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ce poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind. Whispering tongues can poison truth. Coleridge.

Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. [Italy]

One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [Cambridge Univ., Eng.]

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives. Sylvester. Coleridge.

A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain. Pons asinorum. Etym: [L., literally, br…

A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges. Ayliffe.

Of or pertaining to the building of bridges. [R.] Now had they brought the work by wondrous art Pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock Over the vexed abyss. Milton.

Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge. [R.] Milton.

rame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.

The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges. "Army instruction in pontooning." Gen. W. T. Shermah.

A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.

.] -- Pony truck (Locomotive Engine), a truck which has only two wheels. -- Pony truss (Bridge Building), a truss which has so little height that overhead bracing can not be used.

The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.

Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.

A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.

A prayer book or breviary; a portass. [Obs.] Portal bracing (Bridge Building), a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.

A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.

all be transmitted to posterity. Shak. Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. Smalridge.

To render active or potent. Coleridge.

by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.