| pocan | <botany> The poke (Phytolacca decandra). Synonym: pocan bush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pochard | <zoology> See Poachard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pock | <medicine> A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases. "Of pokkes and of scab every sore." (Chaucer) Origin: OE. Pokke, AS. Pocc, poc; akin to D. Pok, G. Pocke, and perh. To E. Poke a pocket. Cf. Pox. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| 1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth. 2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven. 3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight. 4. A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. 5. <chemical> A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. A hole containing water. 6. <zoology> Same as Pouch. Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc. Out of pocket. See Out, Pocket borough, a borough "owned" by some person. See Borough. Pocket gopher, a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. Origin: OE. Poket, Prov. F. & OF. Poquette, F. Pochette, dim. Fr. Poque, pouque, F. Poche; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a pocket, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and Pouch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pocketed calculus | A urinary calculus enclosed in a sac developed from the wall of the bladder. Synonym: pocketed calculus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pockmark | The small depressed scar left after the healing of the smallpox pustule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pockwood | <botany> Lignum-vitae. Origin: So called because formerly used as a specific for the pock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pocky | Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. Origin: Pockier; Pockiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pocosin | <botany> A bog that has formed in a shallow, undrained depression, the surrounding land being somewhat elevated, the vegetation predominantly evergreen shrubs or small trees. Pocosins vary greatly in size. (09 Oct 1997) |
| pocoson | Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia. Alternative forms: poquoson. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |