Chapter Pompous to Pool of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Choke pondweed

, an American water weed (Anarcharis, or Elodea, Canadensis.) See Anacharis. — Horned pondweed, the Zannichellia palustris, a slender, branching aquatic plant, having pointed nutlets.

Pone
(Pone) n. [Of Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of johnnycake. [Written also paune.] [Southern U. S.]

Ponent
(Po"nent) a. [OF., fr. It. ponente, properly, setting fr. L. ponens, p. pr. of ponere to set, put.] Western; occidental. [R.]

Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.

Milton.

Pongee
(Pon*gee") n. [Of East Indian origin.] A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.

Ponghee
(Pon*ghee") n. [From the native name.] A Buddhist priest of the higher orders in Burmah. Malcom.

Pongo
(Pon"go) n. (Zoöl.) Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang- outang.

Poniard
(Pon"iard) n. [F. poignard fr. L. pugio, -onis; probably akin to pugnus fist, or fr. pugnus fist, as held in the fist. See Pugnacious.] A kind of dagger, — usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Shak.

Poniard
(Pon"iard), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poniarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Poniarding.] To pierce with a poniard; to stab. Cowper.

Ponibility
(Po`ni*bil"i*ty) n. [L. ponere to place.] The capability of being placed or located. [Obs.] Barrow.

Pons
(||Pons) n.; pl. Pontes [L., a bridge.] (Anat.) A bridge; — applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain.

||Pons asinorum. [L., literally, bridge of asses.] See Asses' bridge, under Ass.

Pontage
(Pon"tage) n. [LL. pontagium, from L. pons, pontis, a bridge: cf. F. pontage.] (O. Eng. Law) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges. Ayliffe.

Pontee
(Pon*tee") n. [F. pontil, pontis.] (Glass Making) An iron rod used by glass makers for manipulating the hot glass; — called also, puntil, puntel, punty, and ponty. See Fascet.

Pontic
(Pon"tic) a. [L. Ponticus, Gr. fr. the sea, especially, the Black Sea.] Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea.

Pontifex
(||Pon"ti*fex) n.; pl. Pontifices [L.] A high priest; a pontiff.

Pontiff
(Pon"tiff) n. [F. pontife, L. pontifex, -ficis; pons, pontis, a bridge (perhaps originally, a way, path) + facere to make. Cf. Pontoon.] A high priest. Especially: (a) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus. Dr. W. Smith. (b) (Jewish Antiq.) The chief priest. (c) (R. C. Ch.) The pope.

Pontific
(Pon*tif"ic) a. [Cf. L. pontificius.]