Definition of Pondages

1. pondage [n] - See also: pondage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pondages

pond-apple tree
pond-scum parasite
pond-skater
pond-skaters
pond apple
pond bald cypress
pond cypress
pond damselfly
pond fracture
pond hockey
pond lily
pond pine
pond scum
pond turtle
pondage
pondages (current term)
ponded
ponder
ponderabilities
ponderability
ponderable
ponderal
ponderal index
ponderance
ponderary
ponderation
ponderations
ponderative
pondered
ponderer

Literary usage of Pondages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... of 'pondages, I, II. and III. The three T fifth and sixth somites. following the mouth. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"pondages have been in use from the earliest ages, and their application is now called for every day in surgical practice for the purposes of compression, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... such as most sea-anemones, the tentacles or prehensile ap pondages are so arranged as to simulate, when not ti. > closely inspected, the petals of ..."

4. The Chinese by John Francis Davis (1851)
"... side a variety of accoutrements, which we strike a stranger as being of a warlike character, which prove, on examination, to be very peaceful pondages. ..."

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