Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 84
Pocketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pocket.
Pocket (v. t.) 把……裝入袋內；侵吞，盜用（款項等） To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
He would pocket the expense of the license. -- Sterne.
Pocket (v. t.) To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. -- Macaulay.
To pocket a ball (Billiards), To drive a ball into a pocket of the table.
To pocket an insult, affront, etc., To receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs." -- Shak.
Pocket (n.) A small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
Pocket (n.) An enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"[syn: pouch, sac, sack, pocket].
Pocket (n.) A supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets."
Pocket (n.) (Bowling) The space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike."
Pocket (n.) A hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: scoop, pocket].
Pocket (n.) A local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly [syn: air pocket, pocket, air hole].
Pocket (n.) A small isolated group of people; "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance."
Pocket (n.) (Anatomy) Saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) [syn: pouch, pocket].
Pocket (n.) An opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck.
Pocket (v.) Put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change."
Pocket (v.) Take unlawfully [syn: pocket, bag].
Pocket (n.) The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
Pocketbook (n.) A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
Pocketbook (n.) Your personal financial means; "that car is too expensive for my pocketbook."
Pocketbook (n.) A pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money [syn: wallet, billfold, notecase, pocketbook].
Pocketbook (n.) Pocket-sized paperback book [syn: pocketbook, pocket book, pocket edition].
Pocketbook (n.) A container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb" [syn: bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse].
Pocketfuls (n. pl. ) of Pocketful.
Pocketful (n.) As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.
Pocketful (n.) The quantity a pocket will hold.
-knives (n. pl. ) of Pocketknife.
Pocketknife (n.) A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
Pocketknife (n.) A knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket [syn: pocketknife, pocket knife].
Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.
Pockiness (n.) The state of being pocky.
Pockmark (n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.
Pockmark (n.) A scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease.
Pockmark (v.) Mark with or as if with pockmarks; "Her face was pockmarked by the disease."
Pockmarked (a.) Marked by smallpox; pitted.
Pockmarked (a.) Used of paved surfaces having holes or pits [syn: pocked, pockmarked, potholed].
Pockmarked (a.) Marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease [syn: pocked, pockmarked].
Pock-pitted (a.) Pockmarked; pitted.
Pock-pudding (n.) A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
Pockwood (n.) (Bot.) Lignum-vitae.
Pocky (a.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. -- Bp. Hall.
Poco (adv.) [It.] (Mus.) A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.
Poco a poco [It.] (Mus.) Little by little; as, poco a poco crescendo, gradually increasing in loudness.
Pocock (n.) Peacock. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Pococurante (n.) A careless person; a trifler. [R.]
Pococurantism (n.) Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Pocoson (n.) Low, wooded grounds
or swamps in Eastern Maryland and
Poculent (a.) Fit for drink. [Obs.] "Some those herbs which are not esculent, are . . . poculent." -- Bacon.
Poculiform (a.) Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.
-pod () A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.
Pod (n.) A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Tusser.
Pod (n.) (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
Pod (n.) (Zool.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.
Pod auger, or pod bit, An auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.
Podded (imp. & p. p.) of Pod.
Podding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pod.
Pod (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
Pod (n.) The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase].
Pod (n.) A several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant [syn: pod, seedpod].
Pod (n.) A group of aquatic mammals.
Pod (n.) A detachable container of fuel on an airplane [syn: pod, fuel pod].
Pod (v.) Take something out of its shell or pod; "pod peas or beans."
Pod (v.) Produce pods, of plants.
POD, () Plain Old Document [format].
POD, () Print / Publishing On Demand, "PoD."
Pod, () Not to be confused with P.O.D..
Pod, () (Allegedly from abbreviation POD for "Prince Of Darkness") A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality impact printer). From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used to feed formatted text to it.
Pod, () Plain Old Documentation.
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-poda () A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. ?, ?, foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.
PODA, () Piloting of ODA (ESPRIT, SNI, Bull, TITN, ICL, Olivetti, ODA)
Podagra (n.) Gout in the joints of the foot; -- applied also to gout in other parts of body. Podagric
Podagric (a.) Alt. of Podagrical.
Podagrical (a.) Pertaining to the gout; gouty; caused by gout.
Podagrical (a.) Afflicted with gout. -- Sir T. Browne.
Podagrous (a.) Gouty; podagric.
Podalgia (n.) (Med.) Pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.
