Pom-pom noun [ Imitative.] A Vickers-Maxim one-pounder automatic machine cannon using metallic ammunition fed from a lopped belt attached to the gun; -- popularly so called from its peculiar drumming sound in action. Sometimes, any of other similar automatic cannons.

Pompon noun [ French]
1. Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.

2. (Mil.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.

Pompon noun (a) A hardy garden chrysanthemum having buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.

Pomposity noun ; plural Pomposities The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.

Pomposo adjective & adverb [ Italian ] (Mus.) Grand and dignified; in grand style.

Pompous adjective [ French pompeux , Latin pomposus . See Pomp .]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. " Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer.

he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.

Thackeray.

-- Pom"ous*ly , adverb -- Pomp"ous*ness , noun

Pomptine adjective See Pontine .

Pomwater noun Same as Pomewater .

Poncelet noun [ After Jean Victor Poncelet , French engineer.] (Physics) A unit of power, being the power obtained from an expenditure of one hundred kilogram-meters of energy per second. One poncelet equals g watts, when g is the value of the acceleration of gravity in centimeters.

Poncho noun ; plural Ponchos [ Spanish ]
1. A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.

2. A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.

Pond noun [ Probably originally, an inclosed body of water, and the same word as pound . See Pound an inclosure.] A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake. "Through pond or pool." Milton.

Pond hen (Zoology) , the American coot. See Coot (a) . -- Pond lily (Botany) , the water lily. See under Water , and Illust. under Nymphæa . -- Pond snail (Zoology) , any gastropod living in fresh-water ponds or lakes. The most common kinds are air- breathing snails ( Pulmonifera ) belonging to Limnæa, Physa, Planorbis, and allied genera. The operculated species are pectinibranchs, belonging to Melantho , Valvata , and various other genera. -- Pond spice (Botany) , an American shrub ( Tetranthera geniculata ) of the Laurel family, with small oval leaves, and axillary clusters of little yellow flowers. The whole plant is spicy. It grows in ponds and swamps from Virginia to Florida. -- Pond tortoise , Pond turtle (Zoology) , any freshwater tortoise of the family Emydidæ . Numerous species are found in North America.

Pond transitive verb To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

Pond transitive verb [ See Ponder .] To ponder. [ Obsolete]

Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

Spenser.

Ponder transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Pondered ; present participle & verbal noun Pondering .] [ Latin ponderare , from pondus , ponderis , a weight, from pendere to weigh: confer French pondérer . See Pendant , and confer Pound a weight.]

1. To weigh. [ Obsolete]

2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.

Ponder the path of thy feet.

Prov. iv. 26.

Syn. -- To Ponder , Consider , Muse . To consider means to view or contemplate with fixed thought. To ponder is to dwell upon with long and anxious attention, with a view to some practical result or decision. To muse is simply to think upon continuously with no definite object, or for the pleasure it gives. We consider any subject which is fairly brought before us; we ponder a concern involving great interests; we muse on the events of childhood.

Ponder intransitive verb To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over . Longfellow.

Ponderability noun [ Confer French pondérabilité .] The quality or state of being ponderable.

Ponderable adjective [ Latin ponderabilis : confer French pondérable .] Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon"der*a*ble*ness , noun

Ponderal adjective [ Confer French pondéral .] Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral ; as, a ponderal drachma. [ R.] Arbuthnot.

Ponderance noun [ Latin ponderans , present participle of ponderare to weigh: confer Old French ponderant of weight.] Weight; gravity. [ R.] Gregory.

Ponderary adjective Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. [ R.] M'Culloch.

Ponderate transitive verb [ Latin ponderatus , past participle of ponderare . See Ponder .] To consider; to ponder. [ R.]

Ponderate intransitive verb To have weight or influence. [ R.]

Ponderation noun [ Latin ponderatio : confer French pondération .] The act of weighing. [ R.] Arbuthnot.

Ponderer noun One who ponders.

Pondering adjective Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly , adverb

Ponderosity noun ; plural Ponderosities . [ Old French ponderosité .] The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray.

Ponderous adjective [ Latin ponderosus , from pondus , -eris , a weight: confer French pondéreux . See Ponder .]
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant.

The sepulcher . . .
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws.

Shak.

2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak.

3. Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke.

Ponderous spar (Min.) , heavy spar, or barytes. See Barite .

Ponderously adverb In a ponderous manner.

Ponderousness noun The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

Pondfish noun (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidæ ; -- called also pond perch , and sunfish .

» The common pondfish of New England ( Lepomis gibbosus ) is called also bream , pumpkin seed , and sunny . See Sunfish . The long-eared pondfish ( Lepomis auritus ) of the Eastern United States is distinguished by its very long opercular flap.

Pondweed noun (Botany) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton , of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers.

Choke pondweed , an American water weed ( Anarcharis, or Elodea, Canadensis .) See Anacharis . -- Horned pondweed , the Zannichellia palustris , a slender, branching aquatic plant, having pointed nutlets.

Pone (pōn) noun [ Of Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of johnnycake. [ Written also paune .] [ Southern U. S.]

Pone (pō"nē) noun [ Latin pone , imper. of ponere to place.]
1. (a) An original writ, now superseded by the writ of certiorari, for removing a case from an inferior court into the Court of Exchequer. (b) An obsolete writ to enforce appearance in court by attaching goods or requiring securities.

2. ( pron. pōn) (Card Playing) The player who cuts the cards, being usually the player on the dealer's right.

Ponent adjective [ Old French , from Italian ponente , properly, setting (applied to the setting sun), from Latin ponens , present participle of ponere to set, put.] Western; occidental. [ R.]

Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds.

Milton.

Pongee noun [ Of East Indian origin.] A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.

Ponghee noun [ From the native name.] A Buddhist priest of the higher orders in Burmah. Malcom.

Pongo noun (Zoology) Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang- outang.

Poniard noun [ French poignard (cf. Italian pugnale , Spanish puñal ), from Latin pugio , -onis ; probably akin to pugnus fist, or from pugnus fist, as held in the fist. See Pugnacious .] A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade.

She speaks poniards , and every word stabs.

Shak.

Poniard transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Poniarded ; present participle & verbal noun Poniarding .] To pierce with a poniard; to stab. Cowper.

Ponibility noun [ Latin ponere to place.] The capability of being placed or located. [ Obsolete] Barrow.

Pons noun ; plural Pontes . [ Latin , a bridge.] (Anat.) A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii , a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain .