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v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Corresponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Corresponding. ] [ Pref. cor- + respond: cf. f. correspondre. ] 1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of them [ the forms of Sidney's sonnets ] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving letters; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

After having been long in indirect communication with the exiled family, he [ Atterbury ] began to correspond directly with the Pretender. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. correspondance. ] 1. Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The letters which pass between correspondents. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Correspondencies Same as Correspondence, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. correspondant. ] Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will be correspondent to command. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a a corresponding manner; conformably; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Answering; conformable; agreeing; suiting; as, corresponding numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Carrying on intercourse by letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a corresponding manner; conformably. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Despondency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The slough of despond. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Desponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Desponding. ] [ L. despondēre, desponsum, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de- + spondēre to promise solemnly. See Sponsor. ] To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. [ 1913 Webster ]

I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others depress their own minds, [ and ] despond at the first difficulty. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster.

Syn. -- Despond, Dispair. Despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case; yet despondency is often more lasting than despair, or than desperation, which impels to violent action. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Despondency. [ 1913 Webster ]

The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [ and ] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. despondens, -entis, p. pr. of despondēre. ] Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One who desponds. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a desponding manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incongruous. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Despond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dispondeus, Gr. &unr_;; di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; spondee. ] (Gr. &unr_; Lat. Pros.) A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Equi- + ponderance: cf. F. équipondérance. ] Equality of weight; equipoise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. équipondérant. ] Being of the same weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Equi- + L. ponderare to weigh. See Ponderate. ] To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. “More than equiponderated the declension in that direction.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + L. pondus, ponderis, weight. ] Having equal weight. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequipondium an equal weight; aequus equal + pondus weight. ] Of equal weight on both sides; balanced. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a freshwater pond with fish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A pond for watering horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. impondérabilité. ] The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + ponderable: cf. F. impondérable. ] Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being imponderable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imponderable. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. -- Im*pon"der*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

{ } n. Lack of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not corresponding; disagreeing. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'i`sos equal + &unr_;, &unr_;, a vertebra. ] (Zool.) An extensive order of fishes, including the salmons, herrings, and many allied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Isospondyli; having the anterior vertebræ separate and normal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A pond where fish are fed. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Too heavy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; plaited + &unr_;, &unr_;, a vertebra. ] (Zool.) An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebræ united and much modified; the Eventognathi. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Plectospondyli. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pond hen (Zool.), the American coot. See Coot (a). --
Pond lily (Bot.), the water lily. See under Water, and Illust. under Nymphæa. --
Pond snail (Zool.), 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 (Bot.), 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 (Zool.), any freshwater tortoise of the family Emydidæ. Numerous species are found in North America. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Ponder. ] To ponder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pondered p. pr. & vb. n. Pondering. ] [ L. ponderare, fr. pondus, ponderis, a weight, fr. pendere to weigh: cf. F. pondérer. See Pendant, and cf. Pound a weight. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To weigh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pondérabilité. ] The quality or state of being ponderable. [ 1913 Webster ]