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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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Etymology of 'Pome'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pome" Quotes from Famous Books

... home And will not let me pull a pome About the Parthians, fierce and rough, The Scythian war, and ...

— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams

... code, volume, tome, Book, writing, compilation, work Attend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... metropolis, because of the temple therein to be built, and keep a festival for eight days, and offer burnt-offerings, and sacrifice thank-offerings, that we should then carry in our hands a branch of myrtle, and willow, and a bough of the palm-tree, with the addition of the pome citron: That the burnt-offering on the first of those days was to be a sacrifice of thirteen bulls, and fourteen lambs, and fifteen rams, with the addition of a kid of the goats, as an expiation for sins; and on the following days the same number of lambs, and of rams, ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... writ a pome 'bout him onct. Sold it and we lived high—for a week. Sure as you live! It was called 'Chance of the Concher.' Gee Gosh! I thought it was jest one ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

Words linked to "Pome" : apple, fruit, false fruit, quince