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.

Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space.

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.

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.

Lascivious; licentious.

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.

A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.

A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.

Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.

In a porous manner.

The quality of being porous.

Porcupine.

A porpoise.

Porphyritic.

Porphyry.

A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.

Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.

The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.

To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.

The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born.

A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.

A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

Any small cetacean of the genus Phoc/na, especially Phoc/na communis, or Phoc/na phoc/na, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (Phoc/na Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.

A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by medi/val artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold.

A porpoise.

Resembling the leek in color; greenish.

Extended horizontally; stretched out.

The act of stretching forth.

A scallion; a leek or small onion.

A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.

To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.

One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.

The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus. The foramen of Monro.

The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.