Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POUND'ED, pp.

1. Beaten or bruised with a heavy instrument; pulverized or broken by pounding.
2. Confined in a pound; impounded.

POUND'ER, n.

1. A pestle; the instrument of pounding.
2. A person or thing denominated from a certain number of pounds; as, a cannon is called a twelve-pounder; a person of ten pounds annual income is called a ten pounder; a note or bill is called a ten-pounder. – Johnson.
3. A large pear. – Dryden.

POUND-FOOLISH, a. [Pound foolish.]

The phrase, penny wise and pound foolish, signifies negligent in the care of large sums, but careful to save small sums.

POUND'ING, ppr.

Beating; bruising; pulverizing; impounding.

POUND'-KEEP-ER, n.

One who has the care of a pound.

POUP'E-TON, n. [Fr. poupee.]

A puppet or little baby.

POU'PIES, n.

In cookery, a mess of victuals made of veal steaks and slices of bacon. – Bailey.

POUR, v.i.

1. To flow; to issue forth in a stream, or continued succession of parts; to move or rush, as a current. The torrent pours down from the mountain, or along the steep descent.
2. To rush in a crowd or continued procession. A ghastly band of giants, / All pouring down the mountain, crowd the shore. – Pope.

POUR, v.t. [W. bwrw, to cast, send, throw, thrust.]

1. To throw, as a fluid in a stream, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail, or out of a pail; to pour wine into a decanter. Pour is appropriately but not exclusively applied to fluids, and signifies merely to cast or throw, and this sense is modified by out, from, in, into, against, on, upon, under, &c. It is applied not only to liquors, but to other fluids, and to substances consisting of fine particles; as, to pour a stream of gas or air upon a fire; to pour out sand. It expresses particularly the bestowing or sending forth in copious abundance. I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. – Joel ii. To pour out dust. – Lev. xiv.
2. To emit; to send forth in a stream or continued succession. London doth pour out her citizens. – Shak.
3. To send forth; as, to pour out words, prayers or sighs; to pour out the heart or soul. – Ps. lxii.
4. To throw in profusion or with overwhelming force. I will shortly pour out my fury on thee. – Ezek vii.

POUR'ED, pp.

Sent forth; thrown; as a fluid.

POUR'ER, n.

One that pours.

POUR'ING, ppr.

Sending, as a fluid; driving in a current or continued stream.

POUR'LIEU, n. [See PURLIEU.]

POUR-PRES'TURE, n. [Fr. pour, for, and pris, taken.]

In law, a wrongful inclosure or encroachment on another's property. – Encyc. Cowel.

POUR-SUI'VANT, n. [See PURSUIVANT.]

POUR-VEY'ANCE, n. [See PURVEYANCE.]

POUSSE, n.

Corrupted from Pulse, peas. – Spenser.

POUT, n.

1. A fish of the genus Gadus, about an inch in length; the whiting pout. – Dict. Nat. Hist.
2. A bird. – Carew.
3. A fit of sullenness. [Colloquial.]

POUT, v.i. [Fr. bouder; allied probably to bud, pudding, Gr. βοτανη; W. poten; from the sense of bulging or pushing out.]

1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness, contempt or displeasure; hence, to look sullen. – Shak.
2. To shoot out; to be prominent; as, pouting lips. – Dryden.

POUT'ING, n.

Childish sullenness.

POUT'ING, ppr.

1. Shooting out, as the lips.
2. Looking sullen.

POUT'ING-LY, adv.

In a pouting, or sullen manner.

POV'ER-TY, n. [Norm. pouerti; Fr. pauvreté; It. povertà; Sp. and Port. pobreza; L. paupertas. See Poor.]

1. Destitution of property; indigence; want of convenient means of subsistence. The consequence of poverty is dependence. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. – Prov. xxiii.
2. Barrenness of sentiment or ornament; defect; as, the poverty of a composition.
3. Want; defect of words; as, the poverty of language.

POW'DER, n. [Fr. poudre, contracted from pouldre; Arm. poultra; It. polvere; Sp. polvo; L. pulvis. The G. has puder, and the D. poeder, but whether from the same source I know not. Pulvis is probably from pulso, pulto, to beat.]

1. Any dry substance composed of minute particles, whether natural or artificial; more generally, a substance comminuted or triturated to fine particles. Thus dust is the powder of earth; flour is the powder of grain. But the word is particularly applied to substances reduced to fine particles for medicinal purposes.
2. A composition of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, mixed and granulated; gunpowder.
3. Hair-powder; pulverized starch.

POW'DER, v.i.

To come violently. [Not used.] – L'Estrange.