Pomatomus (pomatomus)

[NL. (Lacépède, 1812), prop. * Pomato tom us, so called from Their hair, untortured by the abominations of art, was scrupulously pomatumed back from their foreheads with a Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 172. pombe (pom'be), n . [African.] Akind of beer made throughout central and eastern Africa. pome (pom), n . [ ME.pome , OF.poте , ротте , an apple, ball, etc., F. pom me , an apple, = Sp. pomo , fruit, apple, scent-bottle, nosegay, pom a , apple, perfume-box, = Pg. pomo , fruit, apple, = It. pomo , apple, ball, pommel, etc., po mum , fruit, as an apple, pear, peach, cherry, fig, date, nut, grape, truffle, etc., in ML. esp. an apple; also a fruit-tree ( pom us , a fruit-tree).] 1. An apple; a fruit of the apple kind; specifically, in bot . , a fleshy fruit composed of the thickened walls of the adnate calyx embracing one or more carpels, as the apple, pear, etc. Oxe dounge about her rootes yf that me trete, The pomes sadde and brawny wol it gete. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 87. 2t. A ball or globe; the kingly globe, mound, or ball of dominion. Dre id one me a diademe, that dighte was fulle faire, And syne profres me a pome pighte fulle of faire stonys,... In sygne that I sothely was soverayne in erthe. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3355. 3. In the Western Church, in medieval times, a small globe of silver or other metal filled with hot water and placed on the altar during ma in cold weather, so that the priest might keep his fingers from becoming numb, and thus avoid danger of accident to the elements.