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noun

Pome n.

(Bot.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

(R. C. Ch.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pome" Quotes from Famous Books

... equal spirit and sagacity. He re-assembled and refreshed his broken troops: he furnished his camp with cannon from the arsenal at Berlin, which likewise supplied him with a considerable number of recruits; he recalled general Kleist, with five thousand men, from Pome-rania, and in a little time retrieved ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... it, and demanded of Frink, "Say, see if you can get old Dant' to spiel us some of his poetry. Talk up to him. Tell him, 'Buena giorna, senor, com sa va, wie geht's? Keskersaykersa a little pome, senor?'" ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... lines the calyx-tube; stamens usually many, distinct, inserted with the petals; carpels of the ovary 1-5, partially or entirely united with each other; ovules 1-2 in each carpel; styles 1-5; fruit a fleshy pome, often berry-like or drupe-like, formed by consolidation of the carpels with ...

— Handbook of the Trees of New England • Lorin Low Dame

... each Day * Robeth in bright array. As though each pome thereon * Would self to sight display. Like falcon-bell of gold * ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton

... heard from the direction of the house, and turning, Ken saw his sister dropping him a curtsey at the door. "That," she said, "is a poem, not a pome—a perfectly ...

— The Happy Venture • Edith Ballinger Price

... of Boise City, Idaho, has "writ a pome" entitled "That Man Brann," and the proud author sends me an A.P.A. paper containing his production. It is an excellent composition—of its kind; and I am gratified to learn that it has at least gravitated to its proper level. Some six months ago a commercial traveller sent me substantially ...

— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... to say that if you'd left me alone," he said. "I was jus' thinkin'. I've got to think sometimes. I can't say off a great long pome like that without stoppin' to think sometimes, can I? I'll—I'll do a conjuring trick for you instead," he burst out, desperately. "I've learnt one from my book. I'll go an' ...

— More William • Richmal Crompton

Words linked to "Pome" : pear, fruit