Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POME-GRAN'ATE-TREE, n.

The tree which produces pomegranates.

POME'ROY, or POME-ROY'AL, n.

Royal apple; a particular sort of apple. – Ainsworth.

POME-WA'TER, n.

A sort of apple. – Shak.

POM'EY, n. [in heraldry, a green roundel. – E.H.B.]

PO-MIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. pomum, an apple, and fero, to produce.]

Apple-bearing; an epithet applied to plants which bear the larger fruits, such as melons, gourds, pumpkins, cucumbers, &c. in distinction from the bacciferous berry-bearing, plants. – Ray. Arbuthnot.

POMME, or POM'METTE, n.

In heraldry, [never occur alone, but only in union with cross; as, a cross pomme, a cross of which the ends terminate in three half circlets resembling apples. There are several crosses of various forms, as, the cross moline, the cross patonce. – E. H. B.]

POM'MEL, n. [Fr. pommeau; It. pomo, an apple; pomo della spada, the pommel of a hilt; Sp. pomo, L. pomum, an apple, or a similar fruit; W. pwmp, a round mass or lump.]

1. A knob or ball. – 2 Chron. iv.
2. The knob on the hilt of a sword; the protuberant part of a saddle-bow; the round knob on the frame of a chair, &c.

POM'MEL, v.t. [from the noun.]

To beat as with a pommel, that is, with something thick or bulky; to bruise. [The French se pommeler, to grow dapple, to curdle, is from the same source; but the sense is to make knobs or lumps, and hence to variegate, or make spots like knobs. The Welsh have from the same root, or pwmp, a mass, pwmpiaw, to form a round mass, and to thump, to bang, Eng. to bump.]

POM'MEL-ED, pp.

1. Beaten; bruised.
2. In heraldry, having pommels; as a sword or dagger.

POM'MEL-ING, ppr.

Beating.

POM-MEL-ION, n. [from pommel.]

The cascabel or hind-most knob of a cannon. Mar. Dict.

POMP, n. [L. pompa; Fr. pompe; Arm. pomp; pompadi, to boast; It. and Sp. pompa; Sw. pomp; D. pomp, a pump, and pompoen, a gourd, a pumpkin; G. pomp, show, and pumpe, a pump. These words appear to be all of one family, coinciding with L. bombus, Sp. bomba, Eng. bomb, bombast. The radical sense is to swell or dilate; Gr. πομπη, πομπεια, πομπευω.]

1. A procession distinguished by ostentation of grandeur and splendor; as, the pomp of a Roman triumph.
2. Show of magnificence; parade; splendor. Hearts formed for love, but doom'd in vain to glow / In prison'd pomp, and weep in splendid woe. – D. Humphreys.

POMP-AT'IC, a. [Low L. pompaticus, pompatus.]

Pompous; splendid; ostentatious. [Not in use.] Barrow.

POMP'ET, n.

The ball which printers use to black the types. – Cotgrave.

POM'PHO-LYX, n. [L. from Gr. πομφολυξ; πομφος, a tumor; πεμφιξ, a blast, a puff, a bubble, a pustule. See Pomp.]

The white oxyd which sublimes during the combustion of zink; called flowers of zink. It rises and adheres to the dome of the furnace and the covers of the crucibles. – Hill. Nicholson. Ure.

POMP'I-ON, n. [D. pompoen; a pumpkin, a gourd; Sw. pumpa. See Pomp and Pomace.]

A pumpkin; a plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita.

POM'PIRE, n. [L. pomum, apple, and pyrus, pear.]

A sort of pearmain. – Ainsworth.

POM-POS'I-TY, n. [It. pomposità.]

Pompousness; ostentation; boasting. – Aikin.

POMPOSO, adv. [Pomposo.]

In music, grand and dignified.

POMP'OUS, a. [Fr. pompeux; It. pomposo.]

1. Displaying pomp; showy with grandeur; splendid; magnificent; as, a pompous procession; a pompous triumph.
2. Ostentatious; boastful; as, a pompous account of private adventures.

POMP'OUS-LY, adv.

With great parade or display; magnificently; splendidly; ostentatiously. – Dryden.

POMP'OUS-NESS, n.

The state of being pompous; magnificence; splendor; great display of show; ostentatiousness. – Addison.

POM'-WA-TER, n.

The name of a large apple. – Dict.

POND, n. [Sp. Port. and It. pantano, a pool of stagnant water, also in Sp. hinderance, obstacle, difficulty. The name imports standing water, from setting or confining. It may be allied to L. pono; Sax. pyndan, to pound, to pen, to restrain, and L. pontus, the sea, may be of the same family.]

1. A body of stagnant water without an outlet, larger than a puddle, and smaller than a lake; or a like body of water with a small outlet. In the United States, we give this name to collections of water in the interior country, which are fed by springs, and from which issues a small stream. These ponds are often a mile or two or even more in length, and the current issuing from them is used to drive the wheels of mills and furnaces.
2. A collection of water raised in a river by a dam, for the purpose of propelling mill-wheels. These artificial ponds are called mill-ponds. Pond for fish. [See Fish-pond.]

POND, v.t.¹ [from the noun.]

To make a pond; to collect in a pond by stopping the current of a river.