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A kind of johnnycake. [Written also paune.] [Southern U. S.]

Western; occidental. [R.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.

To put before; to prefer. [Obs.] Bailey.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

Of or pertaining to an aponeurosis.

Dissection of aponeuroses.

A young capon. [R.] Chapman.

To compose; to settle; to arrange. [Obs.] A good pretense for componing peace. Strype.

Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

Having a cramp or square piece at the end; -- said of a cross so furnished.

To assert under oath; to depose. [A Scotticism] Sprot deponeth that he entered himself thereafter in conference. State Trials(1606).

A deponent verb.

To make over, or convey, legally. He has disponed . . . the whole estate. Sir W. Scott.

The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.

One who legally transfers property from himself to another.

To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil. [Old Eng. & Scotch] Drummond.

, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles. Exponent of a ratio, the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent; thus, 6 is the exponent of the ratio of 30 to 5. [R.]

Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. -- Exponential equation, an equation which contains an exponential quantity, or in which the unkno…

To stake; to wager; to pledge. [Obs.] Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards. Shak.