ponffe 
bunch lor decoratlTe effect. <> In -yAWshwy. a iisahlnn. 
or ottoman, made mj sort with springs Mid stuffing. - 
Double-pouffe ottoman. See tttmtmi. 
pougonie, pougonn6 (pd-go-ne', -na'), n. The 
Iii'fian palm-cat or palm-marten, a kind of par- 
adoxure, 1'aradoiurux typut. 
poukeH, An obsolete form of puck. 
pouke'-H, . Secport. 
poukenelt, [Also jxnrkenel, povte-neeale ; 
said to be so called in allusion to the long 
beaks of the seed-vessels; < poute, older form 
of puck, + needle.] The plant Venus's-comb, 
Scandii Peeten-Veneri*. 
poulaine (pS-lan'), [Also poii/aiH ; ME. po- 
layiK, polaya, poltin. puleyn, < OP. poulaine, poul- 
laine, "toulierg a poulaine, old fashioned shoes, 
held on the feet by httchets running overthwart 
the instup, which otherwise were all open; also, 
those that had a fashion of long hooks sticking 
out at the end of their toes" (Cotgrave). Cf. 
8p. Pg.polaina, usually in pi. polainan, gaiters, 
spatterdashes, from the F.] A long, pointed 
4656 
poultert (porter), N. [Early mod. E. also powl- 
ler, puller; < ME. pulter, < OF. pouletier, pole- 
tier, pulletter, a dealer in fowls, < poulet, a 
' Sameaspo*^ 
pullet, fowl: see poult, pullet.] 
terer (and the earlier form). 
His eyes art set, 
Like a dead hare's hung In a pauUa't ahop 
B.Jm 
The oosUnnonger* frnlte n, 
, 
TbeptmUen send n In fowl, 
And botcher* meate without controuL 
. IV. 
Htutnad, 1 Edw. IV. (Work*, ed. Pearson, 1874, L 11). 
Poulten' measure*, * kind of Terse combining line* of 
twelre and fourteen syllables. See the quotations. 
pounce 
2. A number f specimens of the common heu, 
as distinguished from ducks, geese, etc.; par- 
ticularly, chickens dressed for market. 
The fat cook - or probably It might be the housekeeper 
-stood at the side-door, bargaining for some turkeys and 
poultry, which a country-man had brought for sale. 
_ UmMorne, Seven Gable*, lilt 
Volpone, T. a. poultry-farm (pol'tri-fann), H. A place where 
poultry are reared and kept; an extensive 
establishment for the breeding and fattening 
of poultry and the commercial production of 
The commonest tort of Terse which we vse now adayes 
(Tiz. the long Terse of twelne and fonrtene tillable*) I 
know not certainly howe to name It, vnlesse I should say 
that it doth consist of PouUer"i mtuturt, which gineth 
xU. for one doieu and xiiij. for another. 
Gaxoignf, Steele Ola*, etc. (ed. Arber), p. 39. 
, 
other fourteene, which Terslfyers *11 pouitm meature, 
becanse so they tallie their ware* by dozens. 
bbe, Discourse 
. itry-feeder (pol'tri-fe'der), n. 1. A hopper 
for grain the contracted open bottom of which 
extends below the rim of a feeding-trough for 
fowls, and allows fresh grain to descend into 
the trough as fast as it is emptied by the fowls. 
2. An epinette, or gavage apparatus, 
poultry-house (pol'tri-hous), . A building in 
which poultry are sheltered or reared ; a hen- 
house or chicken-house. 
r. WeMe, Discourse of Eng. Poetrie, p. 02. (Done*.) poultry-yard (pol'tri-yard), n. A yard or in- 
poulterer (pol'ter-er), . [< poulter + -erl ; closure for poultry, including usually the build- 
the suffix being needlessly added as in fruiterer, ings and appliances commonly connected with 
upholsterer, etc.] 1 . One whose business is the such a yard. 
sale of poultry, and often also of hares, game, poun 1 *, An obsolete form of pound*. 
etc., for the table. poun 2 !, n. An obsolete variant of par* 2 . Chau- 
Yesterday the lord* past the bill for the preservation cer. 
of the game, in which is a clause that If any poulterer, pounaget, n. An obsolete form of pannage. 
after the 1st of May next, sell* hare, pheasant, partridge pounce 1 (pouns), C. ; pret. and pp. povnrfd, ppr. 
*c., [he] shall forfeit 51. for erery offence, unless he has a ~" -, -ij 
certificate from the lord of the manner that they were not 
taken by poachers. LultreU, Diary, March 15, 1707. 
2f. Formerly, in England, an officer of the king's 
household who had supervision of the poultry, 
poult-foot (polt'fut), n. and a. [Formerly also 
poKlt-foot, commonly poll-foot; lit. 'chicken- 
foot'; <pOHlt,pol&, +foot.] L . A club-foot. 
