- pown
- Mawdesley Glossaryto be harrassed. To have had one's hair cut. Poor and Pown an old term describing someone in difficulties.
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poor and pown — Mawdesley Glossary Poor and polled. Poor and harassed, wrong doers used to have their heads shorn … English dialects glossary
pouncet box — /pown sit/ a small perfume box with a perforated lid. [1590 1600; POUNCE2 or POUNCE3 + ET] * * * … Universalium
poundal — /pown dl/, n. Physics. the foot pound second unit of force, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one foot per second per second on a mass of one pound. Abbr.: pdl [1875 80; POUND2 + AL2] * * * … Universalium
pouncet box — /pown sit/ a small perfume box with a perforated lid. [1590 1600; POUNCE2 or POUNCE3 + ET] … Useful english dictionary
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POW Entertainment — Infobox Company name = POW! Entertainment, LLC company type = Public ( [http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=POWN POWN.PK] ) foundation = 2005 location city = Beverly Hills, CA location country = USA location = locations = key… … Wikipedia
Pologne — 52° 08′ 49″ N 19° 22′ 41″ E / 52.1469, 19.3781 … Wikipédia en Français
poundage — poundage1 /pown dij/, n. 1. a tax, commission, rate, etc., of so much per pound sterling or per pound weight. 2. weight in pounds. [1350 1400; ME; see POUND2, AGE] poundage2 /pown dij/, n. 1. confinement within an enclosure or within certain… … Universalium
pounder — pounder1 /pown deuhr/, n. a person or thing that pounds, pulverizes, or beats. [bef. 1050; OE punere pestle (not found in ME); see POUND1, ER1] pounder2 /pown deuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing having or associated with a weight or value of a pound… … Universalium
