pounson1t

[ME. pounsonen (in verbal n. and pp.); pounson2 (poun's on), n. one's blood. IMG:content-0758.jpg:[blocks in formation] The Babylonian, A yrian, Medean, Persian monarchies must have poured out seas of blood in their destruction. Burke , Vind. of Nat. Society. To pour oil on the fire. See fire. To pour water on the hands. See hand. II. in trans. 1. To flow; i ue forth in a stream: as, the water poured over the rocks. Through the fair scene roll slow the ling'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. Tennyson, Fair Women. as pounced1, 1. Pounsoned [var. pownsonyd , pownsoned , also pounsed] and dagged clothyng. Chaucer , Parson's Tale. pounsoningt, n. [ME., verbal n. of pounson1 , v .] Punching. So muche pounsonynge [var. pownsenynge , pownsonynge , also pounsyng ) of chisel to maken holes. Chaucer , Parson's Tale. Poupart's ligament. See ligament . poupelt, belt, v. i. [ME.; cf. pop1 , poop3 .] To make a sudden sound or blast with a horn; blow. Of bras they brough ten beemes, and of box, Of horn, of boon, in which they blew and powpede . Chaucer , Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 579. poupe2t, n. [OF. * poupe , pupa , a doll, puppet: see pupa .] A puppet. Palsgrave . poupetont (pöʻpe-ton), n. [ poupeton , dim. of poupette , a puppet: see puppet .] 1. A little baby; a puppet; a doll. Palsgrave .-2. A stew consisting of either meat or fish, or of both; a ragout. Poupeton,... a Me made in a Stew-pan, as it were a Pie, with thin slices of Bacon laid underneath. E. Phillips, 1706. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. Shak ., Lear, iii. 4. 18. May he who gives the rain to pour Protect thee frae the driving shower! Burns , On the Birth of a Posthumous Child. 3. To rush on as in a stream; come forth in great numbers. A nation of barbarians pours down on a rich and unwarlike empire. Macaulay , Gladstone on Church and State. Roll of cannon and clash of arms, And England pouring on her foes. Tennyson, 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. Curtis , Prue and I, p. 67. [ pour1 , v.] 1. Continuous pour1 (por), n. motion as of a stream; flow. The author's striking experiment of comparing solar radiation directly with the pour of molten steel from a Be emer 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. Mi Ferrier , Destiny, xx. ( Davies .) 1. To cause to flow or stream, as a liquid or granular substance, either out of a ve el or into one; discharge in a stream: as, to pour out wine; to pour in salt or sand. Peny-ale and podyng-ale hue pourede to-geders. Piers Plowman (C), vii. 226. It is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out of a cup into a gla , by filling the one doth empty the other. Shak., As you Like it, v. 1. 46. .. Orontes is a Riuer which ariseth in Cælesyria, and in fine powreth himselfe into the lappe of Neptune. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 83. Mean while, Syneidesis pour'd this loud Cry In Psyche's ear. J. Beaumont , Psyche, ii. 113. The soft-eyed well-girt maidens poured The joy of life from out the jars long stored Deep in the earth. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 293. 2. To cause to flow or fall in a succe ion of streams or drops; rain. There was powred downe a great deale of water. IMG:content-0759.png:[blocks in formation] pouret. A Middle English form of pourl , poor , porel. pourer (por'ėr), n. One who or that which pours. pourfillt, v. t. An obsolete form of purfle. pourget, v. An obsolete form of purge . IMG:content-0760.png:[blocks in formation] small quantity of any liquid.-2. A ve el for holding beer or other liquids, with a spout for pouring; a pitcher, as distinguished from a mug; a decanter; a cream-jug. Jamie son. [Scotch.] pouring-gate (por'ing-gat), n. In founding. See gatel, 5 ( a ). pour i wink let, n. An obsolete form of periwin kle. Palsgrave mod How London doth pour out her citizens! Shak., Hen. V., v., Prol., 1. 24. A multitude, like which the populous north Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pa Rhene or the Danaw. Milton, P. L., i. 352. A young man and maid, who were blushing over tentative pourparlers on a life-companionship, sat beneath the corner cupboard. T. Hardy, The Three Strangers.