Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 93
Pommel (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written also pummel.]
Pommel (n.) A handgrip that a gymnast uses when performing exercises on a pommel horse.
Pommel (n.) Handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle [syn: pommel, saddlebow].
Pommel (n.) An ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger [syn: knob, pommel].
Pommel (v.) Strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators" [syn: pummel, pommel, biff].
Pommelion (n.) (Mil.) The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon. [R.]
Pommette (a.) [F.] Having two balls or protuberances at each end; -- said of a cross.
Pomological (a.) [Cf. F. pomologique.] Of or pertaining to pomology.
Pomologist (n.) One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.
Pomologist (n.) Someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees.
Pomology (n.) 果樹栽培學 The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.
Pomology (n.) The branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits.
Pomona (n.) (Class. Myth.) The goddess of fruits and fruit trees.
Pomona, NJ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Jersey
Population (2000): 4019
Housing Units (2000): 1357
Land area (2000): 2.796036 sq. miles (7.241700 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.796036 sq. miles (7.241700 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60030
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.467258 N, 74.547740 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pomona, NJ
Pomona
Pomona, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 149473
Housing Units (2000): 39598
Land area (2000): 22.840225 sq. miles (59.155909 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 22.840225 sq. miles (59.155909 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58072
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.060760 N, 117.755886 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 91767 91768
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Headwords:
Pomona, CA
Pomona
Pomona, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 2726
Housing Units (2000): 925
Land area (2000): 2.427436 sq. miles (6.287031 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.427436 sq. miles (6.287031 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58992
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.186504 N, 74.055417 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 10970
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Headwords:
Pomona, NY
Pomona
Pomona, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 923
Housing Units (2000): 380
Land area (2000): 0.756028 sq. miles (1.958103 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.756028 sq. miles (1.958103 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57000
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.609277 N, 95.451732 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66076
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Headwords:
Pomona, KS
Pomona
Pomp (n.) A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. "All the pomps of a Roman triumph." -- Addison.
Pomp (n.) Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
Syn: Display; parade; pageant; pageantry; splendor; state; magnificence; ostentation; grandeur; pride.
Pomp (v. i.) To make a pompons display; to conduct. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Pomp (n.) Cheap or pretentious or vain display [syn: gaudery, pomp].
Pomp (n.) Ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses" [syn: pomp, eclat].
Pompadour (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 forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.
Pompadour (n.) French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764) [syn: Pompadour, Marquise de Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson].
Pompadour (n.) A hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead.
Pompadour (v.) Style women's hair in a pompadour.
Pompano (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of marine fishes of the genus Trachynotus, of which four species are found on the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- called also palometa.
Note: They have a brilliant silvery or golden luster, and are highly esteemed as food fishes. The round pompano ({Trachynotus thomboides) and the Carolina pompano ({Trachynotus Carolinus) are the most common. Other species occur on the Pacific coast.
Pompano (n.) A California harvest fish ({Stromateus simillimus), highly valued as a food fish.
Pompano shell (Zool.), A small bivalve shell of the genus Donax; -- so called because eaten by the pompano. [Florida]
Pompano (n.) Flesh of pompano; warm-water fatty fish.
Pompano (n.) Any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
Pompatic (a.) Pompous. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Pompelmouses (n. pl. ) of Pompelmous.
Compare: Shaddock
Shaddock (n.) (Bot.) A tree ({Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
Pompelmous (n.) (Bot.) A shaddock, esp. one of large size.
Pompet (n.) (Print.) The ball formerly used to ink the type.
Pompholyx (n.) (Old Chem.) Impure zinc oxide.
Pompholyx (n.) (Med.) A skin disease in which there is an eruption of bullae, without inflammation or fever.
Pompillion (n.) An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds. [Obs.]
Pompion (n.) See Pumpion.
Pompire (n.) A pearmain. [Obs.]
Pompoleon (n.) (Bot.) See Pompelmous.
Pompon (n.) Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.
Pompon (n.) (Mil.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.
Pompon (n.) (a) A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers.
Pompon (n.) (b) Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.
Pompon (n.) Decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat [syn: pom-pom].
Pompon (n.) Dusky gray food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward [syn: black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis].
Pomposities (n. pl. ) of Pomposity.
Pomposity (n.) The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness.
Pomposity (n.) Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, inflation].
Pomposo (a. & adv.) (Mus.) Grand and dignified; in grand style.
Pompous (a.) 傲慢的，自大的，誇大的，豪華的 Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
Pompous (a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.
“Pompous in high presumption.” he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress. -- Thackeray. -- Pom*ous*ly, adv. -- Pomp*ous*ness, n.
Pompous (a.) Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey" -- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous].
Pompousness (n.) 傲慢；豪華；壯觀 Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: {ostentation}, {ostentatiousness}, {pomposity}, {pompousness}, {pretentiousness}, {puffiness}, {splashiness}, {inflation}].
