(plural only) The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.

(countable, originally chiefly Scotland) A poor person. / (obsolete) Synonym of poor cod.

(transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. / (intransitive, obsolete) To become poor. / (obsolete) To call poor.

A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.

(intransitive, of a liquid) To form a pool.

(games, uncountable) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.

(transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.

plural of pool

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pool

Onomatopoeia indicating a small explosion with a cloud of smoke; as caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance.