n. [ Canarese ponne. ] A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, Calophyllum inophullum, and Sterculia fœtida; -- called also peon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Poona, in Bombay Province, India. ] A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence:
Poonah brush,
paper,
painter, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra). [ 1913 Webster ]