Pomptine (a.) See Pontine.
Compare: Pontine
Pontine (a.) Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples. [Written also Pomptine.]
Compare: Pomewater
Pomewater (n.) A kind of sweet, juicy apple. [Written also pomwater.]
Pomwater (n.) Same as Pomewater.
Ponchos (n. pl. ) of Poncho.
Poncho (n.) 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 of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.
Poncho (n.) A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.
Pond (n.) A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake. “Through pond or pool.”
Pond hen Zool., the American coot. See Coot (a).
Pond lily Bot., the water lily. See under Water, and Illust. under Nymphæa.
Pond snail Zool., any gastropod living in fresh-water ponds or lakes. The most common kinds are air-breathing snails (Pulmonifera) belonging to Limnæa, Physa, Planorbis, and allied genera. The operculated species are pectinibranchs, belonging to Melantho, Valvata, and various other genera.
Pond spice Bot., an American shrub (Tetranthera geniculata) of the Laurel family, with small oval leaves, and axillary clusters of little yellow flowers. The whole plant is spicy. It grows in ponds and swamps from Virginia to Florida.
Pond tortoise, Pond turtle Zool., any freshwater tortoise of the family Emydidæ. Numerous species are found in North America.
Pond (v. t.) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
Pond (v. t.) To ponder. [Obs.]
Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint. -- Spenser.
Pond (n.) A small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing" [syn: pool].
Pondered (imp. & p. p.) of Ponder.
Pondering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ponder.
Ponder (v. t.) To weigh. [Obs.]
Ponder (v. t.) To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.
Ponder the path of thy feet. -- Prov. iv. 26.
Syn: -- To Ponder, Consider, Muse.
Usage: To consider means to view or contemplate with fixed thought. To ponder is to dwell upon with long and anxious attention, with a view to some practical result or decision. To muse is simply to think upon continuously with no definite object, or for the pleasure it gives. We consider any subject which is fairly brought before us; we ponder a concern involving great interests; we muse on the events of childhood.
Ponder (v. i.) To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over.
Ponder (v.) : Reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate].
Ponderability (n.) The quality or state of being ponderable.
Ponderable (a.) Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon*der*a*ble*ness, n.
Ponderable (a.) Capable of being weighed or considered; "something ponderable from the outer world -- something of which we can say that its weight is so and so" -- James Jeans [ant: imponderable].
Ponderable (a.) Possible to ponder; "space flight to other galaxies becomes more cogitable" [syn: cogitable].
Ponderal (a.) Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. [R.]
Ponderance (n.) Weight; gravity. [R.]
Ponderary (a.) Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. [R.]
Ponderate (v. t.) To consider; to ponder. [R.]
Ponderate (v. i.) To have weight or influence. [R.]
Ponderation (n.) The act of weighing. [R.]
Ponderer (n.) One who ponders.
Ponderer (n.) A reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation [syn: muser, muller, ruminator].
Pondering (a.) Deliberating. -- Pon*der*ing*ly, adv.
Pondering (a.) Persistently or morbidly thoughtful [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative].
Ponderosities (n. pl. ) of Ponderosity.
Ponderosity (n.) The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold.
Ponderosity (n.) The property of being large in mass [syn: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness].
Ponderous (a.) Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant.
The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. -- Shak.
Ponderous (a.) Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." -- Shak.
Ponderous (a.) Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke.
Ponderous spar (Min.), Heavy spar, or barytes. See Barite.
Ponderous (a.) Slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn" [syn: heavy, lumbering, ponderous].
Ponderous (a.) Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons."
Ponderous (a.) Labored and dull; "a ponderous speech."
Ponderously (adv.) In a ponderous manner.
Ponderously (adv.) In an uninterestingly ponderous manner; "the play was staged with ponderously realistic sets."
Ponderously (adv.) In a heavy ponderous manner; "he moves ponderously."
Ponderousness (n.) The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.
Ponderousness (n.) An oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition" [syn: ponderousness, heaviness].
Ponderousness (n.) The property of being large in mass [syn: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderosity].
Pondfish (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish.
Note: The common pondfish of New England ({Lepomis gibbosus) is called also bream, pumpkin seed, and sunny. See Sunfish. The long-eared pondfish ({Lepomis auritus) of the Eastern United States is distinguished by its very long opercular flap.
Compare: Sunfish
Sunfish (n.) (Zool.) (a) A very large oceanic plectognath fish ({Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.
Sunfish (n.) (Zool.) (b) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee ({Lepomis pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish ({Lepomis auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.
Sunfish (n.) (c) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
Sunfish (n.) (d) The opah.
Sunfish (n.) (e) The basking, or liver, shark.
Sunfish (n.) (f) Any large jellyfish.
Sunfish (n.) The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae.
Sunfish (n.) Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters [syn: ocean sunfish, mola, headfish].
