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▪ I. pome, n.1|pəʊm|
(Also in comb. 5 powm(e, 6 poum, 6–7 pom.)
[a. OF. pome (F. pomme):—late L. or Romanic *pōma apple, orig. pl. of L. pōmum ‘fruit’, later, ‘apple’.]
1. A fruit of the apple kind or resembling an apple; now only poet. an apple. † Punical pome, pomegranate: = Apple Punic (apple n. 3).
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 742 Ox dong aboute her roote if that me trete, The pomes sadde & braune wil hit gete. c1430Lydg. Ballad Commend. our Lady 121 O punical pome ayens al pestilence. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 22 A taste..of wholsome cytron pome. 1729Evelyn's Sylva ii. v. 154 They have sometimes produced a pretty small Pome. 1839Bailey Festus xxvii. (1851) 466 Like her of old, ere dropped the golden pome.
b. Bot. A succulent inferior fruit, consisting of a firm fleshy body formed of the enlarged calyx, inclosing two or more few-seeded carpels (rarely only one) of cartilaginous or bony texture, forming the core: as an apple, pear, quince, haw, etc.
1816Keith Phys. Bot. II. 160 In the pear the pome tapers down gradually to the point of insertion. 1853in Pharmac. Jrnl. XIII. 14 The fruit is a small black pome.
†2. The heart or head of a cabbage, cauliflower, or broccoli. (F. pomme.) Obs.
1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 178 When their heads, and pomes are formed, if you perceive any of them ready to run to seed, draw the plant half out of the ground. 1664― Kal. Hort. Aug. (1729) 213 Cauly-flowers over-speeding to pome and head.
3. transf. A ball or globe, especially of metal; the royal globe or ball of dominion = golden apple (apple n. 6); see also quot. 1866.
a1400Morte Arth. 3355 And syne profres me a pome pighte fulle of faire stonys..In sygne þat I sothely was souerayne in erthe. 1579Inv. R. Wardr. (1815) 293 A belt with..ane pome garnissit with perll. 1814Southey Roderick xviii. 131 Where was the rubied crown, the sceptre where, And where the golden pome. 1866Direct. Angl. (ed. 3) 257 Pome, a round ball of silver or other metal; which is filled with hot water, and is placed on the altar in winter months to prevent danger or accident with the chalice, from the hands of the priest becoming numb with cold.
†4. Fortif. The rounded projecting shoulder of a bastion. Obs.
1598Barret Theor. Warres v. i. 125 The parts of a Bulwarke are..the Orecchion or Pome, or gard, or shoulder. 1598Florio, Orecchione, that part of a bulwarke which is called by some the pome, guard, or shoulder.
†5. = pomander 1. rare.
1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 146 Precyus invnctment, salve, or fragrant pome.
6. Comb., as pome-bearing, pome-shaped adjs.; † pome-adam [in F. pomme d'Adam = mod.L. pomum Adami] = Adam's apple 1, lime-fruit; † pome-paradise [cf. F. pomme de paradis (Cotgr. 1611)], a sweet kind of apple, = paradise apple a, honey-apple b; † pome-quince, ? an apple-shaped variety of quince; † pome-warden, ? = pome-pear. See also pome-citron, etc.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xxvi. 482 As for *pome-adams [Fr. orig. pommes d'Adam] they are round, twise or thrise as great, as orenges.
1901G. Nicholson's Dict. Gard., Cent. Suppl. 645/2 R[osa] pomifera (*pome-bearing). Great Apple Rose.
1601Holland Pliny II. 164 The *Pome-Paradise, or hony Apples called Melimela. 1611Cotgr., Passe-pomme, the Pome-paradice, Honny-apple, or Honny-meale; (an apple thats quickly ripe, and quickly rotten). 1658Phillips, Pome-paradice, a fruit called a John-apple.
1601Holland Pliny II. 105 A liniment of it and *Pome-quinces or Peare-quinces, easeth the head-ach.
1895Syd. Soc. Lex., Pomiform, *pome-shaped.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 605 Other more comon fruytes: as costardes, wardens, *pomewardons, richardons, damysyns, and plummes.
▪ II. pome, n.2|pəʊm|
A jocular alteration of ‘poem’.
1861G. Meredith Let. 16 Aug. (1970) I. 100 Did you get the Pome I sent? 1897A. R. Marshall (title) Pomes from the Pink 'un. 1927Joyce (title) Pomes Penyeach. 1959News Chron. 12 Aug. 4/5 My next pome,..is dedicated to a very fine poet. 1975A. Coren Further Bull. Pres. Idi Amin 7 Come on out, John Milton!..wot about dis year's jumbo pome you lazy bum?
▪ III. † pome, v. Obs.
[ad. F. pommer, f. pomme: see pome n.1]
intr. To form a close compact head or heart, as a cabbage, lettuce, etc.; to head, to heart.
1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 175 There is another sort of cabbage..they seem to me the most natural of all the rest; for they pome, close to the ground. 1699― Acetaria (1729) 150 Lettuce ty'd close up, Pome and Blanch of themselves. 1727S. Switzer Pract. Gard. iii. xxiii. 130 The time of sowing the chief of the Brassica's, especially those that pome or cabbage. |
