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A variant of poust. pop1 (pop), v.; pret. and pp. popped, ppr. pop ping. [Imitative; cf. Gr. ποππύζειν, pop, smack, whistle or chirp with the lips compre ed; cf. also poop2.] I. in trans. 1. To make a quick sudden explosive report. Neesing and popping or smacking with the mouthe. Touchstone of Complexions , p. 124. ( Encyc . Dict .) The Century , XL. 219. They convinced him that any of his men could away at him with a gun. IMG:content-0645.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0646.png:[blocks in formation] Others have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper to the audience, like an idle schoolboy. Swift . When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits in a warren. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, ii. 3. To propose marriage. - Popping widgeon, one of various ducks which dive with celerity; a diving duck, or ducker; a merganser. [Local, Eng.] To pop off, to disappear or depart suddenly; die. The Gineral he was thick-set and short-necked, and drank pretty free, and was one o' the sort that might pop off any time. H. B. Stowe , Oldtown, p. 37. II. trans. 1. To cause to make a sudden explosive report. And all round the glad church lie old bottles With gunpowder stopped, Which will be, when the Image re-enters, Religiously popped . Browning , English man in Italy. 2. To thrust forward, or offer suddenly or abruptly; put or thrust suddenly: with in , into , out , or upon . My daughter Nell shall pop a po et vpon thee, when thou goest to bed. Heywood , 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, I. 47). These our Prelates, who are the true Succe ors of those that popt them into the other world. Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. Eat your porridge now, little ones. Charlotte, pop a bit of butter in Carrick's porridge. Thackeray , Philip, xvi. While some of the small fry popped out their heads to have a look. W. Black, House-boat, viii. 3. To thrust aside or put off abruptly or unexpectedly. That is my brother's plea and none of mine; The which if he can prove, a' pops me out At least from fair five hundred pound a year. Shak., K. John, i. 1. 68. And do you pop me off with this slight answer? Fletcher ( and another ), Noble Gentleman, i. 1. 4. To put suddenly: as, to pop the question. See phrase below. Plagued with his doubts and your own diffidences; afraid he would now, and now, and now, pop out the question which he had not the courage to put. Richardson , Grand is on, vi. 103. 5. To pawn, or pledge with a pawnbroker. [Slang.] To pop corn, to parch or roast a particular variety of maize until it pops or bursts open. [U. S.]To pop the question, to propose unexpectedly the important question (or its equivalent) "will you marry me?" hence, without implication of unexpectedne , to make an offer of marriage. [Colloq.] Growing faint at this sudden proposal to wed, As though his abruptne , in popping the question So soon after dinner, disturb'd her digestion. Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 39. pop1 ( pop ), n. [ I cannot bear people to keep their minds bottled up for the sake of letting them off with a pop . George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, xxxix. 2. An effervescent beverage: so called from popedom There were three or four bidders, I cannot tell whether, But they never could come two together; For as soon as one spoke, then immediately pop I advanc'd something more, fear the hammer should drop. Byrom, To Henry Wright, Esq. pop2+ (pop), v. t. [ Fetys she was and smale to se, No wyntred browes hedde she, Ne popped hir, for it nedede noughte To wyndre hir, or to peynte hir ought. Rom. of the Rose, 1. 1019. The aungelle ansuered, for whanne she was on luye she plucked, popped and peinted her visage for to plese the Alas whi take women none hede sighte of the worlde. of the gret loue that God hat he yeue hem to make hem after hys figure? and whi pop i the they, and paint i the and pluckethe her visage otherwise than God hat he ordeined? Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry , p. 68. pop2+ (pop), n. [ ME.poppe; pop4 (pop), n. A contraction of popular: as, the Monday pops (popular concerts). [Low.] pop-corn (pop'kôrn'), n. 1. One of several varieties of Indian corn suitable for "popping." They have small ears and kernels, the latter white, yellow, or red, sharp-pointed or not. Pop-corn abounds in oil, the expansion of which under heat causes an explosion, in which the contents of the kernel become puffed out, nearly hiding the seed-coat, and a uming a pure white color. 2. Corn thus prepared; popped corn. pop-dock (pop'dok), n. The foxglove, is purpure a: so called from its large coarse leaves, and the use made of the corolla by children after inflating it. Also pop - glove, pops, popру. [Prov. Eng.] -S popel (pop), n. [ 2. The patriarch of Alexandria.-3. A priest in the Greek or Ru ian Church.-4. The head of any church or ecclesiastical system. And in that Yle dwellethe the Pope of hire Lawe, that they clepen Loba y. Mandeville , Travels, p. 308. Adoration of the Pope. See adoration . - Pope's crown, in her ., same as tiara . - Pope's size, a size so named as a trade-term. See the quotation. A year or two ago I bought a merino vest. On the bill I noticed P. S. after it, and by enquiry I elicited that P. S. Poverty. [Scotch.] poor-will (pör'wil), n. [Imitative; cf. whip poorwill.] A bird of the genus Phalænoptilus, as P. nuttalli: so called from its characteristic di yllabic note. Nuttall's poor-will is a common bird in most parts of the western United States, where it mainly replaces the whippoorwill. See Phalænoptilus. as, ginger - pop. With lobsters and whitebait, and other swatemeats, And wine, and nag us, and imperial pop. stout. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 277. Home-made pop that will not foam, And home-made dishes that drive one from home. A pair of pops , silver-mounted. I took them loaded from the captain. Smollett , Roderick Random, viii. Poöspiza (pō-ō-spi'zä), n . [NL. (Cabanis, 1847), σπίζα , a finch.] A genus of and n.] Suddenly; abruptly; with unexpected South American fringilline birds. The United States black-chinned and Bell's buntings, long called respectively P. bilineata and P. bell i, are now placed in the genus Amphispiza. See cut under sage - sparrow. pop1 (pop), adv . [An elliptical use of popl , v. entrance or exit. Into that bush Pop goes his pate, and all his face is comb'd over. popedom pope; also, the temporal or spiritual jurisdiction of a pope. All that world of wealth I have drawn together For mine own ends; indeed, to gain the popedom , And fee my friends in Rome. Shak ., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. 212. The next default was in the Bishops, who, though they had renounc't the Pope, they still hugg'd the Popedome . Milton , Reformation in Eng., i. The Crusades, too, had now made the Western world tributary to the Popedom . Milman , Latin Christianity, i. 9.