Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Pookoo (n.) A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.

(1) - Pool (v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
(2) - Pool (v. t.) To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
(3) - Pool (n.) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
(4) - Pool (n.) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
(5) - Pool (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
(6) - Pool (n.) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
(7) - Pool (n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
(8) - Pool (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
(9) - Pool (n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
(10) - Pool (n.) A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
(11) - Pool (n.) A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.

(1) - Poop (v. t.) To strike in the stern, as by collision.
(2) - Poop (v. t.) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.
(3) - Poop (n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by such a deck. See Poop deck, under Deck. See also Roundhouse.
(4) - Poop (v. i.) To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
(5) - Poop (n.) See 2d Poppy.

(1) - Poor (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.
(2) - Poor (superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
(3) - Poor (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
(4) - Poor (superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
(5) - Poor (superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
(6) - Poor (superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
(7) - Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
(8) - Poor (superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
(9) - Poor (superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
(10) - Poor (superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
(11) - Poor (superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
(12) - Poor (superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
(13) - Poor (superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.