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ter, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake. "Through pond or pool." Milton. Pond hen (Zoöl.), the American coot. See Coot (a). -- Pond lily (Bot.), the water lily. See under Water, and Illust. under Nymphæa. -- Pond snail (Zoöl.), any gastropod living in fresh-water ponds or lakes…

gh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. Ponder the path of thy feet. Prov. iv. 26.

The quality or state of being ponderable.

Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon"der*a*ble*ness, n.

Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Weight; gravity. [R.] Gregory.

Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. [R.] M'Culloch.

To consider; to ponder. [R.]

The act of weighing. [R.] Arbuthnot.

One who ponders.

Deliberating. -- Pon"der*ing*ly, adv.

The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold. Ray.

Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak.

In a ponderous manner.

The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

ecies of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidæ; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish.

Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers. Choke pondweed, an American water weed (Anarcharis, or Elodea, Canadensis.) See Anacharis. -- Horned pondweed, the Zannichellia palustris, a slender, branching aquatic plant, having pointed nutlets.…

One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.

ons and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets] correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.

ies; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office. Macualay.