pongo (pong go)

[F. pongo (NL. Pongo); from a native name in Borneo.] 1. A large anthropoid ape of Borneo, Simia (or Pithecus ) wurmbi, not known to be distinct from the ordinary orang-utan, Simia satyr us.-2. [ cap.] [NL.] A genus of apes, including the gorilla ( P. gorilla ) and the chimpanzee ( P. troglodytes ). Lacepède. [Little used.] poniard (pon'yärd), n. [An altered form of earlier poiniard, poinard (also corruptly poina do, poinadoe ) = MD. poniaerd, D. ponjaard, [Southern United States in both uses.] pone2 (poʻnē), n . [ pone , impv. of ponere , place: see ponent .] In old Eng . law : (a) A writ whereby an action depending in an inferior court might be removed into the Court of Common Pleas. (b) A writ whereby the sheriff was commanded to take security of a person for his appearance upon an a igned day. pones (po'nē), n. [ Cf. pone2.] In the game of the eldest hand. ponent (po'nent), a. [ Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr. Milton , P. L., x. 704. 2. [ cap .] A division of the Paleozoic strata in Pennsylvania, according to the nomenclature the Cat skill group of the New York survey, forming one of the divisions of the Upper Devonian. ponente (po-nen'te), n. [It.: see ponent.] In Italy, the west; the region in the west: as, the Riviera di Ponente; hence, the west wind. suggested by H. D. Rogers: it corresponds to Ponera (po-neʻrä), n. [NL. (Latreille, 1804),