: Any assembly characterized by noise and confusion; a noisy frolic or gathering.
Powwow (v. i.) To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.
Powwow (v. i.) Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.
Pox (n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
Poxed (imp. & p. p.) of Pox
Poxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pox
Pox (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Poy (n.) A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.
Poy (n.) A ropedancer's balancing pole.
Poy (n.) A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.
Poynado (n.) A poniard.
Poynd (n.) Alt. of Poynder
Poynder (n.) See Poind, Poinder.
Poy nette (n.) A bodkin.
Poyntel (n.) Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.
Poyou (n.) A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also sixbanded armadillo.
Poze (v. t.) See 5th Pose.
Pozzuolana (n.) Alt. of Pozzolana
Pozzolana (n.) Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.
Praam (n.) A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.
Practic (a.) Practical.
Practic (a.) Artful; deceitful; skillful.
Practicability (n.) The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.
Practicable (a.) That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.
Practicable (a.) Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road.
Practical (a.) Of or pertaining to practice or action.
Practical (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
Practical (a.) Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
Practical (a.) Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
Practicality (n.) The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.
Practically (adv.) In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.
Practically (adv.) By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.
Practically (adv.) In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.
Practically (adv.) Almost.
Practicalness (n.) Same as Practicality.
Practicalize (v. t.) To render practical.
Practice (n.) Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
Practice (n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.
Practice (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
Practice (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
Practice (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
Practice (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
Practice (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
Practice (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
Practice (n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
Practiced (imp. & p. p.) of Practice
Practicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Practice
Practice (v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
Practice (v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
Practice (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
Practice (v. t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
Practice (v. t.) To make use of; to employ.
Practice (v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
Practice (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
Practice (v. i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit.
Practice (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
Practice (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.
Practiced (a.) Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman.
Practiced (a.) Used habitually; learned by practice.
Practicer (n.) One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.
Practicer (n.) One who exercises a profession; a practitioner.
Practicer (n.) One who uses art or stratagem.
Practician (n.) One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.
Practick (n.) Practice.
Practisant (n.) An agent or confederate in treachery.
Practise (v. t. & i.) See Practice.
Practisour (n.) A practitioner.
Practitioner (n.) One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.
Practitioner (n.) One who does anything customarily or habitually.
Practitioner (n.) A sly or artful person.
Practive (a.) Doing; active.