Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 101
Posy (n.) A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay. "Bridegroom's posies." -- Spenser.
We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies. -- Swift.
Posy (n.) An arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present [syn: bouquet, corsage, posy, nosegay].
Pot (n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.
Pot (n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
Pot (n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. "Give her a pot and a cake." -- De Foe.
Pot (n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
Pot (n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
Pot (n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
Pot (n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar. -- Knight.
Pot (n.) A size of paper. See Pott.
Pot (n.) Marijuana. [slang]
Pot (n.) The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang]
Pot (n.) (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet.
Pot (n.) (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the pool.
Jack pot. See under 2d Jack.
Pot cheese, Cottage cheese. See under Cottage.
Pot companion, A companion in drinking.
Pot hanger, A pothook.
Pot herb, Any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others.
Pot hunter, One who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market.
Pot metal. The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron.
Pot metal. An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts. -- Ure.
Pot metal. A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot. -- Knight.
Pot plant (Bot.), Either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot.
Pot wheel (Hydraul.), A noria.
To go to pot, To go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] -- Dryden. -- J. G. Saxe.
Potted (imp. & p. p.) of Pot.
Potting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pot.
Pot (v. t.) To place or inclose in pots; as:
Pot (v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots. "Potted fowl and fish." -- Dryden.
Pot (v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
Pot (v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off. -- B. Edwards.
Pot (v. t.) (Billiards) To pocket.
Pot (v. t.) To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.
When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed. -- Encyc. of Sport.
Pot (v. t.) To secure; gain; win; bag. [Colloq.]
Pot (v. i.) To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
It is less labor to plow than to pot it. -- Feltham.
Pot (v. i.) To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.
Consolation game, match, pot, race, etc. A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.
Pot (n.) Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid.
Pot (n.) A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne].
Pot (n.) The quantity contained in a pot [syn: pot, potful].
Pot (n.) A container in which plants are cultivated [syn: pot, flowerpot].
Pot (n.) (Often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Pot (n.) The cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) [syn: pot, jackpot, kitty].
Pot (n.) Slang for a paunch [syn: pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy].
Pot (n.) A resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets [syn: potentiometer, pot].
Pot (n.) Street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane].
Pot (v.) Plant in a pot; "He potted the palm".
Pot, () Plenty of Torrents.
Potable (a.) 適於飲用的 Fit to be drunk; drinkable. "Water fresh and potable." -- Bacon.
Potable (n.) （常複數）飲料 A potable liquid; a beverage. "Useful in potables." -- J. Philips.
Potable (a.) Suitable for drinking [syn: drinkable, potable] [ant: undrinkable].
Potable (n.) Any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?" [syn: beverage, drink, drinkable, potable].
Potable, (n.) Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific -- and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
Potableness (n.) The quality of being drinkable.
Potage (n.) See Pottage.
Pottage (n.) A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] -- Chaucer.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. -- Gen. xxv. 34.
Potage (n.) Thick (often creamy) soup [syn: potage, pottage].
Potager (n.) A porringer. [Obs.] -- Grew.
Potagro (n.) See Potargo.
Potale (n.) The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.
Potamian (n.) (Zool.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.
Potamography (n.) An account or description of rivers; potamology.
Potamology (n.) A scientific account or discussion of rivers; a treatise on rivers; potamography.
Potamospongiae (n. pl.) (Zool.) The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.
Potance (n.) (Watch Making) The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
Potargo (n.) A kind of sauce or pickle. -- King.
Potash (n.) [U] 碳酸鉀，草鹼；苛性鉀；（工農業上用的）鉀；鉀化合物 The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash.
Potash (n.) The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).
Potash (n.) A potassium compound often used in agriculture and industry [syn: {potash}, {caustic potash}, {potassium hydroxide}]
Potash (n.) [ U ] 鉀鹼，碳酸鉀，草鹼 A white powder containing potassium that is put on soil to make crops grow better.
Potashes (n. pl.) Potash.
Potassa (n.) Potassium oxide.
Potassa (n.) Potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.
Potassamide (n.) A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.
Pottassic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.
Potassium (n.) 【化】鉀 [U] An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).
Potassoxyl (n.) The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.
Potation (n.) The act of drinking.
Potation (n.) A draught.
Potation (n.) Drink; beverage.
Potatoes (n. pl. ) of Potato.
Potato (n.) A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.
Potato (n.) The sweet potato (see below).
Potator (n.) A drinker.
Potatory (a.) Of or pertaining to drinking.
Pot-bellied (a.) Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.
Pot-belly (n.) A protuberant belly.
Potboiler (n.) A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living.
Potboy (n.) A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.
Potch (v. i.) To thrust; to push.
Potch (v. t.) See Poach, to cook.
Potcher (n.) One who, or that which, potches.
Potecary (n.) An apothecary.
Poteen (n.) Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry.
Potelot (n.) Molybdenum sulphide.
Potence (n.) Potency; capacity.
Potency (n.) The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence.
Potent (a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
Potent (a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
Potent (a.) Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
Potent (n.) A prince; a potentate.
Potent (n.) A staff or crutch.
Potent (n.) One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
Potentacy (n.) Sovereignty.
Potentate (a.) One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.
Potential (a.) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
Potential (a.) Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
Potential (n.) Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
Potential (n.) In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.
Potential (n.) The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.
Potentiality (n.) The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
Potentially (adv.) With power; potently.
Potentially (adv.) In a potential manner; possibly, not positively.
Potentiated (imp. & p. p.) of Potentiate.
Potentiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Potentiate.
Potentiate (v. t.) To render active or potent.
Potentiometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.
Potentized (imp. & p. p.) of Potentize.
Potentizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Potentize.
Potentize (v. t.) To render the latent power of (anything) available.
Potently (adv.) With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.
Potentness (n.) The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.
Potestate (n.) A chief ruler; a potentate. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Potestative (a.) Authoritative.
Potgun (n.) A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.
Potgun (n.) A popgun.
Pothecary (n.) An apothecary.
Potheen (n.) See Poteen.
Pother (n.) Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.
Pother (v. i.) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
Pothered (imp. & p. p.) of Pother.
Pothering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pother.
Pother (v. t.) To harass and perplex; to worry.
Pothole (n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.
Pothook (n.) An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.
Pothook (n.) A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing.
Pothouse (n.) An alehouse.
Potichomania (n.) Alt. of Potichomanie.