pocket-drop 
pocket-drop (pok'et-drop), n. Theat., a drop- 
scene made to be doubled up so as to be taken 
out of right, where the roof above the stage is 
low. 
pocket-edition (pok'et-e-dish'on), . A book 
issiu-il in a small size, as for convenience in 
parrying in the pocket. 
pocket-flap (pok'et-flap), n. A narrow piece of 
cloth sewed above the opening of a pocket in a 
garment, and hangingover it likoasmall flounce. 
pocketful (pok'et-ful), n. [< pocket + -ful.] 
Enough to fill a pocket ; as much as a pocket 
will hold. 
pocket-gopher (pok'et-go'fer), n. An Ameri- 
can rodent quadruped of the family (!eomi/idx: 
so called from the large pockets or external 
cheek-pouches. Also pocket-rat. See cut un- 
der (ieomyulte. 
pocket-hammer (ppk'et-ham'er), n. A hammer 
adapted for carrying in the pocket; a geolo- 
gists' hammer. 
pocket-handkerchief (pok'et-hang'ker-chif), 
n. A handkerchief intended to be carried in 
the pocket. 
pocketing-sleevet (pok'et-ing-slev), n. A large 
and loose sleeve worn in the fourteenth and 
fifteenth centuries. 
Of the lone pockeUing-ilecoes in the time of King Henry 
t In- fuurth, llun-livr, a muter of that age, sung. 
Ciniiili'ii, Remain*, Apparcll. 
pocket-judgment (pok'et-juj'inent), n. For- 
merly, in England, a recognizance given to se- 
cure a private debt, as distinguished from a 
recognizance taken as a public obligation. The 
Statute of Merchants, 13 Edward I., stat. 8, authorized re- 
cognizances to be taken for the securing of debts in certain 
cases, and allowed enforcement against property without 
the formality of a suit. A recognizance so taken was tech- 
nically termed a statute merchant, and this, too, has been 
called a pockrt-judgmenl. 
pocket-knife (pok'et-nlf). n. A knife with one 
or more blades which fold into the handle, suit- 
able for carrying in the pocket; loosely, a pen- 
knife. 
pocket-lid (pok'et-lid), n. A pocket-flap. 
pocket-money (pok'et-mnn'i), n. Money for 
the pocket or for occasional or trivial expenses. 
pocket-mouse (pok'et-mous), n. An American 
rodent quadruped of the family Saccomyidu' : 
so called from its pockets or external cneek- 
pouches. Various species arc found in the United 
States, belonging to the genera Dipndomys and Perogna- 
'/"'.--. The larger kinds, which leap well, are also known 
as kangaroo-mice and kangaroo-ratt. See cut* under Dipo- 
rfomi/8 and PerogtMthws, 
pocket-net (pok'et-net), n. A fishing-net in 
which the fish are caught in certain special 
compartments or pockets. 
pocket-piece (pok'et-pes), N. A coin kept in 
the pocket and uot spent, generally a coin that 
is not current. 
pocket-pistol (pok'et-pis'tol), . 1. A pistol 
designed to be carried in the pocket. 2. A 
small liquor-flask, arranged with a screw-stop- 
per, or in other ways safely closed, and often 
fitted with a cup; a small traveling -flask. 
[Slang.] 
He ... swigged his pocket-pistol. 
Naylor, Reynard the Fox, p. 42. (Davits.) 
pocket-rat (pok'et-rat), . Same as pocket- 
yl>her. 
pocket-relay (pok'et-re-la'), n. An instrument 
which can be carried in' the pocket to make tele- 
graphic connection at any point on a line. It 
is employed in case of accidents, etc., and hence 
is often called a irrecking-itistrumcnt. 
pocket-sheriff (pok'et-sher'if), n. A sheriff 
appointed by the sole authority of the sover- 
eign, and not one of the three nominated by 
the exchequer. [Eng.] 
pockety (pok'et-i), a. [< pocket + -yi.] In 
mining, noting a lode in which the ore occurs in 
pockets, or small irregular bunches, instead of 
being somewhat uniformly distributed through 
the mass of the veinstone. 
pock-frettent (pok'fret'n), a. Pock-marked; 
marked with smallpox ; pitted with smallpox. 
