A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.

Nightmare.

The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.

A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see).

To become soft or muddy.

A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water widgeon, or red-headed widgeon. The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.

One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.

The state of being poachy; marshiness.

Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land

Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.

The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.

See Poachard.

A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

See Pockmarked.

Pockmarked; pitted.

A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

See Pockmarked.

To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.

As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.

A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

The state of being pocky.

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Lignum-vit/.

Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco pi/ allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.

Peacock.

A careless person; a trifler.

Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia.

Fit for drink.

Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.

To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

Gout in the joints of the foot; -- applied also to gout in other parts of body.

Gouty; podagric.

pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.

The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.

Having pods.

One who collects pods or pulse.

A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

A puddle; a plash.

Fat and short; pudgy.

Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.

See Grebe.

A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began. The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.

A young coalfish.

One of the branchi/ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.

Same as Podobranch.

A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.

Same as Basigynium

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.

The eyestalk of a crustacean.

Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels. Of or pertaining to the Podophthalmia.

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.

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.

A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.

An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.

The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.

A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.

Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail.

Any species of Podura or allied genera. Pertaining to the poduras.

Same as Poi.

The parson bird.

Same as Poicile.

The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.

Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks. Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors.

One of the P/cilopoda. Also used adjectively.

Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea). By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.

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.

Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical.

A variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in New Zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons.

See Penology.

A group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies.

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art.

The works of a poetaster.

A female poet.

Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.

In a poetic manner.

The principles and rules of the art of poetry.

A poetaster.

To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.

The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

The state or personality of a poet.

An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.

See Porgy. A small whale.

The menhaden.

An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !

See Pauhaugen.

A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.

Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.

In a poignant manner.

See P/cilitic.

An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound an/mia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.

Poikilothermal.

A prickly tropical shrub (C/salpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

To impound, as cattle.

The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.

A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.

To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at.

the lead soldier in a foot patrol under combat conditions.

In a point-blank manner.

Exactly.

The pistil of a plant.

Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.

See Pointal.

One who, or that which, points. The hand of a timepiece. One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen. The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star. Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.

A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).

The act of sharpening.

An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.

Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.

Without point.

Having a small, distinct point; apiculate.

A graving tool.