ponndrel 
All that falsen or vs.- false measures ... or false 
wightes, poundes or poundrettes, or false ellen yerdes, 
wetyngly other than the lawe o( the lond woll. 
J. M;irc, Initructlons for Parish Priest* (E. E. T. S.X p. 22. 
poundrel 2 ! (poun'drel), it. [Appar. a particu- 
lar use of poundrel 1 (T).] The head. 
So nimbly flew away these scoundrels, 
Glad they had 'scap'd, and sav'd their poundrelg. 
Cotton, Works (ed. 1784), p. 14. (UaUiwtU.) 
pound-scoop (pound'skop), n. A scoop-net 
used in taking fish out of a pound. 
pound-weight (pound 'wat), n. A piece of 
metal usea in weighing to determine how much 
makes a pound. 
No man can by words only give another an adequate 
idea of a toot-rule, or a pound-weight. 
Blackstone, Com., I. vlL 
poundwort (pound'wert), . Same as Hercu- 
les' allheal (which see, under Hercules). 
pounsedt, a. See pounced 1 . 
pounson ' t, A Middle English form of pun- 
cheon. 
pounson 1 1, v. [WE. pounsonen (in verbal n. and 
pp.); < pounson 1 , n. Cf. pounce 1 , .] Same as 
pounce*. I. 
pounson 2 (poun ' son), . In coal-mines, a 
dense, soft clay underlying the coal-seam. Also 
called under-day, seat, pavement, floor, or thill 
in different mining districts In England. 
pounsoneclt, ". [ME. : see jjoi/nson 1 , c.] Same 
us pounced 1 , 1. 
Pounsoned [var. pmmtmyd, poumtoned, also poumed] 
and dagged clothyug. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
pounsoningt, * [ME., verbal n. of pounsmi 1 , 
.] Punching. 
So muche poumonynge [var. povntenynye, patcnxmynye, 
also pounsyntf] of chisel to niaken holes. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
Poupart's ligament. See ligament. 
pOUpeH, v. i. [ME.; cf. pop^,poop't.~\ To make 
a sudden sound or blast with a horn ; blow. 
Of bras they broughten beemes, and of box. 
Of horn, of boon. In which they blew and powpede. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 579. 
poupe 2 t, [< OF. "poupe, < L. P7>, a doll, 
puppet: see pupa.] A puppet. Palngrace. 
poupetont (p8'pe-ton), n. [< OF. "poupetoii. 
dim. of poupette, a puppet: seo puppet."] 1. A 
little baby; a puppet; a doll. Palsgrarc. 2. 
A stew consisting of either meat or fish, or of 
both ; a ragout. 
Poupeton, ... a Mess made in a Stew-pan, as It were a 
Pie, with thin slices of Bacon laid underneath. 
E. Phillips, 171X1. 
pour 1 (por), i'. [Early mod. E. also poure, 
powre, power ; < ME. pourrn, poirren, poweren, 
poren, pour; perhaps < W. btcrw, cast, throw, 
rain (bwrwgu>law,'c&st rain,' rain, bwrwdagrau, 
shed tears, bwrw cira, 'cast snow,' snow); cf. 
Gael, purr, push, thrust, drive, urge. Cf. D. 
= LG. purren, stir: see pore 1 ."] itrant. 
. To cause to flow or stream, as a liquid or 
granular substance, either out of a vessel or 
into one ; discharge in a stream : as, to pour 
out wine ; to pour in salt or sand. 
Peuy-ale and podyng-ale hue poured* to-geders. 
Piers Plowman (C), vli. 226. 
It is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out of 
a cup Into a glass, by tilling the one doth empty the other. 
Shak., As you Like it, v. 1. 46. 
Orontes is a Bluer which ariseth in Ccelesyria, and . . . 
in flnepowretA hlmselfe into the lappe of Neptune. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 83. 
Mean while, Syneidesis pour'd this loud Cry 
In Psyche's ear. J. Beaumont, Psyche, 11. 113. 
The soft-eyed well-girt maidens poured 
The joy of life from out the jars long stored 
Deep in the earth. 
William Morrii, Earthly Paradise, I. 293. 
2. To cause to flow or fall in a succession of 
streams or drops ; rain. 
There was pourred downe a great deale of water. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. S. 
This day will pour down, 
If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower, 
But rattling storm of arrows barb'd with fire. 
Milton, P. L., vi. 644. 
3. To send forth as in a stream; discharge; 
emit; send forth in profusion or as in a flood, 
as words. 
And Daniel likewyse, cap. 0., powereth forth his herte 
before God. /;/', Expos, of Daniel iv. 
They pound outa prayer when thy chastening was upon 
them. Isa. xxvi. 16. 
Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee. 
