Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POCK'ET-ED, pp.

Put or concealed in the pocket.

POCK'ET-GLASS, n.

A portable looking-glass.

POCK'ET-HOLE, n.

The opening into a pocket.

POCK'ET-ING, ppr.

Putting in the pocket.

POCK'ET-LID, n.

The flap over the pocket-hole.

POCK'ET-MON-EY, n.

Money for the pocket or for occasional expenses.

POCK'-HOLE, n.

The pit or scar made by a pock.

POCK'I-NESS, n.

The state of being pocky.

POCK'MARK, n.

Mark or scar made by the small pox.

POCK'WOOD, n.

Guaiacum officinale or lignum vitæ, a very hard wood.

POCK'Y, a. [from pock.]

1. Infected with the small pocks; full of pocks.
2. Vile; rascally; mischievous; contemptible. [In vulgar use.]

POCO, adv. [Poco.]

In music, little.

POC'U-LENT, a. [L. poculentus, from poculum, a cup.]

Fit for drink. [Not used.]

POD, n. [In W. podi signifies to take in or comprehend; but I know not from what source we have this word.]

A vague term applied to a considerable number of different specific pericarps or seed-vessels of plants, such as the legume, the loment, the silique, the silicle, the follicle, the conceptacle, and even the capsule, &c.

POD, v.i.

To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

PO-DAG'RIC, or PO-DAG'RIC-AL, a. [L. podagra; Gr. ποδαγρα; πους, the foot, and αγρα, a seizure.]

1. Pertaining to the gout; gouty; partaking of the gout.
2. Afflicted with the gout. – Brown.

POD'DED, a.

Having its pods formed; furnished with pods.

POD'DER, n.

A gatherer of pods.

PO-DES-TA', n.

One of the chief magistrates of Genoa and Venice.

PODGE, n.

A puddle; a plash. – Skinner.

PO'DI-UM, n. [L.]

In architecture, a balcony or open gallery. – Elmes.

PO-DO-GYN'I-UM, n.

The same as basigynium.

PO'DO-SPERM, n. [Gr. πους and σπερμα.]

In botany, the umbilical cord of an ovule; a little thread connecting an ovule with its placenta. – Lindley.

POD-RI'DA, n. [Sp.]

Olla podrida, a miscellaneous dish of meats.

PO'EM, n. [L. poema; Gr. ποιημα, from ποιεω, to make, to compose songs. In Russ. poyu signifies to sing. The radical sense is the same, to strain.]

1. A metrical composition; a composition in which the verses consist of certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton: opposed to prose. – Dryden.
2. This term is also applied to some compositions in which the language is that of excited imagination; as, the poems of Ossian.