Venus was content to take the Make Smith with his 
pnrU/oote. Lyly, Enphues, AnaU of Wit, p. 97. 
she hath a crooked backe, he a polte-foote. 
PtMlatees. ckc of utb century. 
.4. slipper ; B. tombe and olleret with pouUine : t". riding-boot ; />. 
sole of clog for wearing with either A or C. 
shoe worn in the fourteenth century. See 
cracow. 
The half -boot* or shoes distinguished as puvlaine* con- 
tinued to be long and very sharply pointed. 
Kncyt. BriL, VL 489. 
Poulaine de varlet, a poulalue with shorter projecting 
toe, such being the only ones allowed tii working people 
and domestics, not merely for coiiTenlence or utility, but 
by express ordinance*. 
poulcet, n. A Middle English form of pulse 1 . 
pouldavlst, Same aapoledary. 
pouldert, r- An obsolete form of Border, 
pouldredt, . An obsolete form of potcdered. 
pouldron. H. A variant of paultiron. 
poule (p81), n. [F.: see pooP, .] 1. Incard- 
playing. See poo/ 2 . 2. One of the movements 
of a quadrille. 
pouleinet, A Middle English form of pullen. 
poulet (po-la'). n. [F., a note: see pullet.] A 
note ; a familiar note. 
Miss Tristram's poulct ended thus : " Nota bene, 
We meet for croquet in the Aldobrandini." 
Lacker, Hi. Placid's Flirtation. 
ponlp, pOUlpe (p61p), - [< F- poulpe, < L. poly- 
pus: see polypus.'] A cuttlefish or octopus. 
See polyp (a). 
The description of the poulpe or derll-flsh, by Victor 
Hugo, in 'The Toilers of the Sea," with which so many 
readers haTe recently become familiar, I* quite a* fab- 
ulous and unreal as any of the earlier account*, and 
eren more bizarre. His description represent* no real 
1 whatever. He has attributed to the creature hah- 
IU and anatomical structure* that belong In part to the 
polyp* and In part to thesmisw (Octopu*), and which ap 
pear to haTe been deriTed largely from the serend descrip- 
tion* of thee totally distinct group* of animal* contained 
In some cyclopedia. t'rrrOL 
poult (polt), n. [Early mod. E. also porlt (and 
pnlt : see poult-foot); also dial, pout, poict; 
< ME. pultf, a contr. of polete, a pullet, fowl : 
see pullfi. Cf. poulter, poultry.'] The young 
or chick of the domestic fowl, turkey, pheasant, 
guinea-fowl, and similar birds. 
I'ti 
You do not feed on pheuant 
ge for Honour, L 1. 
The third (dish] contained a turkey-jwrt on a i 
i ;-..-. . . SmcO*t,ti. of Oil Bias, il. 4 
A turkey poult larded with bacon and spice. 
Barkam, Iugold*by Legend*, L 1. 
poult (poll), t>. t [< poult,*.] To kill poultry. 
e, 
Time* 1 Whittle (E. E. T. S.X P- 
n. a. Club-footed. 
What 's become of . . . V enus, and the poft-/oo stinkard 
her husband? B. Jonton, Poetaster, IT. 7. 
The rough construction and the poUfaal metre, lame 
sense and limping Terse. SirintmrHe, Shakespeare, p. 185. 
[Obsolete or archaic in both uses.] 
poult-footedt (polt'fut'ed), <i. [< poult-foot + 
-*2.] Club-footed. 
1 will stand close up anywhere to escape this polt-fouted 
philosopher, old Smug here of Lemnos, and his smoky 
family. B. Jonton, Mercury Vindicated. 
poultice (pol'tis), n. [Early mod. E. also pultis, 
pultexxe; < OF. as if 'pultice, < ML. 'pulticinm, 
poultice (cf . OF. pulte = It. polta, poultice, It. 
also poltiglia, formerly also pultiglia, pap, por- 
ridge, formerly also poultice). < L. pul(t-)g, 
thick pap, porridge: see pnJr? 2 .] A soft and 
usually warm mass of meal, bread, herbs, or the 
like, used as an emollient application to sores, 
inflamed parts of the body. etc. ; a cataplasm. 
I* this the poultia for my aching bone*? 
Sta*., R. and J., 11. 5. 65. 
Pultita made of green herbs. 
Aurton, Anat. of Met, p. 380. 
Treating It [a stiff Joint] . . . with pouUiea of marsh- 
mallows, . . . bonus Henrlcns, white lilies, and fenugreek. 
Strrne, Tristram Shandy, Tii. 21. 
And silence like a paultic* comes 
To heal the Mows of sound. 
0. W. lloima. Organ-grinder. 
poultice (pol'tis), r. *.; pret. and _pp. poulticed, 
ppr. poulticing. [< poultice, it.] To cover with 
a poultice ; apply poultices to. 
Back into the friendly shadow* of the mountain the 
young man carried his paultiad ear and picturesque scan. 
