Pourpoint
(Pour"point) n. [F.] A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also,
a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
Pourpresture
(Pour*pres"ture) n. (Law) See Purpresture.
Poursuivant
(Pour"sui*vant) n. See Pursuivant.
Pourtray
(Pour*tray") v. t. See Portray.
Pourveyance
(Pour*vey"ance) n. See Purveyance.
Pousse
(Pousse) n. Pulse; pease. [Obs.] Spenser.
Poussette
(Pous*sette") n. [F., pushpin, fr. pousser to push. See Push.] A movement, or part of a
figure, in the contradance. Dickens.
Poussette
(Pous*sette"), v. i. To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] Tennyson.
Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross.
J. & H. Smith. Pout
(Pout) n. [F. poulet. See Poult.] The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. Carew.
Pout
(Pout) v. i. To shoot pouts. [Scot.]
Pout
(Pout) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouting.] [OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf.
Prov. pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch,
belly.]
1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love.
Shak. 2. To protrude. "Pouting lips." Dryden.
Pout
(Pout), n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's in the pouts." J. & H. Smith.
Pout
(Pout), n. [Cf. Eelpout.] (Zoöl.) The European whiting pout or bib.
Eel pout. (Zoöl.) See Eelpout. — Horn pout, or Horned pout. (Zoöl.) See Bullhead (b).
