Pounce, n. Claw, talon.
Pounce upon. Seize (as with claws), fall upon.
Pound, v. a.
- 1. Beat, strike.
- 2. Bray, bruise, crush, pulverize, triturate, comminute, levigate.
- 3. Impound, confine in a pound, coop, enclose, shut up.
Pour, v. a.
- 1. Let flow (by decanting).
- 2. Emit, let out, give vent to, send forth.
Pour, v. n. Flow, issue, stream.
Pourboire, n. Drink-money, trinkgeld.
Pout, n.
- 1. Whiting-pout, bib-pout (Morrhua lusca).
- 2. Catfish, horn-pout, horned-pout, bull-head (Pimelodus cattus).
- 3. Fit of sullenness, sulk.
Pout, v. n. Look sullen (by protruding the lips), look black, show ill-temper.
Pouting, a. Sulky, sullen, ill-humored.
Poverty, n.
- 1. Indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, neediness, distress, straitened circumstances.
- 2. Beggary, mendicancy, pauperism.
- 3. Need, lack, want, deficiency, scantiness, sparingness, meagreness, jejuneness.
- 4. Paucity, exiguity, poorness, smallness.