Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Poultry (n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

(1) - Pounce (v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
(2) - Pounce (v. t.) To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.
(3) - Pounce (v. t.) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
(4) - Pounce (v. t.) Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
(5) - Pounce (v. t.) A punch or stamp.
(6) - Pounce (v. t.) The claw or talon of a bird of prey.
(7) - Pounce (v. t.) To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
(8) - Pounce (n.) Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
(9) - Pounce (n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.

(1) - Pound (n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.
(2) - Pound (n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
(3) - Pound (pl. ) of Pound
(4) - Pound (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
(5) - Pound (n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
(6) - Pound (n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.
(7) - Pound (n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.
(8) - Pound (v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
(9) - Pound (v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.
(10) - Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
(11) - Pound (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

(1) - Poundage (n.) A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
(2) - Poundage (n.) Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
(3) - Poundage (v. t.) To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
(4) - Poundage (n.) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound.
(5) - Poundage (n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.
(6) - Poundage (n.) A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

(1) - Poundal (n.) A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.