Rirhardson, Clarissa Harlowe, VI. 137. 
pock-house (pok'hous), N. A smallpox hospital. 
[Prov. U. 8.] 
A Pock llwutt was established, . . . and a general beat- 
ing up for patients was had throughout the region. 
S. Judd, Margaret, II. 5. 
pockiness (pok'i-ues), n. The state of being 
pocky. 
pqckmanky, pockmanty (pok-mang'ki, -mau'- 
ti), H. (Scotch corruptions of i>nrttanlcati. 
pock-mark (pok'mark), H. A mark or scar made 
by the smallpox; a pock. 
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pock-marked (pok'miirkt), a. Pitted or marked 
with smallpox, or with pits resembling those of 
smallpox ; pock-pitted. 
pock-pitted (pok/pit'ed), a. Pitted or marked 
with smallpox. 
pock-pitten (pok'pit'n), a. Same as pock- 
pittt-d. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. [Rare.] 
pock-pudding (pok'pud'iug), n. A bag-pud- 
ding: sometimes applied to persons as a term 
of opprobrium. [ Scotch.] 
pockwood (pok'wud), . The lignum-vitw, 
Guaiucum officinale. 
pocky (pok'i), a. [< pocW + -t/i.] 1. Having 
pocks or pustules; infected with an eruptive 
distemper, but particularly with syphilis. 
He might, forewarnd, have left hl poetic drabbes. 
Time*' Whittle (E. E. T. a), p. 80. 
2. Vile; rascally; mischievous; contemptible. 
[Vulgar.] 
That Pocky, Rotten, Lying, Cowardly, and most perfidi- 
ous knave, Sir Hugh Caiilverly. Knight. 
Quoted In Ashlan't .Social Life in Kelgn of Queen Anne 
III. 268, Appendix. 
Pocky cloud. Same as ntammato-cvmulut. 
poco (po'ko), ode. [It., little, = Sp. poco = Pg. 
pouco = F. peu, < L. paucus, few: see paucity.] 
In music, a little; somewhat; rather: as, poco 
adagio, somewhat slow. 
pococurante (po'ko-k<j-ran'te), n. [< It. poco, 
little, + eurante, ppr. of curare, care : see cure, 
r.] A person characterized by want of care, 
interest, attention, or the like; au apathetic, 
careless, easy, inaccurate person. 
Leave we my mother (truest of all the Pococurante* of 
her sex ! ) careless about it, as alxml everything else In the 
world which concerned her. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vi. 20. 
pOCOCUrantism (po'kp-kij-ran'tizm), n. (X po- 
cocurante + -ism.] The character, disposition, 
or habits of a pococurante ; extreme indiffer- 
ence, apathy, or carelessness ; inaccuracy. 
The doom of Fat* was. Be thou a Dandy ! Have thy eye- 
glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white- 
breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pocamrantimns. 
Carlyle, Tast and Present, li. 17. 
pOCOCUrantist (po*ko-kii-ran'tist), a. [< poco- 
curante. + -int.] Careless; inaccurate, 
pocokt, A Middle English variant of peacock. 
pOCOSin, ii. See the quotation. 
These swamps [of Virginia and North Carolina) are lo- 
cally known through the region where they occur as "dis- 
mals" or "piKosiiu." 
J. D. Whitney, Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 809. 
pOCUlaryt (pok'u-la-ri), H.; fl. pocularicM (-riz). 
[< \j.poculitin, a goblet: svepoevlnit.] Adrink- 
ing-cup. 
