poodle (podl)

[=Sw. Dan. pudel = D. poe del( -hond ), Poœcetes (po-ē-sētēz), n. [NL. (Baird, 1858, in the form Poocætes ), pooh (pö or pu), interj. [Also poh, and formerly puh, pough, pow; cf. Icel. pū, pooh; cf. pugh, pho, phoo, phy, fiel, etc.] An exclamation of dislike, scorn, or contempt. Pough! pr'ythee never trouble thy Head with such Fancies. Prior, The Thief and the Cordelier. IMG:content-0640.png:[blocks in formation] Surely if we could recall that early bitterne should not pooh - pooh the griefs of our children. we George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , i. 7. pookoo (pö'kö), n. [African.] A kind of kob or water-antelope of Africa, Kobus vardoni. See kob. pooll (pöl), n. [ At last I left them I' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. 182. 2. A part of a small stream where the bed sud- denly deepens deepens and broadens, forming a rela- tively still de tively still, deep, and wide stretch of water. Such pools as be large and have most gravel, and shal lows where fish may sport themselves, do afford fish of the purest taste. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 199. The sleepy pool above the dam, The pool beneath it never still. Tennyson, Miller's Daughter. 3. (a) In Pennsylvania, on some of the rivers of the mining regions, a stretch of water lying between two river-dams. Hence-( b ) The country adjacent to such pools. During a strike last fall on one of the pools of the Monon gahela river, a body of miners from one of the other pools came up in a steamboat with a bra band and paraded around the mines, while a committee urged the men who had remained at work despite the strike to come out and join them. N. A. Rev., CXLIII. 275. 4. A measure of work in slating, or covering houses with slate, equal to 168 square feet in all, or to 84 square feet on each side of the roof. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] -5. In decor a tive art, a rounded depre ion, small and short in comparison with its width. Compare fluting. - Pool fishway. See fishway. - Salmon-pools, eddies where the salmon collect. Formerly, in some parts of New England, these pools or eddies were numbered, and the fishermen living near the streams had certain rights in them. Ma . Rep., 1866, p. 32. pool2 (pöl), n. [Formerly poule; gained from the hen), a particular use of F. poule (= Sp. poll a = Pg. polha, a hen), IMG:content-0641.jpg:[graphic] South erne. (Latham.) She had also asked him twice to dine at Rosings, and had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of quadrille in the evening. Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice, xiv. Quadrille pools are the fishes or other counters used in playing the old-fashioned game of quadrille. N. and Q., 7th ser., I. 477. pool 6. A combination intended by concert of action to make or control changes in market rates. More specifically - ( a ) A joint adventure by several owners of a specified stock or other security temporarily subjecting all their holdings to the same control for the purposes of a speculative operation, in which any sacrifice of the shares contributed by one, and any profit on the shares 4619 The waues did ryse so high and thicke, breaking sometime vpon the puppes of the shippes, and sometimes vp on the side, that the shypmen began to vale the sailes. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, fol. 263. The barge she sat in like a burnish'd throne Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold. Shak ., A. and C., ii. 2. 197. A combination interests of several otherwise competing parties, such as rival transportation lines, in which all take common ground as regards the public, and distribute the profits of the busine among themselves equally or according to special agreement. In this sense pooling is a system of reconciling conflicting interests, and of obviating ruinous competition, by which the several competing parties or companies throw their revenue into one common fund, which is then divided or redistributed among the members of the pool on a basis of percentages or proportions previously agreed upon or determined by arbitration.-Blind pool, a pool or combination the purpose of which is known only to the organizers, to whom the other members of the pool leave the entire management of the transaction. See def. 6 (a). - Pin-pool, a game played on a billiard-table with three balls, and five small pins, numbered from one to five. The object of each player is, with the pins he upsets and a number a igned specially to himself, to score 31 points. pool2 (pöl), v. [ interests. IMG:content-0642.png:[blocks in formation] on races, etc., are sold.