Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 102
Potichomanie (n.) The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware.
Potion (n.) A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine. -- Shak.
Potion (v. t.) To drug. [Obs.] -- Speed.
Potion (n.) A medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage.
Potlid (n.) The lid or cover of a pot.
Potlid valve, A valve covering a round hole or the end of a pipe or pump barrel, resembling a potlid in form.
Potluck (n.) Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.
A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on. -- G. Eliot.
To take potluck, To take what food may chance to be provided.
Potluck (n.) Whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all; "having arrived unannounced we had to take potluck"; "a potluck supper".
Potmen (n. pl. ) of Potman
Potman (n.) A pot companion. [Obs.] -- Life of A. Wood (1663).
Potman (n.) A servant in a public house; a potboy.
Potman (n.) A worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores [syn: potboy, potman].
Potoo (n.) (Zool.) A large South American goatsucker ({Nyctibius grandis).
Compare: Kangaroo rat
Kangaroo rat (n.) (Zool.) A jumping rodent of the genus Dipodomys of the family Heteromyidae, which lives in arid regions of Mexico and the western U. S.
Kangaroo rat (n.) (Zool.) An Australian mammal of the genus Notomys.
Kangaroo rat (n.) (Zool.) A small ratlike Australian kangaroo of the genus Potorous, also called the potoroo.
Potoroo (n.) (Zool.) Any small
kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of
Australia and
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Potpie (n.) A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.
Potpie (n.) Deep-dish meat and vegetable pie or a meat stew with dumplings.
Potpourri (n.) A medley or mixture. Specifically:
Potpourri (n.) A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together.
Potpourri (n.) A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room.
Potpourri (n.) A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley.
Potpourri (n.) A literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.
Potpourri (n.) A collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley].
Potpourri (n.) A musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources [syn: medley, potpourri, pastiche].
Potpourri (n.) A jar of mixed flower petals and spices used as perfume.
Potsdam group (Geol.) A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.
Potshard (n.) Alt. of Potshare
Potshare (n.) A potsherd. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Potsherd (n.) A piece or fragment of a broken pot. -- Job ii. 8.
Potsherd (n.) A shard of pottery.
Potsherd, () A "shred", i.e., anything severed, as a fragment of earthenware (Job 2:8; Prov. 26:23; Isa. 45:9).
Potstone (n.) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.
Pot-sure (a.) Made confident by drink. [Obs.]
Pott (n.) A size of paper. See under Paper.
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.
Pottage (n.) A stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat.
Pottage (n.) Thick (often creamy) soup [syn: potage, pottage].
Pottage, () Heb. nazid, "boiled", a dish of boiled food, as of lentils (Gen. 25:29; 2 Kings 4:38).
Pottain (n.) Old pot metal. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Compare: Poteen
Poteen, Potheen (n.) Whisky; especially whisky distilled in a small way privately or illicitly by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potteen.]
Potteen (n.) See Poteen.
Compare: Pother
Pother (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Pothered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pothering.] To harass and perplex; to worry. "Pothers and wearies himself." -- Locke.
Pother (n.) 喧擾；騷動；塵霧；煩惱 Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. [Written also potter, and pudder.] "What a pother and stir!" -- Oldham. "Coming on with a terrible pother." -- Wordsworth.
Pother (v. i.) （使）煩惱 To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
Pother (n.) An excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap].
Pother (v.) Make upset or troubled.
Pother (v.) Make a fuss; be agitated [syn: dither, flap, pother].
Potter (n.) 陶工；陶藝家 [C] One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. -- Ps. ii. 9.
The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. -- Longfellow.
Potter (n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] -- De Quincey.
Potter (n.) One who pots meats or other eatables.
Potter (n.) (Zool.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
Potter's asthma (Med.), Emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. -- Parkers.
Potter's clay. See under Clay.
Potter's field, A public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in -- Matt. xxvii. 7.
Potter's ore. See Alquifou.
Potter's wheel, A horizontal revolving disk on which the clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. "My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel." -- Shak.
Potter wasp (Zool.), A small solitary wasp ({Eumenes fraternal) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larv[ae], such as cankerworms, as food for its young.
Pottered (imp. & p. p.) of Potter
Pottering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Potter
Potter (v. i.) To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.
Syn: putter; pother.
Pottering about the Mile End cottages. -- Mrs. Humphry Ward.
