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Potluck

Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.

Potoo

A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).

Potoroo

Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.

Potpie

A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

Potpourri

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.

Potsherd

A piece or fragment of a broken pot.

Potstone

A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

Pott

A size of paper. See under Paper.

Pottage

A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.

Pottassic

Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.

Potter

To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.

Pottern

Of or pertaining to potters.

Pottery

The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

Pottle

A liquid measure of four pints.

Potto

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.

Pouch

To put or take into a pouch.

Pouch-shell

A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).

Pouched

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.

Pouchong

A superior kind of souchong tea.

Poudrette

A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.

Pouffe Pouf

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.

Poulaine

A long pointed shoe. See Cracowes.

Poulard

A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening; hence, a fat pullet.

Poult

A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.

Poultice

To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.

Poultry

Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

Pounce

To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.

Pounced

Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle.

Pouncing

The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.

Pound

A certain specified measure of mass or weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.

Pound-breach

The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.

Poundage

Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.

Poundal

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.

Poundcake

A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.

Pounder

One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.

Pounding

The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.

Poundrate

A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.

Pour

A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.

Pourpoint

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.

Pousse-cafe

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.

Poussette

To perform a certain movement in a dance.

Pout

The European whiting pout or bib.

Pouter

One who, or that which, pouts.

Poverty

The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

Powder

To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.

Powder-posted

Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.

Powdered

Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

Powderflask

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

Powdery

Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.

Powen Powan

A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or Coregonus ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

Power

Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.

power-dive power dive

To cause (an airplane) to make a power dive; as, he power-dived his plane to escape the attackers.

Powerable

Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.

Powerful

Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.

Powerless

Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.

Powwow

To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.

Pox

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Poy

A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.

Poyntel

Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.

Poyou

A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also sixbanded armadillo.

Pozzolana Pozzuolana

Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.

Praam

A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.

Practicability

The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.

Practicable

That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Practical

Of or pertaining to practice or action.

Practicality

The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.

Practically

In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.

Practice

To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.

Practiced

Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman.

Practicer

One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.

Practician

One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

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