Podalgia (n.) Foot pain.
Podarthra (n. pl. ) of Podarthrum.
Podarthrum (n.) (Anat.) The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.
Podded (a.) Having pods.
Podder (n.) One who collects pods or pulse.
Podesta (n.) One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. -- Brande & C.
Podesta (n.) A mayor, alderman,
or other magistrate, in some towns of
Podetia (n. pl. ) of Podetium.
Podetiums (n. pl. ) of Podetium.
Podetium (n.) (Bot.) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.
Podetium (n.) An organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne.
Podge (n.) A puddle; a plash. -- Skinner.
Podge (n.) Porridge. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Podgy (a.) Fat and short; pudgy.
Podgy (a.) Short and plump [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly].
Podical (a.) (Zool.) Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.
Podiceps (n.) (Zool.) See Grebe.
Podiceps (n.) Type genus of the Podicipedidae: grebes [syn: Podiceps, genus Podiceps].
Podia (n. pl. ) of Podium.
Podium (n.) (Arch.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by arch[ae]ologists in two senses:
Podium (n.) The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.
Podium (n.) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers. See Illust. of Column.
Podium (n.) (Zool.) The foot.
Podium (n.) A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox].
Compare: Pollock
Pollock (n.) [See Pollack.] (Zool.) A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.
Podley (n.) (Zool.) A young coalfish.
Podo- () A combining form or prefix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, podocarp, podocephalous, podology.
Podobranch (n.) (Zool.) One of the branchiae attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
Podobranchiae (n. pl. ) of Podobranchia.
Podobranchia (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) Same as Podobranch.
Podocarp (n.) (Bot.) A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.
Podocarp (n.) Any evergreen in the southern hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed.
Podocephalous (a.) (Bot.) Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.
Podogynium (n.) (Bot.) Same as Basigynium.
Podophthalmia (n. pl.) (Zool.) The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda. Podophthalmic
Podophthalmic (a.) Alt. of Podophthalmous.
Podophthalmous (a.) (Zool.) Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels.
Podophthalmous (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Podophthalmia.
Podophthalmite (n.) (Zool.) The eyestalk of a crustacean.
Podophyllin (n.) (Chem.) A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple ({Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.
Podophyllous (a.) (Zool.) Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.
Podophyllous (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminae, beneath a horse's hoof.
Podophyllum (n.) (Bot.) A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower.
There are two species, the American Podophyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan Podophyllum Emodi.
Podophyllum (n.) (Med.) The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple ({Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.
Podophyllum (n.) Perennial rhizomatous herbs [syn: Podophyllum, genus Podophyllum].
Podoscaph (n.) A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.
Podosperm (n.) (Bot.) The stalk of a seed or ovule.
Podostomata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.
Compare: Pterobranchia
Pterobranchia (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord.
The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called {Podostomata"> also {Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.
Podothecae (n. pl. ) of Podotheca.
Podotheca (n.) (Zool.) The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.
Podrida (n.) A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.
Podurae (n. pl. ) of Podura.
Poduras (n. pl. ) of Podura.
Podura
(n.) Any
small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a
springtail.
Podura scale (Zool.), One of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope.
Podurid (n.) (Zool.) Any species of Podura or allied genera.
Podurid (a.) Pertaining to the poduras.
Poe (n.) Same as Poi.
Poe (n.) United States writer and poet (1809-1849) [syn: Poe, Edgar Allan Poe].
Poebird (n.) (Zool.) The parson bird.
Poecile (n.) Same as Poicile.
Compare: Poicile
Poicile or Poecile (n.) The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught. -- R. Browning.
Poecilitic (a.) (Geol.) Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.
Poecilitic (a.) (Geol.) Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors. [Also written poikilitic.]
Poecilopod (n.) (Zool.) One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.
Poecilopoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs ({Limuloidea).
Poecilopoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.
Poem (n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
Poem (n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
Poem (n.) A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines [syn: poem, verse form].
POEM, () Portable Object-orientated Entity Manager (SGML).
Poematic (a.) Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Poenamu (n.) (Min.) A variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in New Zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons.
Compare: Penology
Penology (n.) The science or art of punishment. [Written also p[oe]nology.]
Poenology (n.) See Penology.
Poenology (n.) The branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation [syn: penology, poenology].
Poephaga (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies. -- Po*eph"a*gous, a.
Poesy (n.) The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. -- Shak.