Pneumonometer

Pneu`mo*nom"e*ter (?), n. [See Pneumo-, and -meter.] (Physiol.) A spirometer; a pneumometer.

Pneumonophora

Pneu`mo*noph"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. a lung + to bear.] (Zoöl.) The division of Siphonophora which includes the Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophoræ.

Pneumony

Pneu"mo*ny (?), n. [Cf. F. pneumonie.] See Pneumonia.

Pneumoötoka

Pneu`mo*öt"o*ka (?), n. pl. [NL. See Pneumo-, and Oöticoid.] (Zoöl.) Same as Sauropsida.

Pneumophora

Pneu*moph"o*ra (?), n. pl. [NL. See Pneumonophora.] (Zoöl.) (Zoöl.) A division of holothurians having an internal gill, or respiratory tree.

Pneumoskeleton

Pneu`mo*skel"e*ton (?), n. [Pneumo- + skeleton.] (Zoöl.) A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.

Pneumotherapy

Pneu`mo*ther"a*py (?), n. [Gr. air + therapy.] (Med.) The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.

Pneumothorax

Pneu`mo*tho"rax (?), n. [Gr. air + E. thorax.] (Med.) A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.

Pnigalion

Pni*ga"li*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. nightmare, fr. to throttle.] (Med.) Nightmare.

Pnyx

Pnyx (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. .] (Gr. Antiq.) The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.

Poa

Po"a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. grass.] (Bot.) 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).

Poach

Poach (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poached (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Poaching.] [F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs (the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See Pouch, v. &n.]1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. Bacon. 2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. Garth. Poach Poach, v. i. To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon. Poach Poach, v. t. [Cf. OF. pocher to thrust or dig out with the fingers, to bruise (the eyes), F. pouce thumb, L. pollex, and also E. poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and poke to thrust against.] 1. To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish. [Obs.] Carew. 2. To force, drive, or plunge into anything. [Obs.] His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow ground. Sir W. Temple. 3. To make soft or muddy by trampling Tennyson. 4. To begin and not complete. [Obs.] Bacon. Poach Poach, v. i. To become soft or muddy.

Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach in winter. Mortimer.

Poachard

Poach"ard (?), n. [From Poach to stab.] [Written also pocard, pochard.] (Zoöl.) (a) A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, ∨ red-headed, widgeon. (b) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard. Red-crested poachard (Zoöl.), an Old World duck (Branta rufina). -- Scaup poachard, the scaup duck. -- Tufted poachard, a scaup duck (Aythya, ∨ Fuligula cristata), native of Europe and Asia.

Poacher

Poach"er (?), n.

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

2. (Zoöl.) The American widgeon. [Local, U.S.] Sea poacher (Zoöl.), the lyrie.

Poachiness

Poach"i*ness (?), n. The state of being poachy; marshiness.

Poachy

Poach"y (?), a. [See Poach to stab.] Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land

Poak, Poake

Poak, Poake (?), n. Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.
Pocan
Po"can (?), n. (Bot.) The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.
Pochard
Po"chard (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Poachard.
Pock
Pock (?), n. [OE. pokke, AS. pocc, poc; akin to D. pok, G. pocke, and perh. to E. poke a pocket. Cf. Pox.] (Med.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
Of pokkes and of scab every sore. Chaucer.

Pockarred
Pock"arred (?), a. See Pockmarked. [Obs.]
Pock-broken
Pock"-bro`ken (?), a. Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.
Pocket
Pock"et (?), n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch.]
1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. &hand; In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight.
4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
5. (Mining.) (a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. (b) A hole containing water.
6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
7. (Zoöl.) Same as Pouch. &hand; Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc. Out of pocket. See under Out, prep. -- Pocket borough, a borough owned" by some person. See under Borough. [Eng.] -- Pocket gopher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys, family Geomydæ. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also pouched gopher. -- Pocket mouse (Zoöl.), any species of American mice of the family Saccomyidæ. They have external cheek pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys), and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc. -- Pocket piece, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not spent. -- Pocket pistol, a pistol to be carried in the pocket. -- Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. Burrill. <-- deep pocket, ∨ deep pockets, wealth or substantial financial assets. Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be judged due to him. This contrasts with a "judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary damages would be worthless. -->
Pocket
Pock"et (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pocketing.]
1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
He would pocket the expense of the license. Sterne.