Sunfish (n.) Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed [syn: centrarchid] [also: sunfishes (pl)].
Pondweed (n.) (Bot.) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers.
Choke pondweed, An American water weed (Anarcharis Canadensis, syn. Elodea Canadensis.) See Anacharis.
Horned pondweed, The Zannichellia palustris, a slender, branching aquatic plant, having pointed nutlets.
Pondweed (n.) Any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae.
Pondweed (n.) Submerged freshwater perennials [syn: Elodea, genus Elodea, ditchmoss].
Pone (n.) A kind of johnnycake. [Written also paune.] [Southern U. S.]
Pone (n.) (a) An original writ, now superseded by the writ of certiorari, for removing a case from an inferior court into the Court of Exchequer.
Pone (n.) (b) An obsolete writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.
Pone (n.) (Card Playing) The player who cuts the cards, being usually the player on the dealer's right.
Pone (n.) Cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (Southern) [syn: cornpone].
Ponent (a.) Western; occidental. [R.]
Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. -- Milton.
Pongee (n.) A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.
Pongee (n.) A soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation).
Ponghee (n.) A Buddhist priest of the higher orders in Burmah.
Pongo (n.) (Zool.) Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang.
Pongo (n.) Type genus of the family Pongidae: orangutans [syn: genus Pongo].
Poniard (n.) A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade.
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. -- Shak.
Poniarded (imp. & p. p.) of Poniard.
Poniarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poniard.
Poniard (v. t.) To pierce with a poniard; to stab. -- Cowper.
Poniard (n.) A dagger with a slender blade [syn: poniard, bodkin].
Poniard (v.) Stab with a poniard.
Ponibility (n.) The capability of being placed or located. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Pontes (n. pl. ) of Pons.
Pons (n.) (Anat.) A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain.
Pons asinorum. [L., literally, bridge of asses.] See Asses' bridge, under Ass.
Pons (n.) A band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain [syn: pons Varolii] [also: pontes (pl.)]
Pontage (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges. -- Ayliffe.
Pontage. () A contribution towards the maintenance, rebuilding or repairs of a bridge. The toll taken for this purpose also bears this name. Obsolete.
Pontee (n.) (Glass Making) An iron rod used by glass makers for manipulating the hot glass; -- called also, puntil, puntel, punty, and ponty. See Fascet.
Compare: Fascet
Fascet (n.) (Glass Making) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.
Pontic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea.
Pontifices (n. pl. ) of Pontifex.
Pontifex (n.) [L.] A high priest; a pontiff.
Pontifex (n.) A member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome. [also: pontifices (pl.)]
Pontiff (n.) （亦作P-）羅馬教宗；主教 A high priest. Especially:
Pontiff (n.) (a) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus. -- Dr. W. Smith.
Pontiff (n.) (b) (Jewish Antiq.) The chief priest.
Pontiff (n.) (c) (R. C. Ch.) The pope.
Pontiff (n.) The head of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: pope, Catholic Pope, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Holy Father, Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome].
Pontific (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, pontiffs or priests. "The pontific college with their augurs and flamens." -- Milton.
Pontific (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; papal. -- Shenstone.
Pontifical (a.) 羅馬教皇的，主教的，祭司長 Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as, pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal.
Pontifical (a.) Of or pertaining to the building of bridges. [R.]
Now had they brought the work by wondrous art Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock Over the vexed abyss. -- Milton.
Pontifical (n.) [F.] 主教禮儀書 A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff. -- South.
Pontifical (n.) (pl.) 主教祭服及徽章 The dress and ornaments of a pontiff. "Dressed in full pontificals." -- Sir W. Scott.
Pontifical (a.) Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; "papal dispensation" [syn: papal, apostolic, apostolical, pontifical].
Pontifical (a.) Denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops [syn: episcopal, pontifical].
Pontifical (a.) Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous].
Pontifical (n.) The vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop).
Pontificality (n.) The state and government of the pope; the papacy. [R.] -- Bacon.
Pontifically (adv.) In a pontifical manner.
Pontificate (n.) 教宗（或主教）之職權及任期 The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope. -- Addison.
Pontificate (n.) The term of office of a pontiff. -- Milman.
Pontificate (v. i.) (R. C. Ch.) 行教宗（或主教）職責；神氣活現地行動；武斷地表示意見 To perform the duty of a pontiff.
Pontificate (n.) The government of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: papacy, pontificate].
Pontificate (v.) Administer a pontifical office.
Pontificate (v.) Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner; "The new professor always pontificates."
Pontifice (n.) Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge. [R.] -- Milton.
Pontificial (a.) Papal; pontifical. [Obs.] "Pontificial writers." -- Burton.
Pontifician (a.) Of or pertaining to the pontiff or pope. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Pontifician (n.) One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist. [Obs.] -- Bp. Montagu.
Pontil (n.) Same as Pontee.
Pontile (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pons Varolii. See Pons.