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General dictionaries General (36 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pound, pound, the pound: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. pound, pound, pound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. pound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. pound: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. Pound, pound: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. pound, pound: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Pound, pound: Wordnik [home, info]
  8. pound, the pound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Pound, pound: Wiktionary [home, info]
  10. pound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. pound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. pound: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  13. pound: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  14. pound (n.1), pound (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  15. Pound, pound: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. pound: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  17. pound, pound: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  18. Pound (band), Pound (currency), Pound (disambiguation), Pound (film), Pound (force), Pound (magazine), Pound (mass), Pound (networking), Pound (surname), Pound (weight), Pound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  19. Pound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  20. pound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  21. pound: Rhymezone [home, info]
  22. pound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  23. pound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  24. Pound: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  25. Pound (Enclosure), Pound: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  26. pound: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  27. pound: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  28. pound: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  29. Pound, pound: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  30. Pound: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  31. Pound: World Wide Words [home, info]
  32. pound: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
  33. pound (n.2): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  34. pound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pound: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
  2. -pound: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]
  3. Pound: Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pound: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Pound: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  3. POUND: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  4. Pound (disambiguation), Pound (unit), pound: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  5. pound: Financial dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pound: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. Pound (disambiguation), Pound (mass), Pound (unit), pound: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pound: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. pound: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. Pound: GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary [home, info]
  4. Pound (disambiguation), Pound (unit), pound: Medical dictionary [home, info]
  5. Pound: Drug Medical Dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pound: Idioms [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pound: Easton Bible [home, info]
  2. Pound: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info]
  3. POUND: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pound: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info]
  2. Pound: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary [home, info]
  3. pound: MATH SPOKEN HERE! [home, info]
  4. pound (lb) [4], pound (lb, lbm, or #) [1], pound (lb t or lb or #) [2], pound (lbf or lb) [3]: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pound: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom [home, info]
  2. pound: The Folk File [home, info]
  3. Pound: 1960's Slang [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pound: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. pound: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (pound)

noun:  a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs ("Unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound")
noun:  United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
noun:  a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
noun:  16 ounces ("He tried to lift 100 pounds")
noun:  the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) ("The pounding of feet on the hallway")
noun:  the basic unit of money in Great Britain; equal to 100 pence
noun:  the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
noun:  the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
noun:  the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
noun:  the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
noun:  the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
noun:  formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
verb:  break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle ("Pound the roots with a heavy flat stone")
verb:  shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits ("The prisoners are safely pounded")
verb:  partition off into compartments ("The locks pound the water of the canal")
verb:  place or shut up in a pound ("Pound the cows so they don't stray")
verb:  hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument ("The salesman pounded the door knocker")
verb:  move rhythmically
verb:  move heavily or clumsily
verb:  strike or drive against with a heavy impact ("Pound on the door")
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #8702)

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