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Pogies
- noun - money received from the state
Pogrom
- noun - organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)
Poilus
- noun - a French soldier (especially in World War I)
- thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S.
POINTE
- unknown - Ballet position where the body is balanced on the extreme tips of the toes.
Points
- noun - a brief version of the essential meaning of something; "get to the point"; "he missed the point of the joke"; "life has lost its point"
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list; "he noticed an item in the New York Times"; "she had several items on her shopping list"; "the main point on the agenda was taken up first"
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic; "he knows my bad points as well as my good points"
- a geometric element that has position but no extension; "a point is defined by its coordinates"
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water; "they sailed south around the point"
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence t
Poirot
- unknown - Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective.
Poised
- verb - be motionless, in suspension; "The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked"
- cause to be balanced or suspended
- hold or carry in equilibrium
- in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"
- marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer"
- prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult
- Serene
Poiser
- - The balancer of dipterous insects.
Poises
- noun - a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second
- a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium
- be motionless, in suspension; "The bird poised for a few moments before it attacked"
- cause to be balanced or suspended
- great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"
- hold or carry in equilibrium
- prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult