pos, posie, poisee

[A contraction of poesy (q. v.).] 1. A poetical motto or quotation attached to or inscribed on anything, as on a ring. "Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?"- Shakesp .: Hamlet , iii. 2. 2. A short inscription or legend. "There was also a super scrip cion or poisee written on the toppe of the cro e."- Udall : Luke xxiii. "Below the composer's mark, and distinctly of the pot boiling order."-London Daily Telegraph.