Pompous to Pool
Pompous
(Pomp"ous) a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See Pomp.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in
high presumption." Chaucer.
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
Thackeray. — Pom"ous*ly, adv. — Pomp"ous*ness, n.
Pomptine
(Pomp"tine) a. See Pontine.
Pomwater
(Pom"wa`ter) n. Same as Pomewater.
Poncho
(Pon"cho) n.; pl. Ponchos [Sp.]
1. A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle
for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted
troops in the United States service.
2. A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.
Pond
(Pond) n. [Probably originally, an inclosed body of water, and the same word as pound. See
Pound an inclosure.] A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than
a lake. "Through pond or pool." Milton.
Pond hen (Zoöl.), the American coot. See Coot (a). — Pond lily (Bot.), the water lily. See under
Water, and Illust. under Nymphæa. — Pond snail (Zoöl.), any gastropod living in fresh-water ponds
or lakes. The most common kinds are air- breathing snails (Pulmonifera) belonging to Limnæa, Physa,
Planorbis, and allied genera. The operculated species are pectinibranchs, belonging to Melantho, Valvata,
and various other genera. — Pond spice (Bot.), an American shrub (Tetranthera geniculata) of the
Laurel family, with small oval leaves, and axillary clusters of little yellow flowers. The whole plant is spicy.
It grows in ponds and swamps from Virginia to Florida. — Pond tortoise, Pond turtle (Zoöl.), any
freshwater tortoise of the family Emydidæ. Numerous species are found in North America.
Pond
(Pond) v. t. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
Pond
(Pond), v. t. [See Ponder.] To ponder. [Obs.]
Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.
Spenser. Ponder
(Pon"der) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pondered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pondering.] [L. ponderare, fr. pondus,
ponderis, a weight, fr. pendere to weigh: cf. F. pondérer. See Pendant, and cf. Pound a weight.]
1. To weigh. [Obs.]
2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.
Ponder the path of thy feet.
Prov. iv. 26. Syn. — To Ponder, Consider, Muse. To consider means to view or contemplate with fixed thought.
To ponder is to dwell upon with long and anxious attention, with a view to some practical result or decision.
To muse is simply to think upon continuously with no definite object, or for the pleasure it gives. We
consider any subject which is fairly brought before us; we ponder a concern involving great interests; we
muse on the events of childhood.
