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Pousse-cafe

A drink served after coffee at dinner, usually one of several liqueurs, or cordials, of different specific gravities poured so as to remain separate in layers; hence, such a drink of cordials served at any time.

Poussette

To perform a certain movement in a dance.

Pout

The European whiting pout or bib.

Pouter

One who, or that which, pouts.

Poverty

The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

Powder

To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.

Powder-posted

Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.

Powdered

Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

Powderflask

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

Powdery

Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.

Powen Powan

A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or Coregonus ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

Power

Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.

power-dive power dive

To cause (an airplane) to make a power dive; as, he power-dived his plane to escape the attackers.

Powerable

Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.

Powerful

Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.

Powerless

Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.

Powwow

To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.

Pox

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Poy

A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.

Poyntel

Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.

Poyou

A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also sixbanded armadillo.

Pozzolana Pozzuolana

Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.

Praam

A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.

Practicability

The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.

Practicable

That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Practical

Of or pertaining to practice or action.

Practicality

The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.

Practically

In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.

Practice

To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.

Practiced

Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman.

Practicer

One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.

Practician

One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

Practitioner

One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.

Praecipe

A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it. A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued.

Praecoces

A division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.

Praecognita

This previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else.

Praecommissure

A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.

Praecordia

The front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.

Praecornu

The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

Praemunire

To subject to the penalties of pr/munire.

Praenomen

The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.

Praetexta

A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

Praetores

A division of butterflies including the satyrs.

Pragmatical Pragmatic

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

Pragmatism

The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.

Pragmatize

To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize.

Prairial

The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.

Prairie

An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.

Praisable

Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable.

Praise

Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.

Praiseworthy

Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.

Prakrit

Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

Praline

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

Pralltriller

A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.

Pram

a perambulator{3}; -- British informal shortened form.

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