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- English Word Powpow Definition A priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians.
- English Word Powpow Definition Conjuration attended with great noise and confusion, and often with feasting, dancing, etc., performed by Indians for the cure of diseases, to procure success in hunting or in war, and for other purposes.
- English Word Powpow Definition Hence: Any assembly characterized by noise and confusion; a noisy frolic or gathering.
- English Word Powter Definition See Pouter.
- English Word Powwow Definition To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.
- English Word Powwow Definition Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.
- English Word Pox Definition Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
- English Word Pox Definition To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
- English Word Poxed Definition of Pox
- English Word Poxing Definition of Pox
- English Word Poy Definition A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.
- English Word Poy Definition A ropedancer's balancing pole.
- English Word Poy Definition A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream.
- English Word Poy nette Definition A bodkin.
- English Word Poynado Definition A poniard.
- English Word Poynd Definition Alt. of Poynder
- English Word Poynder Definition See Poind, Poinder.
- English Word Poyntel Definition Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.
- English Word Poyou Definition A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also sixbanded armadillo.
- English Word Poze Definition See 5th Pose.
- English Word Pozzolana Definition Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.
- English Word Pozzuolana Definition Alt. of Pozzolana
- English Word Praam Definition A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.
- English Word Practic Definition Practical.
- English Word Practic Definition Artful; deceitful; skillful.
- English Word Practicability Definition The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.
- English Word Practicable Definition That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.
- English Word Practicable Definition Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road.
- English Word Practical Definition Of or pertaining to practice or action.
- English Word Practical Definition Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.