Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ponder

Ponder , transitive verb

[Latin ponderare, from pondus, ponderis, a weight, from pendere to weigh: compare French pondérer. See Pendant, and compare Pound a weight.]

1.
To weigh. [Obsolete]
2.
To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.
Ponder the path of thy feet. — Bible (KJV) - Proverb iv. 26

Ponder , intransitive verb

To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over. — Longfellow