Some brought forth . . . pncularies for drinkers, some 
mamiarics for handlers of relicks, some pedaries for pil- 
grims. Latimer, Sermons and Remains, I. 49. (Davta.) 
poculentt(pok'u-lent),n. [< L.pocittcntu,i,Arink- 
able, < jioculum, a goblet, cup, </ noinpotare, 
drink: see potation.] Fit for drink. 
Some of those herbs which are not esculent are, not- 
withstanding, poculent. Bacon, Nat. Hist., } 630. 
poculiform (pok'u-li-form), a. [= F. poculi- 
forme; < Ij.jioculum, cup, + forma, form.] Cup- 
shaped ; of the shape of a drinkiug-cup or gob- 
let. 
pod (pod), n. [Prob.avar.of^rtrfS.] I. inbot., 
a more or less elongated cylindrical or flattish 
seed-vessel, as 
of the pea, 
bean, catalpa, 
etc.; technical- 
ly, a legume 
or silicle, but 
applied com- 
monly to any 
dry dehiscent 
(mostly) sever- 
al-seeded peri- 
carp, whether 
of one carpel 
(follicle leg- 
t. legume or common vetch , r.rm ja/m.1; 
Several (cap- a, follicle o( peony (Pmmiatficiiiatit); 3,ril- 
aiilo^ Caanntu "l" a of hmer cress (CV""*""""' At'XK/a) ; 4. 
SUle;. beeCUtS sftick of ld penny-cress (7*/<it/ion*m. 
under Arachis. 
balloon-vine, circumscissile, Critcifcree, divi-diri, 
and Eriodendron. 2. The straight channel or 
groove in the body of certain forms of augers 
and boring-bits. 3. The pike when nearly full- 
grown. Halli>cell. [Prov. Eng.] 4. A school 
or shoal, as of fishes or whales ; a group or num- 
ber, as of seals or walruses. 
A pod of whales was seen in the offing. 
C. M Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 38. 
Podalyrieae 
These groups of walrus on the Ice arc by the whalers 
called pool. Fithma o/V. S.,V.ii 
To set around a pod, to inclose * school of flsh In a net. 
[New Eng. ) 
pod (pod), r. i. ; pret. and pp. itoddcd, ppr. jmil- 
ding. [<pod, n.] 1. To swell and assuiiK' tin- 
appearance of a pod. 2. To produce pods. 
3. To drive seals or walruses into a pod or 
bunch for the purpose of clubbing them. 
A singular lurid green light suddenly suffuses the eye 
of the fur-seal at Intervals when It Is very much excited, 
as the podding for the clubbers Is In progress. 
Fuheriet qf U. S., V. II. 36S. 
Podager (pod'ii-jer), w. [NL. (Wagler, 1832), 
< L. podagcr, v Gr. mxJnj/xif, gouty : see poda- 
gra.] An American ^enus of Caprimuujidie, 
typical of the subfamily Podaycriwe, having 
long, strong, entirely naked tarsi, p. nacunda, 
the only species, Inhabits South America. It Is 11 Inches 
long, fuscous, Tcrmiculated and maculated with black; 
the throat, belly, and tip of the tall (in the male)are white ; 
the primaries are black with a broad white bar. 
Podagerinae (pod'ii-je-ri'ne), . pi. [NL., < 
Podager + -iw.] A subfamily of Cajtrimul- 
gidte, typified by the genus Potlai/er, having the 
wings long and the bill glabrirostral, corre- 
sponding to the Caprintulgitiie glabrirostres of 
Sclater, and composed of the genera Podager, 
Lurocalix, and Chordeilea. The best known example 
is the common night-hawk, bull-bat, pisk, or plramidig of 
the r nil i-d States. See cut under niyhl-hawk. 
podagerine (po-daj'e-riu), a. Belonging to the 
Podaferiiut, 
podagra (po-dag'ril), n. [In ME. podagre, < OF. 
(and F.) podagre"= Sp. Pg. It. podagra = D. 
