pockpitted (pokpit"ed)

Pitted or marked with smallpox. pock-pitten (pok'pit"n), a. Same as pock pitted. Tennyson , Aylmer's Field. [Rare.] pock-pudding (pok'pud"ing), n. A bag-pud- ding: sometimes applied to persons as a term of opprobrium. [Scotch.] pockwood (pok'wud), n. The lignum-vitæ, Guaiacum of ficin ale . pocky (pok'i), a. [ pock1 + -y1.] 1. Having pocks or pustules; infected with an eruptive distemper, but particularly with syphilis. He might, forewarnd, have left his pockie drabbes. Times ' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 80. 2. Vile; rascally; mischievous; contemptible. [Vulgar.] That Pocky , Rotten, Lying, Cowardly, and most perfidious knave, Sir Hugh Caulverly, Knight. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne [II. 268, Appendix. Pocky cloud. Same as mamma to - cumulus . poco (pōkō), adv. [It., little, = Sp. poco =Pg. pouco = F. peu, pococurante (pō kō-kö-rån'te), n. [ Leave we my mother (truest of all the Pococurantes of her sex!) carele about it, as about everything else in the world which concerned her. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vi. 20. pococurantism (pō kō-kö-rán′tizm), n. [ The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye opera-gla es, thy Long-Acre cabs with white breeched tiger, thy yawning impa ivities, pococurantisms . Carlyle, Past and Present, ii. 17. pococurantist (pō kō-kö-ran ́tist), a. [ These swamps [of Virginia and North Carolina) are locally known through the region where they occur as "dismals" or "pocosins." J. D. Whitney, Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 809. pocularyt (pok'ū-lā-ri), n.; pl. pocularies (-riz). pocket-net (pok'et-net), п . A fishing-net in which the fish are caught in certain special [L. poculum , a goblet: see poculent .] Adrink- compartments or pockets. pocket-piece (pok'et-pēs), n. A coin kept in the pocket and not spent, generally a coin that is not current. pocket-pistol (pok'et-pistol), n. 1. A pistol designed to be carried in the pocket. 2. A small liquor-flask, arranged with a screw-stopper, or in other ways safely closed, and often fitted with a cup; a small traveling-flask. [Slang.] He swigged his pocket - pistol . Naylor , Reynard the Fox, p. 42. (Davies.) pocket-rat (pok'et-rat), n. Same as pocket gopher. pocket-relay (pok'et-rē-lā"), n. An instrument which can be carried in the pocket to make telegraphic connection at any point on a line. It is employed in case of accidents, etc., and hence is often called a wrecking - instrument.