Webster's Dictionary 1913

6238

Pomona

Po‐mo″na (?), n. [L., from pomum fruit.] (Class. Myth.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees.

6239

Pomp

Pomp (?), n. [OE. pompe, F. pompe, L. pompa, fr. Gr. � a sending, a solemn procession, pomp, fr. � to send. Cf. Pump a shoe.] 1. A procession distinguished by ostentation and sp...

6240

Pomp (2)

Pomp (?), v. i. To make a pompons display; to conduct. B. Jonson.

6241

Pompadour

Pom″pa‐dour (?), n. A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehe...

6242

Pompano

Pom″pa‐no (?), n. [Sp. pámpano.] [Written also pampano.] (Zoöl.) 1. Any one of several species of marine fishes of the genus Trachynotus, of which four species are found on the ...

6243

Pompatic

Pom‐pat″ic (?), a. [L. pompaticus.] Pompous. Barrow.

6244

Pompeian

Pom‐pe″ian (?), a. [L. Pompeianus.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, Pompeii, an ancient city of Italy, buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 a. d., and partly uncover...

6245

Pompeian red

Pompeian red. (Art) A brownish red approaching maroon, supposed to be imitated from the color of the wall panels of houses in Pompeii, which were decorated during the last age o...

6246

Pompelmous

Pom″pel‐mous (?), n.; pl.Pompelmouses (#). [D. pompelmoes; cf. G. pompelmuse, F. pamplemousse, and F. pompoléon.] (Bot.) A shaddock, esp. one of large size.

6247

Pompet

Pom″pet (?), n. [OF. pompette.] (Print.) The ball formerly used to ink the type.

6248

Pompholyx

Pom″pho‐lyx (?), n. 1. (Old Chem.) Impure zinc oxide.2. (Med.) A skin disease in which there is an eruption of bullæ, without inflammation or fever.

6249

Pompillion

Pom‐pil″lion (?), n. An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds. Cotgrave.

6250

Pompion

Pom″pi‐on (?), n. [OF. pompon. See Pumpkin.] See Pumpion.

6251

Pompire

Pom″pire (?), n. [L. pomum a fruit, LL. also, an apple + pirum a pear.] A pearmain.

6252

Pompoleon

Pom‐po″le‐on (?), n.(Bot.) See Pompelmous.

6253

Pompon

Pom″pon (?), n. 1. Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.2. (Mil.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead...

6254

Pompon (2)

Pom″pon (?), n. (a) A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.

6255

Pomposity

Pom‐pos″i‐ty (?), n.; pl.Pomposities (�). The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.

6256

Pomposo

‖Pom‐po″so (?), a. & adv.(Mus.) Grand and dignified; in grand style.

6257

Pompous

Pomp″ous (?), a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See Pomp.] 1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boast...

6258

Pomptine

Pomp″tine (?), a. See Pontine.

6259

Pomwater

Pom″wa′ter (?), n. Same as Pomewater.

6260

Poncelet

Ponce″let (?), n. [After Jean Victor Poncelet, French engineer.] (Physics) A unit of power, being the power obtained from an expenditure of one hundred kilogram-meters of energy...

6261

Poncho

Pon″cho (?), n.; pl.Ponchos (�). 1. A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind o...

6262

Pond

Pond (?), n. [Probably originally, an inclosed body of water, and the same word as pound. See Pound an inclosure.] A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usual...

6263

Pond (2)

Pond (?), v. t. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

6264

Pond (3)

Pond, v. t. [See Ponder.] To ponder.Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint. Spenser.