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||Pod`o*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + &?;, ||&?;, mouth.] (Zoˆl.) An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the ||type. See Rhabdopleura.

||Pod`o*the"ca (?), n.; pl. PodothecÊ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. poy`s, podo`s, ||foot + &?; case.] (Zoˆl.) The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or ||reptile.

||Po*dri"da (?), n. [Sp., rotten.] A miscellaneous dish of meats. See ||Olla-podrida.

Po*du"ra (?), n.; pl. L. PodurÊ (#), E. Poduras (#). [NL.; Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + &?; tail.] Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail.

Podura scale (Zoˆl.), one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope.

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Po*du"rid (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Any species of Podura or allied genera. -- a. Pertaining to the poduras.

Po"e (?), n. Same as Poi.

Po"e*bird` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The parson bird.

Pú"ci*le (?), n. Same as Poicile.

Pú`ci*lit"ic (?), a. [Gr. poiki`los many-colored, variegated.] (Geol.) (a) Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks. (b) Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors. [Also written poikilitic.]

Pú*cil"o*pod (?), n. [Cf. F. púcilopode.] (Zoˆl.) One of the Púcilopoda. Also used adjectively.

||Pú`ci*lop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; variegated, manifold + ||-poda.] (Zoˆl.) (a) Originally, an artificial group including many ||parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs ||(Limuloidea). (b) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.

Po"em (?), n. [L. poÎma, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to make, to compose, to write, especially in verse: cf. F. poÎme.] 1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.

2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

Po`em*at"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;.] Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical. [R.] Coleridge.

Po*e"na*mu (?), n. (Min.) A variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in New Zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons.

Pú*nol"o*gy (p*nl"*j), n. See Penology.

||Po*eph"a*ga (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. pohfa`gos grass eating; po`a ||grass + fagei^n to eat.] (Zoˆl.) A group of herbivorous marsupials ||including the kangaroos and their allies. -- Po*eph"a*gous (#), a.

Po"e*sy (?), n. [F. poÈsie (cf. It. poesia), L. poesis, from Gr. &?;. from &?; to make. Cf. Posy.]

1. The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. Shak.

2. Poetry; metrical composition; poems.

Music and poesy used to quicken you.

Shak.

3. A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy. Bacon.

Po"et (?), n. [F. poÎte, L. poÎta, fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to make. Cf. Poem.] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

Shak.