G. Dan. podagra = Sw. podngcr; < L. podagra, < 
Or. Kooafpa, gout in the feet, < iroi'f (fforf-),'foot, 
+ aypa, a catching (cf. cliirayra).] Gout in the 
foot. See gout 1 , 3. 
I cured him of the gout In his feet, and now he talks of 
the chargeableness of medicine. . . . His podagra hath 
become a chiragra ; . . . the gout has got into his fingers, 
and he cannot draw his purse. Scott, Abbot, xxvi. 
podagral (pod'a-gral), </. [< podayra + -al.] 
Same as podagric. 
podagric (po-dag'rik), a. [= It. podagrico ; < 
L. podagricus, gouty, < (!r. iroihiy/imor, gouty, < 
irodnj/OT, gout in the feet: see podagra.] 1. 
Pertaining to the gout; gouty. 2. Afflicted 
with the gout. 
podagrical (po-dag'ri-kal), . [< podagric + 
-al.~\ Same as podagric. 
I shall return to kiss your Hands, nnd your Feet also, 
could I case you of that;*<rfn.7ri<;o/ I'aln which afflicts you. 
Hotetll, Letters, Iv. 42. 
A loadstone held in the hand of one that is podagrical 
doth either cure or give great ease In the gout. 
Sir T. Broime, Vulg. Err., IL 3. 
Podagrion (po-dag'ri-on), n. [NL. (Spinola, 
1811), < Gr. ro<io}/x<f, gouty, < noMipa, gout: 
see podagra.] A notable genus of chalcid 
hymenoptcrous insects, having a very long ovi- 
positor and enlarged and dentate hind thighs. 
It is of cosmopolitan distribution, but mainly tropical, and 
its species are invariably parasitic in the egg-cases of or- 
thopterous insects of the family Mantidaf. 
podagrous (pod'a-grus), a. [= It. podagroso, 
< L. podagrosiix, gouty, < podagra, gout: see 
podagra.'] Same as podagric. 
podalgia (po-dal'ji-a), n. [NL., < Or. 
pain in the feet, < iroi? (TO^-), foot, + 
pain.] Pain in the foot ; especially, neuralgia 
in the foot. 
podalic (po-dal'ik), a. [Irreg. < Gr. m>i'f (iroi-), 
= E. foot, + -al + -tc. Cf. pedal.] Pertaining 
to the feet Podalic version, in obstet., the operation 
of turning the fetus within the uterus so as to bring down 
the feet or some part of the lower extremities: distin- 
guished from cephalic veriion. 
Pqdalyria (pod-a-lir'i-a), n. [NL. (Lamarck, 
1793), < L. Podalirius, < Gr. Uotafaipmf, in myth, 
son of ..'Ksriiljipius.J A genus of leguminous 
shrubs, type of the tribe Podalyrieee, charac- 
terized by the broad obtuse keel-petals united 
on the back, the turgid, ovoid, coriaceous pod, 
simple short-petioled rigid leaves, and a calyx 
remarkably indented at its broadly bell-shaped 
base. The 17 species are natives of South Africa, and are 
silvery-pubescent or villous shrubs, with alternate leaves, 
awl-shaped stipules, and pink, purple, or blue axillary 
flowers, usually only one or two together. P. trricea, the 
African satin-bush, and several other species are culti- 
vated for their flowers and silky leaves. 
Podalyrieae (pod'a-li-ri'e-e), u. pi. [NL. 
(Bentham, 1840), < "Podalyria + -de.] A tribe 
of leguminous plants, characterized by its 
united sepals, papilionaceous petals, ten sepa- 
rate stamens, and simple or radiately compound 
leaves. The Sophoreie, the only other papilionaceous 
tribe with ten free stamens, is different in its pinnate leaves. 
Tilt- Podalurieft Include 26 genera, mainly Australian 
shrubs, with unjuinUxl pods, and usually simple leaves 
not jointed to tlu-ii short petiole. For the best-kuown 