Potter (v. i.) To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
Potter (v. t.) To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Compare: Terrapin
Terrapin (n.) [Probably of American Indian origin.] (Zool.) 【動】（北美）水龜（可食用） Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food. [Written also terapin, terrapen, terrapene, turpen, and turapen.
Note: The yellow-bellied terrapin ({Pseudemys scabra) of the Southern United States, the red-bellied terrapin ({Pseudemys rugosa or Chrysemys rubriventris), native of the tributaries Chesapeake Bay (called also potter, slider, and redfender), and the diamond-back or salt-marsh terrapin ({Malaclemmys palustris), are the most important American species.
The diamond-back terrapin is native of nearly the whole of the Atlantic coast of the United States.
Alligator terrapin, The snapping turtle.
Mud terrapin, Any one of numerous species of American tortoises of the genus Cinosternon.
Painted terrapin, The painted turtle. See under Painted.
Speckled terrapin, A small fresh-water American terrapin ({Chelopus guttatus) having the carapace black with round yellow spots; -- called also spotted turtle.
Potter (n.) A craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln [syn: potter, thrower, ceramicist, ceramist].
Potter (v.) Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" [syn: putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around].
Potter (v.) Work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the garden" [syn: potter, putter].
Potter (v.) Move around aimlessly [syn: putter, potter, potter around, putter around].
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "potter": beguile the time, burn daylight, ceramicist, ceramist, consume time, coquet, dabble, dally, dally away, diddle, diddle away, doodle, dribble away, drivel away, enamelist, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around, fool away, fool with, footle, fribble, fritter away, fritter away time, frivol, glass cutter, glassblower, glazer, horse around, idle, idle away, jerk off, kid around, kill time, loiter, lose time, meddle with, mess, mess around, monkey, monkey around, muddle away, pass the time, piddle, piss away, play, play around, play with, potter away, puddle, putter, pyroglazer, smatter, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, trifle away, trifle with, twiddle, waste time, while away.
Potter -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 113546
Housing Units (2000): 44598
Land area (2000): 909.243256 sq. miles (2354.929123 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 12.736659 sq. miles (32.987793 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 921.979915 sq. miles (2387.916916 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 35.257052 N, 101.842212 W
Headwords:
Potter
Potter, TX
Potter County
Potter County, TX
Potter -- U.S. County in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 18080
Housing Units (2000): 12159
Land area (2000): 1081.165247 sq. miles (2800.205016 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.249836 sq. miles (0.647072 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1081.415083 sq. miles (2800.852088 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.785251 N, 77.912536 W
Headwords:
Potter
Potter, PA
Potter County
Potter County, PA
Potter -- U.S. County in South Dakota
Population (2000): 2693
Housing Units (2000): 1760
Land area (2000): 866.488172 sq. miles (2244.193968 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 31.940201 sq. miles (82.724737 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 898.428373 sq. miles (2326.918705 sq. km)
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 45.049614 N, 99.929979 W
Headwords:
Potter
Potter, SD
Potter County
Potter County, SD
Potter, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 223
Housing Units (2000): 80
Land area (2000): 0.527706 sq. miles (1.366752 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.527706 sq. miles (1.366752 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64675
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.118544 N, 88.095467 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Potter, WI
Potter
Potter, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 390
Housing Units (2000): 170
Land area (2000): 0.488129 sq. miles (1.264248 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.488129 sq. miles (1.264248 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39870
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.217830 N, 103.314788 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 69156
Note:
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Potter, NE
Potter
Pottern (a.) Of or pertaining to potters.
Pottern ore, A species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. -- Boyle.
Potteries (n. pl. ) of Pottery.
Pottery (n.) The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.
Pottery (n.) The place where earthen vessels are made.
Pottery (n.) Ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln [syn: pottery, clayware].
Pottery (n.) The craft of making earthenware.
Pottery (n.) A workshop where clayware is made.
Pottery, () The art of, was early practised among all nations. Various materials seem to have been employed by the potter. Earthenware is mentioned in connection with the history of Melchizedek (Gen. 14:18), of Abraham (18:4-8), of Rebekah (27:14), of Rachel (29:2, 3, 8, 10). The potter's wheel is mentioned by Jeremiah (18:3). See also 1 Chr. 4:23; Ps. 2:9; Isa. 45:9; 64:8; Jer. 19:1; Lam. 4:2; Zech. 11:13; Rom. 9:21.
Potting (n.) Tippling. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Potting (n.) The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.
Potting (n.) The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining. [West Indies] -- B. Edwards.
