n. Excrement; feces; -- informal baby talk sometimes used as a euphemism. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. A dog. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

v. i. To round one's lips as if intending to kiss.
Syn. -- pooch out. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Russ. pud'. ] A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. pudel. ] (Zool.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

interj. [ Of. imitative origin; cf. Icel. pū. ] Pshaw! pish! nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh! [ Colloq. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ From the native name. ] (Zool.) A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. pōl; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll. ] 1. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. “The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. poule, properly, a hen. See Pullet. ] [ Written also poule. ] 1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets. [ 1913 Webster ]

He plays pool at the billiard houses. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10, 000 into the pool. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pin pool, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. --
Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. --
Pool snipe (Zool.), the European redshank. [ Prov. Eng. ] --
Pool table, a billiard table with pockets. [ 1913 Webster ]