Ezek. vit 8. 
How London doth pour out her citizens ! 
Shak., Hen. V.,v., Prol.,1. . 
A multitude, like which the populous north 
Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass 
Ehene or the Danaw. Milton, P. L., i. 352. 
f 
. 
4659 
Here nature all her sweets profusely pourt, 
And paint* tir enamell'd ground with various flowers. 
day. The Fan, i. 
Tun'd at length to some Immortal song, 
It sounds Jehovah's name, and poun his praise along. 
Cowper, Conversation, 1. 908. 
Over the waving crass- fields of June, the bobolink, tipsy 
with joy, poun his oubbling laughter. 
<?. S. Merriam, S. Bowles, 1. 14. 
Hence 4. To shed; expend: as, to pour out 
one's blood. 
pousse-cafs' 
A young man and maid, who were blushing over tenta 
toe pourparleri 01 
cornel- cupboard. 
tire 'paurparUri on a life-companionship, sat beneath the 
T. Hardy, The Three Strangers. 
Four sprightly coursers with a deadly groan 
Pour forth their lives, and on the pyre are thrown. 
pourpartyt, . See purpurtu. 
pourpoint (por'point), n. [< F. pourpoint (OF. 
pourpoint, pin-point, > ME. purpeynte) = Pr.per- 
pong, perpoing,perponh = Sp. perpunte = Pg. 
perpoente, < ML. perpunctum, a quilted gar- 
ment, prop. neut. pp. of LL. perpungere, pierce 
through, < L. per, through, -r pungere, pierce: 
see pungent, point*-,] 1. A stuffed and quilted 
i pyre are thrown. garment, as a military coat of fence, stuffed 
I'apr, Iliad, xxill. 209. like the gambeson. 
The Babylonian, Assyrian, Medean, Persian monarchies 
must have poured out seas of blood in their destruction. 
Burke, Vlnd. of Nat. Society. 
To pour oil on the flre. See fire. To pour water on 
the rifliidg See hand. 
H. intrans. 1. To flow; issue forth in a 
stream : as, the water poured over the rocks. 
Through the fair scene roll slow the llng'ring streams, 
Then foaming pour along, and rush into the Thames. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 218. 
The torrent brooks of hallow'd Israel 
From craggy hollows pouring, late and soon. 
Sound all night long, In falling thro' the dell. 
Tennyton, Fair Women. 
2. To fall, as a torrent of rain ; rain hard. 
In such a night 
To shut me out ! Pour on ; I will endure. 
Shak., Lear, III. 4. 1*. 
May he who gives the rain to pour . . . 
Protect thee frae the driving shower ! 
Hum*, On the Birth of a Posthumous Child. 
3. To rush on as in a stream; come forth in 
great numbers. 
A nation of barbarians poun down on a rich and UM war- 
like empire. Macaulay, Gladstone on Church and State. 
Roll of cannon and clash of arms, 
And England pouring on her foes. 
Ti-itnifinn, Death of Wellington. 
The slaves poured into the Roman provinces of the East 
in nearly the same character In which the Teutons poured 
Into the Roman provinces of the West. 
E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 431. 
4. To spread ; become diffused. 
The universal calm of southern seas poured from the 
bosom of the ship over the quiet, decaying old northern 
port. G. W. Curtu, Prue and I, p. 67. 
pour 1 (por), n. [< pour 1 , v."] 1. Continuous 
motion as of a stream ; flow. 
The author's striking experiment of comparing solar ra- 
diation directly with the pour of molten steel from a Bes- 
semer converter. Science, XI. 143. 
2. A heavy fall of rain ; a downpour. 
He mounted his horse, and rode home ten miles In a 
pour of rain. Jiuw Ferrier, Destiny, xx. (Davie.) 
pOUT 2 t, ' * A Middle English form of pore 1 . 
pour 3 t, A Middle English form of power 1 . 
pour 4 t, a. A Middle English form of poor. 
pourboire (por-bwor'), . [F., < pour, for, + 
boire, drink,< L. biberc, drink : see bib 1 .] Drink- 
money; adouceur; a "tip." policy of pourboire, 
in international political transactions, the practice of giv- 
ing equivalents or returns for particular courses of govern- 
mental action. 
In 1886 for the policy of pourboire was known then, 
although the name had not, I think, been Invented Italy 
asked at Paris whether she was to join Austria or Prussia 
in the war, as both of them had made to her the same 
promise, that Venice was to be the price of her alliance. 