2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. Macaulay.
To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. -- To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. I must pocket up these wrongs." Shak.
Pocketbook
Pock"et*book` (?), n. A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
Pocketful
Pock"et*ful (?), n.; pl. Pocketfuls (). As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.
Pocketknife
Pock"et*knife` (?), n.; pl. -knives (). A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.
Pock-fretten
Pock"-fret`ten (?), a. See Pockmarked.
Pockiness
Pock"i*ness (?), n. The state of being pocky.
Pockmark
Pock"mark (?), n. A mark or pit made by smallpox.
Pockmarked
Pock"marked` (?), a. Marked by smallpox; pitted.
Pock-pitted
Pock"-pit`ted (?), a. Pockmarked; pitted.
Pock-pudding
Pock"-pud`ding (?), n. A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.
Pockwood
Pock"wood` (?), n. [So called because formerly used as a specific for the pock.] (Bot.) Lignum-vitæ.
Pocky
Pock"y (?), a. [Compar. Pockier (?); superl. Pockiest.] Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. Bp. Hall.
Poco
Po"co (?), adv. [It.] (Mus.) A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco pi\'97 allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow. Poco a poco [It.] (Mus.) Little by little; as, poco a poco crescendo, gradually increasing in loudness.
Pocock
Po"cock (?), n. Peacock. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pococurante
Po`co*cu*ran"te (?), n. [It. poco curante caring little.] A careless person; a trifler. [R.]
Pococurantism
Po`co*cu*ran"tism (?). n. Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [R.] Carlyle.
Pocoson
Po*co"son (?), n. Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia. [Written also poquoson.] Washington.
Poculent
Poc"u*lent (?), a. [L. poculentus, fr. poculum a cup.] Fit for drink. [Obs.] Some those herbs which are not esculent, are . . . poculent." Bacon.
Poculiform
Poc"u*li*form (?), a. [L. poculum a cup + -form: cf. F. poculiforme.] Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.
-pod
-pod (?). [See Foot.] 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
Pod (?), n. [Probably akin to pudding, and perhaps the same word as pad a cushion; cf. also Dan. pude pillow, cushion, and also E. cod a husk, pod.]
1. A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser.
2. (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
3. (Zoöl.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals. Pod auger, ∨ pod bit, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.
Pod
Pod, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Podded; p. pr. & vb. n. Podding.] To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
-poda
-po*da (?). A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. , , foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See -pod.
Podagra
Pod"a*gra (?), n. [L. See Podagric.] (Med.) Gout in the joints of the foot; -- applied also to gout in other parts of body.
Podagric, Podagrical
Po*dag"ric (?), Po*dag"ric*al (?), a. [L. podagricus, Gr. , fr. gout in the feet; , , Foot + a catching.]
1. Pertaining to the gout; gouty; caused by gout.
2. Afflicted with gout. Sir T. Browne.
Podagrous
Pod"a*grous (?), a. Gouty; podagric.
Podalgia
Po*dal"gi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. , , foot + pain.] (Med.) pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.
Podarthrum
Po*dar"thrum (?), n.; pl. Podarthra (#). [NL., fr. Gr. , , foot + joint.] (Anat.) The foot joint; in birds, the joint between the metatarsus and the toes.
Podded
Pod"ded (?), a. Having pods.
Podder
Pod"der (?), n. One who collects pods or pulse.
Podesta
Po*des"ta (?), n. [It. podestà, fr. L. potestas power, magistracy. See Potent.]
1. One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. Brande & C.
2. A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy.
Podetium
Po*de"ti*um (?), n.; pl. Podetia (#), E. Podetiums (#). [NL., fr. Gr. , , foot.] (Bot.) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.
Podge
Podge (?), n. [Cf. G. patsche puddle, mire.]
1. A puddle; a plash. Skinner.
2. Porridge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Podgy
Podg"y (?), a. Fat and short; pudgy.
Podical
Pod"i*cal (?) a. [L. podex, podicis, the anus.] (Zoöl.) Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.
Podiceps
Pod"i*ceps (?), n. [NL., fr. L. podex, podicis, anus + pes foot.] (Zoöl.) See Grebe.
Podium
Po"di*um (?), n.; pl. Podia (#). [L., fr. Gr. , dim. of , , foot. See Pew.]
1. (Arch.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by archæologists in two senses: (a) The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began. (b) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers. See Illust. of Column.
2. (Zoöl.) The foot.
Podley
Pod"ley (?), n. (Zoöl.) A young coalfish.
Podo-
Pod"o- (?). [See Foot.] A combining form or prefix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, podocarp, podocephalous, podology.
Podobranch
Pod"o*branch (?), n. [See Podo-, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.) One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
Podobranchia
Pod`o*bran"chi*a (?) n., pl. Podobranchle (#). [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Podobranch.
Podocarp
Pod"o*carp (?), n. [Podo- + Gr. fruit.] (Bot.) A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.
Podocephalous
Pod`o*ceph"a*lous (?), a. [Podo- + Gr. head.] (Bot.) Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.
Podogynium
Pod`o*gyn"i*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + woman.] (Bot.) Same as Basigynium
Podophthalmia
Pod`oph*thal"mi*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Podophthalmic.] (Zoöl.) 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, Podophthalmous
Pod`oph*thal"mic (?), Pod`oph*thal"mous (?), a. [Podo- + Gr. an eye.] (Zoöl.) (a) Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels. (b) Of or pertaining to the Podophthalmia.
Podophthalmite
Pod`oph*thal"mite (?), n. (Zoöl.) The eyestalk of a crustacean.
Podophyllin
Pod`o*phyl"lin (?), n. [From Podophyllum.] (Chem.) A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.
Podophyllous
Pod`o*phyl"lous (?), a.
1. (Zoöl.) Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.
2. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminæ, beneath a horse's hoof.
Podophyllum
Pod`o*phyl"lum (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + leaf.]
1. (Bot.) 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.
2. (Med.) The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.
Podoscaph
Pod"o*scaph (?), n. [Podo- + Gr. boat.] A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.
Podosperm
Pod"o*sperm (?), n. [Podo- + Gr. seed: cf. F. podosperme.] (Bot.) The stalk of a seed or ovule.
Podostomata
Pod`o*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + , , mouth.] (Zoöl.) An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.
Podotheca
Pod`o*the"ca (?), n.; pl. Podothecæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + case.] (Zoöl.) The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.
Podrida
Po*dri"da (?), n. [Sp., rotten.] A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.
Podura
Po*du"ra (?), n.; pl. L. Poduræ (#), E. Poduras (#). [NL.; Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + tail.] Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail.