Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 84

Pocketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pocket

Pocket (v. t.) To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

Pocket (v. t.) To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

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

Pocketfuls (pl. ) of Pocketful

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

-knives (pl. ) of Pocketknife

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

Pock-fretten (a.) See Pockmarked.

Pockiness (n.) The state of being pocky.

Pockmark (n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Pockmarked (a.) Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Pock-pitted (a.) Pockmarked; pitted.

Pock-pudding (n.) A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

Pockwood (n.) Lignum-vitae.

Pocky (superl.) Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

Poco (adv.) A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.

Pocock (n.) Peacock.

Pococurante (n.) A careless person; a trifler.

Pococurantism (n.) Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

Pocoson (n.) Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia.

Poculent (a.) Fit for drink.

Poculiform (a.) Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.

-pod () A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.

Pod (n.) A bag; a pouch.

Pod (n.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.

Pod (n.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.

Podded (imp. & p. p.) of Pod

Podding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pod

Pod (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

-poda () A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. /, /, foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.

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

Podagric (a.) Alt. of Podagrical

Podagrical (a.) Pertaining to the gout; gouty; caused by gout.

Podagrical (a.) Afflicted with gout.

Podagrous (a.) Gouty; podagric.

Podalgia (n.) pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.

Podarthra (pl. ) of Podarthrum

Podarthrum (n.) The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.

Podded (a.) Having pods.

Podder (n.) One who collects pods or pulse.

Podesta (n.) One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages.

Podesta (n.) A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy.

Podetia (pl. ) of Podetium

Podetiums (pl. ) of Podetium

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

Podge (n.) A puddle; a plash.

Podge (n.) Porridge.

Podgy (a.) Fat and short; pudgy.

Podical (a.) Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.

Podiceps (n.) See Grebe.

Podia (pl. ) of Podium

Podium (n.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall.

Podium (n.) The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began.

Podium (n.) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.

Podium (n.) The foot.

Podley (n.) A young coalfish.

Podo- () A combining form or prefix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, podocarp, podocephalous, podology.

Podobranch (n.) One of the branchiae attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.

Podobranchiae (pl. ) of Podobranchia

Podobranchia (n.) Same as Podobranch.

Podocarp (n.) A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

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

Podogynium (n.) Same as Basigynium

Podophthalmia (n. pl.) 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.

Podophthalmic (a.) Alt. of Podophthalmous

Podophthalmous (a.) Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels.

Podophthalmous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Podophthalmia.

Podophthalmite (n.) The eyestalk of a crustacean.

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

Podophyllous (a.) Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.

Podophyllous (a.) Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminae, beneath a horse's hoof.

Podophyllum (n.) A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.

Podophyllum (n.) The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.

Podoscaph (n.) A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.

Podosperm (n.) The stalk of a seed or ovule.

Podostomata (n. pl.) An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.

Podothecae (pl. ) of Podotheca

Podotheca (n.) The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.

Podrida (n.) A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.

Podurae (pl. ) of Podura

Poduras (pl. ) of Podura

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

Podurid (n.) Any species of Podura or allied genera.

Podurid (a.) Pertaining to the poduras.

Poe (n.) Same as Poi.

Poebird (n.) The parson bird.

Poecile (n.) Same as Poicile.

Poecilitic (a.) Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.

Poecilitic (a.) Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors.

Poecilopod (n.) One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.

Poecilopoda (n. pl.) Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).

Poecilopoda (n. pl.) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.

Poem (n.) 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.

Poem (n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

Poematic (a.) Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical.

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

Poenology (n.) See Penology.

Poephaga (n. pl.) A group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies.

Poesy (n.) The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.

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