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n. pl. [ F. crampon, fr. OHG. chramph crooked; akin to G. krampf cramp. See Cramp, n., and cf. Crampon. ] 1. A clutch formed of hooked pieces of iron, like double calipers, for raising stones, lumber, blocks of ice, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Iron instruments with sharp points, worn on the shoes to assist in gaining or keeping a foothold. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. 'epi` upon + &unr_; egg + fe`rein to bear. ] (Anat.) See Parovarium.

n. [ F. harpon, LL. harpo, perh. of Ger. origin, fr. the harp; cf. F. harper to take and grasp strongly, harpe a dog's claw, harpin boathook (the sense of hook coming from the shape of the harp); but cf. also Gr. "a`rph the kite, sickle, and E. harpy. Cf. Harp.] A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, flat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun. [1913 Webster]

Harpoon fork, a kind of hayfork, consisting of a bar with hinged barbs at one end and a loop for a rope at the other end, used for lifting hay from the load by horse power. --
Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Harpooned p. pr. & vb. n. Harpooning. ] To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An harpooner. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. harponneur. ] One who throws the harpoon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A part of the breastbone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He feeleth through the herte-spon the pricke. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ So called from its cry; cf. L. upupa, Gr. &unr_;, D. hop, F. huppe; cf. also G. wiedenhopf, OHG. wituhopfo, lit., wood hopper. ] (Zool.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (Upupa epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

‖n. (Zool.) The eland. [ Written also impoofoo. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) The duykerbok. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To impoverish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. pl.; sing. Kickapoo /sing>. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians which formerly occupied the region of Northern Illinois, allied in language to the Sacs and Foxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lampon a drinking song, fr. lampons let us drink, -- the burden of such a song, fr. lamper to guzzle, to drink much and greedily; of German origin, and akin to E. lap to drink. Prob. so called because drinking songs often contain personal slander or satire. ] 1. A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like her who missed her name in a lampoon,
And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Any satire ridiculing or mocking a person, activity, or institution by representing its character or behavior in an exaggerated or grotesque form; the representation may be written, filmed, or performed as a live skit, and may be intended as a severe reproach, or as good-natured humor. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lampooned p. pr. & vb. n. Lampooning. ] To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in a work of art; to make (a person, behavior, or institution) the subject of a lampoon. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To libel; defame; satirize; lash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The writer of a lampoon. “Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. liripipion, liripion, LL. liripipium. Said to be corrupted from L. cleri ephippium, lit., the clergy's caparison. ] 1. A pendent part of the old clerical tippet; afterwards, a tippet; a scarf; -- worn also by doctors, learned men, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem. [ Obs. ] Stanihurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A silly person. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard. Milles. MS. Devon Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of non compos. ] A fool; a silly or stupid person. [ Law ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tall herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides) of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally; the Cohosh. See also Cohosh.
Syn. -- blue cohosh, blueberry root, papoose root, squawroot, squaw root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Papoose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excrement; feces; -- informal baby talk sometimes used as a euphemism. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. A dog. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

v. i. To round one's lips as if intending to kiss.
Syn. -- pooch out. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Russ. pud'. ] A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. pudel. ] (Zool.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Of. imitative origin; cf. Icel. pū. ] Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh! [ Colloq. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ From the native name. ] (Zool.) A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. pōl; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll. ] 1. 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. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. “The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. poule, properly, a hen. See Pullet. ] [ Written also poule. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets. [ 1913 Webster ]

He plays pool at the billiard houses. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pin pool, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. --
Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. --
Pool snipe (Zool.), the European redshank. [ Prov. Eng. ] --
Pool table, a billiard table with pockets. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pooled p. pr. & vb. n. Pooling. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. U. S. Grant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stick for stirring a tan vat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Canarese ponne. ] A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, Calophyllum inophullum, and Sterculia fœtida; -- called also peon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Poona, in Bombay Province, India. ] A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence:
Poonah brush,
paper,
painter, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) See 2d Poppy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Pooped p. pr. & vb. n. Pooping. ] [ Cf. D. poepen. See Pop. ] To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. poupe; cf. Sp. & Pg. popa, It. poppa; all fr. L. puppis. ] (Naut.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The poop was beaten gold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Naut.) (a) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave. “A sea which he thought was going to poop her.” Lord Dufferin. (b) To strike in the stern, as by collision. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. (Naut.) 1. Having a poop; furnished with a poop. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Struck on the poop. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tired; exhausted; fatigued. [ PJC ]

n. (Naut.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Poorer superl. Poorest. ] [ OE. poure or povre, OF. povre, F. pauvre, L. pauper; the first syllable of which is probably akin to paucus few (see Paucity, Few), and the second to parare to prepare, procure. See Few, and cf. Parade, Pauper, Poverty. ] 1. Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is often synonymous with indigent and with necessitous denoting extreme want. It is also applied to persons who are not entirely destitute of property, but who are not rich; as, a poor man or woman; poor people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, in very various applications: Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected; as: (a) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. “Seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed.” Gen. xli. 19. (b) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits. “His genius . . . poor and cowardly.” Bacon. (c) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. “A poor vessel.” Clarendon. (d) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil. (e) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture. (f) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night. (g) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day. Calamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And for mine own poor part,
Look you, I'll go pray. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” Matt. v. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Poor law, a law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor. --
Poor man's treacle (Bot.), garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison. [ Eng ] Dr. Prior. --
Poor man's weatherglass (Bot.), the red-flowered pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather. --
Poor rate, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor. --
Poor soldier (Zool.), the friar bird. --
The poor, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public. “I have observed the more public provisions are made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves.” Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]