The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash. The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).
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Potash.
Potassium oxide. Potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.
A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.
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).
The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.
The act of drinking.
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. The sweet potato (see below).
A drinker.
Of or pertaining to drinking.
A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living.
A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.
See Poach, to cook.
One who, or that which, potches.
An apothecary.
especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry.
Molybdenum sulphide.
Potency; capacity.
The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence.
A prince; a potentate.
Sovereignty.
One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.
Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
With power; potently.
To render active or potent.
An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.
To render the latent power of (anything) available.
With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.
The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.
A chief ruler; a potentate. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Authoritative.
A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.
An apothecary.
See Poteen.
Whisky; especially whisky distilled in a small way privately or illicitly by the Irish peasantry.
To harass and perplex; to worry.
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.
An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.
An alehouse.
A vase with a separate cover, the body usually rounded or polygonal in plan with nearly vertical sides, a neck of smaller size, and a rounded shoulder.
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.
To drug.
Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.
The lid or cover of a pot.
Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.
A pot companion.
A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).
Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.
A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.
A medley or mixture. A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together. A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room. A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley. A literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.
A potsherd.
A piece or fragment of a broken pot.
A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.
A size of paper. See under Paper.
A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
Old pot metal.
Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.
See Poteen.
To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.
Of or pertaining to potters.
The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.
Tippling.
A liquid measure of four pints.
A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog. The kinkajou.
Fit to drink; potable.
To put or take into a pouch.
Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.
A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).
Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat. Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher. Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels.
A superior kind of souchong tea.
Dust; powder.
A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.
Lit., a puff; A soft cushion, esp. one circular in shape and not, like a pillow, of bag form, or thin at the edges. A piece of furniture like an ottoman, generally circular and affording cushion seats on all sides.
A long pointed shoe. See Cracowes.
A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening; hence, a fat pullet.
Same as Poledavy.
Powder.
See Pauldron.
Same as Octopus.
A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.
A poulterer.
One who deals in poultry.
To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.
A poultice.
Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle.
The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
A certain specified measure of mass or weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.
Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.
A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.
The keeper of a pound.
A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
See Powp.
A puppet, or little baby.
A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.
Poorly.
One who pours.
See Purlieu.
A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
A division; a divided share.
A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
See Purpresture.
See Pursuivant.
See Portray.
See Purveyance.
Pulse; pease.
A drink served after coffee at dinner, usually one of several liqueurs, or cordials, of different specific gravities poured so as to remain separate in layers; hence, such a drink of cordials served at any time.
To perform a certain movement in a dance.
The European whiting pout or bib.
One who, or that which, pouts.
Childish sullenness.
In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.
Poverty.
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
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