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P — Porpoise to Practical (Part 10 of 12)

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.