Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea.

A high priest; a pontiff.

A high priest. 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. The chief priest. The pope.

Relating to, or consisting of, pontiffs or priests.

A book containing the offices, or formulas, used by a pontiff.

The state and government of the pope; the papacy.

In a pontifical manner.

To perform the duty of a pontiff.

Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge.

Papal; pontifical.

One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist.

Same as Pontee.

Of or pertaining to the pons Varolii. See Pons.

Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples.

The action of a horse in rearing repeatedly and dangerously.

See Pontoon.

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.

The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges.

A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.

See Pontee.

A small horse.

Excrement; feces; -- informal baby talk sometimes used as a euphemism.

To round one's lips as if intending to kiss.

A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.

A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.

Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh!

A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.

To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

A stick for stirring a tan vat.

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.

A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, Calophyllum inophullum, and Sterculia f/tida; -- called also peon.

A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.

To break over the poop or stern, as a wave. To strike in the stern, as by collision.

Having a poop; furnished with a poop.

Tired; exhausted; fatigued.

The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.

A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality.

Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base.

A bird of the Western United States (Phal/noptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

The bar-tailed godwit.

A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.

A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.

The quality or state of being poorly; ill health.

Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.

The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.

See pop corn under pop, n..

Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.

The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity.

A petty or deputy pope.

A word variously explained as /a little puppet,/ /a little doll,/ or /a young butterfly./ Cf. Popet.

The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.

A puppet.

A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.

Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.

Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.

Apoplexy.

A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted, -- used especially for women's dresses.

Popliteal.

See Raskolnik.

A dagger.

See Puppet.

Mingled or interspersed with poppies.

a. n. from Pop.

a small plastic bead with opposed holes and protuberant knobs, so shaped that the beads may be fastened to each other in chains and detached easily, and can be used to form variable-length chains for use as necklaces, bracelets, or other ornamental objects. Also called poppet and poppit bead.

The poplar.

Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule.

A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.

The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.

Populace.

Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.

The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates.

The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.

The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.

To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.

One who popularizes.

In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported.

The quality or state of being popular; popularity.

To propagate.

The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

One who populates.

Slaughter of the people.

A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.

The political doctrines advocated by the People's party.

A member of the People's party.

Populousness.

Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.

Poor people; the poor.

A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark.

Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.

A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.

Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.

Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells.

Porcelaneous.

A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.

Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.

Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.

To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.

Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind.

One who pores.

The scup. The sailor's choice, or pinfish. The margate fish. The spadefish. Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.

A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongi/, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongi/, Keratosa or Fibrospongi/, and Silicea.

One of the Polifera.

The Polifera.

Resembling a pore, or small puncture.

A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be almost self-evident.

Porosity.

A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.

Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.

Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.

Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritid/.

An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.

The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

A hog.

A young hog; a pig.

A pig; a porket.

The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.