Pontine (a.) Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples.
Pontlevis (n.) The action of a horse in rearing repeatedly and dangerously.
Ponton (n.) See Pontoon.
Pontoon (n.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.
Pontoon (n.) A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.
Pontooning (n.) The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges.
Ponvolant (n.) A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.
Ponty (n.) See Pontee.
Ponies (pl. ) of Pony
Pony (n.) A small horse.
Pony (n.) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
Pony (n.) A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib.
Pony (n.) A small glass of beer.
Pood (n.) A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.
Poodle (n.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.
Pooh (interj.) Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
Pooh-pooh (v. t.) To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!
Pookoo (n.) A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.
Pool (n.) A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.
Pool (n.) A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
Pool (n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
Pool (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
Pool (n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
Pool (n.) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
Pool (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
Pool (n.) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
Pool (n.) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
Pooled (imp. & p. p.) of Pool
Pooling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pool
Pool (v. t.) To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
Pool (v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Pooler (n.) A stick for stirring a tan vat.
Pooling (n.) The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits.
Poon (n.) A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.
Poonac (n.) A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.
Poonga oil () A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra).
Poop (n.) See 2d Poppy.
Pooped (imp. & p. p.) of Poop
Pooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poop
Poop (v. i.) To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
Poop (n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.
Poop (v. t.) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.
Poop (v. t.) To strike in the stern, as by collision.
Pooped (p. p. & a.) Having a poop; furnished with a poop.
Pooped (p. p. & a.) Struck on the poop.
Pooping (n.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.
Poor (superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
Poor (superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
Poor (superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
Poor (superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
Poor (superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
Poor (superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
Poor (superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
Poor (superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
Poor (superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
Poor (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
Poor (superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
Poor (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
Poorbox (n.) A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.
Poorhouse (n.) A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.
Poor-john (n.) A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality.
Poorliness (n.) The quality or state of being poorly; ill health.
Poorly (adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.
Poorly (adv.) With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.
Poorly (adv.) Meanly; without spirit.
Poorly (adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.
Poorly (a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.
Poorness (n.) The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Poor-spirited (a.) Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base.
Poor-will (n.) A bird of the Western United States (Phalaenoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.
Poor-willie (n.) The bar-tailed godwit.
Pop (n.) A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.
Pop (n.) An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.
Pop (n.) The European redwing.
Popped (imp. & p. p.) of Pop
Popping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pop
Pop (v. i.) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets popped away on all sides.
Pop (v. i.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off, etc.
Pop (v. i.) To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well.
Pop (v. t.) To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door.
Pop (v. t.) To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.
Pop (adv.) Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.
Pope (n.) Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
Pope (n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
Pope (n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
Pope (n.) A fish; the ruff.
Popedom (n.) The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity.
Popedom (n.) The jurisdiction of the pope.
Popeling (n.) A petty or deputy pope.
Popeling (n.) An adherent of the pope.
Popelote (n.) A word variously explained as "a little puppet," "a little doll," or "a young butterfly." Cf. Popet.
Popery (n.) The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.
Popet (n.) A puppet.
Popgun (n.) A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.
Popinjay (n.) The green woodpecker.
Popinjay (n.) A parrot.
Popinjay (n.) A target in the form of a parrot.
Popinjay (n.) A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb.
Popish (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.