Syn. -- Display; parade; pageant; pageantry; splendor; state;
magnificence; ostentation; grandeur; pride.
Pomp (?), v. i. To make a pompons display; to conduct. [Obs.] B.
Jonson.
Pom"pa*dour (?), n. A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut
low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by
drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called
after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used
adjectively.
Pom"pa*no (?), n. [Sp. p·mpano.] [Written also pampano.] (Zoˆl.) 1. Any
one of several species of marine fishes of the genus Trachynotus, of
which four species are found on the Atlantic coast of the United
States; -- called also palometa.
They have a brilliant silvery or golden luster, and are highly esteemed
as food fishes. The round pompano (T. thomboides) and the Carolina
pompano (T. Carolinus) are the most common. Other species occur on the
Pacific coast.
2. A California harvest fish (Stromateus simillimus), highly valued as
a food fish.
Pompano shell (Zoˆl.), a small bivalve shell of the genus Donax; -- so
called because eaten by the pompano. [Florida]
Pom*pat"ic (?), a. [L. pompaticus.] Pompous. [Obs.] Barrow.
Pom"pel*mous (?), n.; pl. Pompelmouses (#). [D. pompelmoes; cf. G.
pompelmuse, F. pamplemousse, and F. pompolÈon.] (Bot.) A shaddock, esp.
one of large size.
Pom"pet (?), n. [OF. pompette.] (Print.) The ball formerly used to ink
the type.
Pom"pho*lyx (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; a bubble, the slag on the surface
of smelted ore, from &?; a blister.] 1. (Old Chem.) Impure zinc oxide.
2. (Med.) A skin disease in which there is an eruption of bullÊ,
without inflammation or fever.
Pom*pil"lion (?), n. An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds.
[Obs.] Cotgrave.
Pom"pi*on (?), n. [OF. pompon. See Pumpkin.] See Pumpion.
Pom"pire (?), n. [L. pomum a fruit, LL. also, an apple + pirum a pear.]
A pearmain. [Obs.]
Pom*po"le*on (?), n. (Bot.) See Pompelmous.
Pom"pon (?), n. [F.] 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.
Pom*pos"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Pomposities (&?;). The quality or state of
being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.
||Pom*po"so (?), a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) Grand and dignified; in grand
||style.
Pomp"ous (?), a. [F. pompeux, L. 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, adv. -- Pomp"ous*ness, n.
Pomp"tine (?), a. See Pontine.
Pom"wa`ter (?), n. Same as Pomewater.
Pon"cho (?), n.; pl. Ponchos (&?;). [Sp.] 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.