Pottle (n.) A liquid measure of four pints.
Pottle (n.) A pot or tankard. -- Shak.
A dry pottle of sack before him. -- Sir W. Scott.
Pottle (n.) A vessel or small basket for holding fruit.
He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. -- Dickens.
Pottle draught, Taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Pottle (n.) A pot that holds 2 quarts.
Compare: Kinkajou
Kinkajou (n.) [F. kinkajou, quincajou, from the native American name.] (Zool.) A nocturnal carnivorous mammal ({Cercoleptes caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family ({Cercoleptid[ae]) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear.
Potto (n.) (Zool.) A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog.
Potto (n.) The kinkajou.
Potto (n.) Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail [syn: kinkajou, honey bear, potto, Potos flavus, Potos caudivolvulus].
Potto (n.) A kind of lemur [syn: potto, kinkajou, Perodicticus potto].
Pott's disease (Med.) Caries of the vertebrae, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, An English surgeon.
Pott's fracture, A fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. -- Dunglison.
Compare: Rachialgia
Rachialgia (n.) (Med.) A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.
Potulent (a.) Fit to drink; potable. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Potulent (a.) Nearly drunk; tipsy. [Obs.]
Pot-valiant (a.) Having the courage given by drink. -- Smollett.
Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.
Pot-walloper (n.) One who cleans pots; a scullion. [Slang, U. S.]
Pouch (n.) A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
Pouch (n.) That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as:
Pouch (n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
Pouch (n.) (Zool.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
Pouch (n.) (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid. -- S. Sharp.
Pouch (n.) (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
Pouch (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
Pouch mouth, A mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
Pouched (imp. & p. p.) of Pouch.
Pouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pouch.
Pouch (v. t.) To put or take into a pouch.
Pouch (v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls. -- Derham.
Pouch (v. t.) To pout. [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.
Pouch (v. t.) To pocket; to put up with. [R.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Pouch (n.) A small or medium size container for holding or carrying things.
Pouch (n.) An enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" [syn: pouch, sac, sack, pocket].
Pouch (n.) (Anatomy) Saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) [syn: pouch, pocket].
Pouch (v.) Put into a small bag.
Pouch (v.) Send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels.
Pouch (v.) Swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" [syn: bulge, pouch, protrude].
Pouched (a.) (Zool.) Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat.
Pouched (a.) (Zool.) Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher.
Pouched (a.) (Zool.) Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels.
Pouched dog. (Zool.) See Zebra wolf, under Zebra.
Pouched frog (Zool.), The nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage.
Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Zool.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket.
Pouched mouse. (Zool.) See Pocket mouse, under Pocket.
Pouched (a.) Having a pouch.
Pouchet box () See Pouncet box.
Pouch-mouthed (a.) Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.
Pouchong (n.) A superior kind of souchong tea. -- De Colange.
Pouch-shell (n.) (Zool.) A small British and American pond snail ({Bulinus hypnorum).
Poudre (n.) Dust; powder.
Poudrette (n.) A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.
Poulaine (n.) A long pointed shoe. See Cracowes.
Pouldavis (n.) Same as Poledavy.
Poulder (n. & v.) Powder.
Pouldron (n.) See Pauldron.
Poulp (n.) Alt. of Poulpe
Poulpe (n.) Same as Octopus.
Poult (n.) A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.
Poulter (n.) A poulterer.
Poulterer (n.) One who deals in poultry.
Poultice (n.) A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.
Poulticed (imp. & p. p.) of Poultice.
Poulticing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poultice.
Poultice (v. t.) To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.
Poultive (n.) A poultice.
Poultry (n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
Poultry (n.) (pl.) 家禽 Birds, such as chickens, that are bred for their eggs and meat.
// Some poultry farmers keep turkeys and ducks as well as chickens.
Poultry (n.) [ U ] 禽肉 The meat from birds such as chickens.
Pounce (n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
Pounce (n.) Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.
Pounded (imp. & p. p.) of Pounce.
Pouncing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pounce.
Pounce (v. t.) To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.
Pounce (n.) The claw or talon of a bird of prey. -- Spenser. Burke.
Pounce (n.) A punch or stamp. [Obs.] "A pounce to print money with." -- Withals.
Pounce (n.) Cloth worked in eyelet holes. [Obs.] -- Homilies.
Pounce (v. t.) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons. [Archaic]
Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren. -- Cowper.
Now pounce him lightly, And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper. -- J. Fletcher.
Pounce (v. t.) To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Elyot.