pourveyance

[PURVEYANCE.] *poushe, s . [Fr. poche .] A pimple, a pustule, a push. põu , pouse, poos, subst . [A corrupt. of push (q. v.).] To push. ( Scott : Old Mortality , ch. xiv.) põu , pouse, s. [Pou , v.] A push. *pou e, s . [A corrupt. of PULSE (2), s.) Pulse, pease. "Which over the pou e he the ward doth post." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar ; August . pôus-sette', s. [Fr.] A figure, or part of a fig ure, in a country dance. põus-sětte', v. i. [POUSSETTE, 8.] To swing round in couples, as in a country dance. 'Dance, Regan, dance, with Cordelia and Goneril, Down the middle, up again, pou ette , and cro . J. & H. Smith: Punch's Apotheosis. pôus-siě, s . [PUSSY.] A cat, a hare. pous-te, *pous-tee, s. [O. Fr. poeste , from Lat. potestatum, acc us. of potestas = power.] Power, might. pout (1), s. [A corrupt. of poult (q. v.).] 1. A young fowl, a chicken; a young partridge or moor-fowl. "Of wild birds, Cornwall hath quail, wood-dove, heathcock, and pout ."-Carew: Survey of Cornwall. 2. A child.