Tin Century, XXXVI MM. 
poultice-boot (pol'tis-bSt), w. A large boot 
with soft leather sides and a heavy sole-leather 
bottom, used for applying a poultice to a horse's 
leg. E. H. JinUfkt. 
poultice-shoe (p61'tis-h8), . SameaspoMKier- 
600*. nryf. Brit., XXIV. 202. 
poultry (pol'tri). n. [Early mod. E. also put- 
trie; < ME. pultrie, pultrye, < OF. pouleterie, 
pouUeterie, pouletrie, pottetrie, fowls collective- 
ly, poultry, < poulet, a pullet, fowl: see poult, 
puUet.'] I. Domestic fowls collectively; those 
binls which are ordinaril v kept in a state of do- 
mestication for their flesh, eggs, or feathers, as 
the domestic hen, turkeys, guinea-fowl, geese, 
and ducks. Pigeon* are not ordinarily included In the 
term, mar are phBasaari or other bird* which are kept la 
pouncing. [< ME. poungen, a var. of puneken. 
punch, pierce (see punch); in part prob. an 
abbr. of pounsonen, punch: see poungon 1 , r.] 
L 'raw. 1. To punch; prick; perforate; make 
holes in ; specifically, to ornament by perforat- 
ing or cutting; ornament with holes, especially 
eyelet-holes. 
A shorte coate garded and pmmerd after the galllarde 
fashion. .SYr T. 2y<*, The GoTernonr, li. S. 
They make holes in their faces, and, foorthwith sprinke- 
lynge a ponder theron, they molste the pottnad place 
with a certeyne blacke or reade inlse. 
Piter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. 
[Arber, p. 182). 
The women with an Iron pmnice and race their bodies, 
legs, thigbes. and armes,in curious knots and portraitures 
of fowles, ttshes, beasts, and nib a painting into the same. 
which will hener out PureJuu, Pilgrimage, p. 788. 
2t. To cut, as glass or metal ; ornament by cut- 
ting. 
Item, IJ. ewers, gflt, pomaed with flonres nd branncbe*. 
wdyng xxxix. nnces. Pcuton Letter*. L 468. 
PuniMum. . . . to pounce, or work pouncing work. 
Piano. 
A pounced decanter would be what we now term a cut 
decanter. HaUixeU. 
3. To seize with the pounces; strike suddenly 
with the claws or talons. 
As if an eagle flew aloft, and then 
Stoop'd from it* highest pitch to paunet a wren. 
Cmrprr, Table Talk. L 553. 
4. In hat-making, to raise a nap on (a felt hat). 
See pouncing-machine. 
IX i >it mil*. To fall on and seize with the 
pounces or talons; dart or dash upon, like a 
bird of prey upon its victim ; seize suddenly : 
used with on or upon. 
The eagle pnunctf on the lamb. Scott, Rokeby, lit 1. 
Eagles such a* Brandon do not sail down from the 
clouds in order to pounce upon small flies, and soar air- 
wards again, contented with such an Ignoble booty. 
Tlaetmg, Shabby Genteel Story, IT. 
Crime being meant, not done, yon punish still 
The means to crime you haply ixxutot wamt, 
Though circumstance hate balked yon of their end. 
flrwmtsv, King and Book, II. 98. 
pounce 1 (pouns), . [< pouneel, r. ; in part 
prob. an abbr. of pounson*: see potowoii 1 . Cf. 
pmwAi, n.] It. A punch orpuncheon ; a stamp. 
A pounce to print the money with. 
WiUuOt, Diet, p. 147. (Ultra.) 
2t. A sharp-pointed graver. 3t. Cloth pounced, 
or worked with eyelet-holes. 
One spendeth his patrimony upon potmen and cut*. 
Boot of HomOitt, Against Exces* of Apparel, IL 
4. A claw or talo_n of a bird of prey: the claw 
or paw of any animal. 
He did fly her home 
To mine own window ; but I think I soused him. 
And raTished her away out of his pomes*. 
& Jfnttn, Derll Is an Ass. IT. S. 
We saw an eagle In close pursuit of a hawk that had 
nah In his >.. Bswriay, Virginia, II. 5 i*. 
poult-de-soie (pd-de-swo'), . A heavy corded 
silk material used for dresflea. 
A lk>n may be IndgM by these two claw* of his mtunet. 
Bp. Hmettt, Abp. Williams, L 71. (fist***.) 
His lorde* .cheep, Wjoe.*, . wdhlss^JIri,. pounce 2 (pouns), n. [< F. ;. = Sp. pome, 
= Pg. pomet = It. i>miee. < L. jtumex (pumie-), 
It Is ryght lykely that within a short* space of yeares ..v-./v. 1 1 A a,itil.n. .iirh 
our fmmlliar pultrie ahal be a* scarce a* beliow partrlche pumice . see pumux. ] 1 . A 8V itance, SB 
,. : ... OrT. Oral. The OorerBour. L is. r>owdered sepia-bone or powdered sandaracb. 
