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A small glass of beer. [Slang] Pony chaise, a light, low chaise, drawn by a pony or a pair of ponies. -- Pony engine, a small locomotive for switching cars from one track to another. [U.S.] -- Pony truck (Locomotive Engine), a truck which has only two wheels. -- Pony truss (Bridge Building), a truss which has so litt…

es of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.

See Compony.

is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes.

Same as Eponymous. Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.

Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions Grote.

The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.

An onyx, part or all of whose layers consist of jasper.

One of a small, hardy breed of horses, with long mane and tail, which originated in the Shetland Islands; a sheltie.

A name of a place; more broadly, a name, as in the binomial name of a plant, based on, or derived from, a place name, or based on the location of the thing named.

A system of toponyms; the use of toponyms. -- To*pon"y*mal (#), Top`o*nym"ic (#), Top`o*nym"ic*al (#), a.

two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.

n the Philippines, a light, two-wheeled, boxlike vehicle usually drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

An Indian pony. [Northw. U. S.]

See Compony.

A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. Chaucer.

A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse.

A Shetland pony.

A pony. [India]