| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| pontificate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | Also (less commonly): pontify to speak or behave in a pompous or dogmatic manner |
| 2. | to serve or officiate as a pontiff, esp in celebrating a Pontifical Mass |
| —n | |
| 3. | the office or term of office of a pontiff, now usually the pope |