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Pour`par"ty (?), n.; pl. Pourparties (#). [See Purparty.] (Law) A division; a divided share.

To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

Pour"point (?), n. [F.] A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.

Pour*pres"ture (?; 135), n. (Law) See Purpresture.

Pour"sui*vant (?), n. See Pursuivant.

Pour*tray" (?), v. t. See Portray.

Pour*vey"ance (?), n. See Purveyance.

Pousse (ps), n. Pulse; pease. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pous*sette" (p*st"), n. [F., pushpin, fr. pousser to push. See Push.] A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. Dickens.

Pous*sette", v. i. To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] Tennyson.

Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross.

J. & H. Smith.

Pout (pt), n. [F. poulet. See Poult.] The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. Carew.

Pout (pt), v. i. To shoot pouts. [Scot.]

Pout (pout), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouting.] [OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf. Prov. pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch, belly.] 1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.

Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love.

Shak.

2. To protrude. "Pouting lips." Dryden.

Pout, n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's in the pouts." J. & H. Smith.

Pout, n. [Cf. Eelpout.] (Zoˆl.) The European whiting pout or bib.

Eel pout. (Zoˆl.) See Eelpout. -- Horn pout, or Horned pout. (Zoˆl.) See Bullhead (b).

Pout"er (-r), n. 1. One who, or that which, pouts.

2. [Cf. E. pout, and G. puter turkey.] (Zoˆl.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.

Pout"ing, n. Childish sullenness.

Pout"ing*ly, adv. In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.

Pov"ert (pv"rt), n. Poverty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pov"er*ty (pv"r*t), n. [OE. poverte, OF. povertÈ, F. pauvretÈ, fr. L. paupertas, fr. pauper poor. See Poor.] 1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble.

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.