Posy (n.) A flower; a bouquet; a 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.
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.
Pot (n.) A size of paper. See Pott.
Potted (imp. & p. p.) of Pot
Potting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pot
Pot (v. t.) To place or inclose in pots
Pot (v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.
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.
Pot (v. t.) To pocket.
Pot (v. i.) To tipple; to drink.
Potable (a.) Fit to be drunk; drinkable.
Potable (n.) A potable liquid; a beverage.
Potableness (n.) The quality of being drinkable.
Potage (n.) See Pottage.
Potager (n.) A porringer.
Potagro (n.) See Potargo.
Potale (n.) The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.
Potamian (n.) 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.) The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.
Potance (n.) The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
Potargo (n.) A kind of sauce or pickle.
Potash (n.) 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).
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.) 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 (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