Fortnightly Ret., N. S., XLI. 2. 
pourchacet, c. t. A Middle English form of 
purchase. 
pourchast, A Middle English form of pur- 
chase. 
pouret. A Middle English form of pour 1 , poor, 
pore 1 . 
pourer (por'er), . One who or that which 
pours. 
pournllt, '' t. An obsolete form otpurfle. 
pourget, i'. An obsolete form of purge. 
pourie (po'ri), n. [(pour 1 + dim. -ie.] 1. A 
small quantity of any liquid. 2. A vessel for 
holding beer or other liquids, with a spout for 
pouring; a pitcher, as distinguished from a mug; 
a decanter; a cream- jug. Jamieson. [Scotch.] 
pouring-gate (p6r'iug-gat),n. la founding. See 
gate 1 , o (a). 
pouriwinklet, An obsolete form of periwin- 
kle. Palggnin-. 
pourlicht, adv. An obsolete form of poorly. 
pourlieut, An obsolete form of purlieu. 
pourparler (por-par'la), n. [P., a conference, 
parley, < OF. pourparler, porparler, purparler, 
confer, parley, < pour- (< L. pro-), before, + 
parler, speak: see parle, r.] A preliminary 
conference of a more or less informal nature ; 
a consultation preliminary to subsequent nego- 
tiation. 
I'ourpoint. 2. From a contem 
iry ctiKr.iving of Henry 11. of 
The knight wears a studded pourpoint, 
J. Hewitt, Ancient Armour, II. 23. 
2. A close-fitting garment worn by men in the 
fourteenth century and 
later, as distinguished 
from the doublet, which 
superseded it. Repre- 
sentations of It show 
smoothly drawn garment, 
without wrinkles or folds. 
Item, j. coveryng of whyte 
lyneu clothe. Item, j. pur- 
poynt. 
Patton tetters, I. 482. 
The slashed velvets, the 
ruffs, the jeweled purpwHtt 
of the courtiers around. 
Green, Short History of the 
[English People, p. 389. 
pourpoint (por'point), 
r. t. [< pourpoint, n.] 
To stuff and quilt, as a 
coat of fence. 
The Jack of Defence . . . 
appears to have been of four 
kinds: it was a quilted coat; po rdr y e 
or It was pmtrpoiiited of lea- France, 
ther and canvas in many 
folds; or it wa formed of mall; or of small plates like 
the brigundine armour. 
J. Hfifitt, Ancient Armour, II. 131. 
pourpointerie (F. pron. por-pwan-te-re'). . 
[F.] (Quilted work. 
The hood is sometimes shewn as made of a cloth-likr 
material (cloth, leather, or pottrjxtinterif). 
J. Heu-itt, Ancient Armour, I. 237. 
pourpointing(p<>r'poin-ting), H. [Verbal n. of 
pout-point, r.] Stuffing and quilting, especially 
of garments of fence, as the ganibeson ; quilted 
work. Compare yamboised. 
pourpoinfrwiset, adr. [< pourpoint + -tcise.] 
By quilting; as if quilted. 
Item, j cover of white clothe, fyne and well-wrought, 
jmrjrynte vcyse. Potion Letiert, I. 478. 
pourpret, A Middle English form of purple. 
pourprestnre, n. See purpreature. 
pourridi6 (po-re-di-a'), n. [F.,< pourrir, rot, < 
putrere, rot: see putrid.] A comprehensive 
terra for certain diseases of the roots of the 
cultivated vine, caused by several fungi, such 
as Agaricus melleua, Dematophora necatrijc, D. 
glomerata, nbrissea hypogxa, etc., and fre- 
quently very destructive to the vineyards of 
southern Europe. The only really efficacious 
remedy is to remove and burn all roots show- 
ing traces of the disease. 
poursuivantt, An obsolete form of pursui- 
vant. 
pourtraictt, >'. t. Same as portrait. 
pourtraiet, r. A Middle English form of por- 
tray. 
pourtraiourt, A Middle English form otpor- 
trayer. 
pourtraituret, . An obsolete form of portrait- 
ure. 
pourtrayt, t 1 . An obsolete form of portray. 
pourvey, r. See purvey. 
pourveyance, n. Seejaurveyanee. 
poust, A Middle English form of pulse 1 . 
Chaucer. 
pouse, pouss (pous), r. and n. A dialectal 
(Scotch) form of push. 
What tho' at times, when I grow crouse. 
I gl'e their wames a random poute. 
Burnt, To a Tailor. 
pousht, n. An obsolete form of push. 
pousset, . An obsolete form of pulse 2 . 
pousse-caf6 (pos'ka-fa'), [F.,<poMer,pu8h, 
f cafe, coffee.] A drink served after coffee at 
dinner, composed of several cordials (gener- 
ally two parts of maraschino and one each of 
chartreuse, absinthe, vermouth, and benedic- 
tinc, with a film of brandy), forming successive 
layers in the glass. The name is often given 
to any cordial taken after coffee. 
