Pout, n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's
in the pouts." J. & H. Smith.
Pout, n. [Cf. Eelpout.] (Zoˆl.) The European whiting pout or bib.
Eel pout. (Zoˆl.) See Eelpout. -- Horn pout, or Horned pout. (Zoˆl.)
See Bullhead (b).
Pout"er (-r), n. 1. One who, or that which, pouts.
2. [Cf. E. pout, and G. puter turkey.] (Zoˆl.) A variety of the
domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate
its throat and breast.
Pout"ing, n. Childish sullenness.
Pout"ing*ly, adv. In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.
Pov"ert (pv"rt), n. Poverty. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pov"er*ty (pv"r*t), n. [OE. poverte, OF. povertÈ, F. pauvretÈ, fr. L.
paupertas, fr. pauper poor. See Poor.] 1. The quality or state of being
poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence;
need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble.
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
Prov. xxiii. 21.
2. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired,
or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood;
poverty of ideas.
Poverty grass (Bot.), a name given to several slender grasses (as
Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old
and worn-out fields.
Syn. -- Indigence; penury; beggary; need; lack; want; scantiness;
sparingness; meagerness; jejuneness. Poverty, Indigence, Pauperism.
Poverty is a relative term; what is poverty to a monarch, would be
competence for a day laborer. Indigence implies extreme distress, and
almost absolute destitution. Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon
public charity, and, therefore, often a hopeless and degraded state.
{ Pow"an (?), Pow"en (?) }, n. (Zoˆl.) A small British lake whitefish
(Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake
herring.
Pow"der (?), n. [OE. poudre, pouldre, F. poudre, OF. also poldre,
puldre, L. pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour, mill dust, E.
pollen. Cf. Polverine, Pulverize.] 1. The fine particles to which any
dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into
which it falls by decay; dust.
Grind their bones to powder small.
Shak.
2. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See
Gunpowder.
Atlas powder, Baking powder, etc. See under Atlas, Baking, etc. --
Powder down (Zoˆl.), the peculiar dust, or exfoliation, of powder-down
feathers. -- Powder- down feather (Zoˆl.), one of a peculiar kind of
modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain parts of some
birds. They have a greasy texture and a scaly exfoliation. - -
Powder-down patch (Zoˆl.), a tuft or patch of powder-down feathers. --
Powder hose, a tube of strong linen, about an inch in diameter, filled
with powder and used in firing mines. Farrow. -- Powder hoy (Naut.), a
vessel specially fitted to carry powder for the supply of war ships.
They are usually painted red and carry a red flag. -- Powder magazine,
or Powder room. See Magazine, 2. -- Powder mine, a mine exploded by
gunpowder. See Mine. -- Powder monkey (Naut.), a boy formerly employed
on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy. -- Powder post. See Dry
rot, under Dry. -- Powder puff. See Puff, n.
Pow"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Powdered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Powdering.]
[F. poudrer.] 1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub
into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
2. To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to
powder the hair.
A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars.
Milton.