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
n. A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See
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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 ]