Pot

pot, n. a metallic ve el for various purposes, esp. for cooking: a drinking ve el: an earthen ve el for plants: the quantity in a pot: ( slang ) a large sum of money, a prize.— v.t. to preserve in pots: to put in pots: to cook in a pot: to plant in a pot: to drain, as sugar, in a perforated cask: to shoot an enemy.— v.i. ( Shak. ) to tipple:— pr.p. pot′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. pot′ted. — n. Pot′-ale , refuse from a grain distillery.— adj. Pot′-bell′ied , having a prominent belly.— ns. Pot′-bell′y , a protuberant belly; Pot′-boil′er , a work in art or literature produced merely to secure the nece aries of life; Pot′-boy , a boy in a public-house who carries pots of ale to customers; Pot′-comp an′ion , a comrade in drinking; Pot′-hang′er , a hook on which to hang a pot; Pot′-hat , a high-crowned felt hat, worn by men; Pot′-head , a stupid person; Pot′herb , any vegetable which is boiled and used as food.— n.pl. Pot′-holes , holes in the beds of rapid streams, made by an eddying current of water, which gives the stones a gyratory motion.— ns. Pot′-hook , a hook hung in a chimney for supporting a pot: a letter shaped like a pot-hook; Pot′-house , an ale-house; Pot′-hunt′er , one who hunts or fishes for profit; Pot′-lid , the cover of a pot; Pot′-liq′uor , a thin broth in which meat has been boiled; Pot′-luck , what may happen to be in the pot for a meal without special preparation; Pot′-man , a pot-companion: a pot-boy; Pot′-met′al , an alloy of copper and lead; Pot′-shop , a small public-house; Pot′-stick , a stick for stirring what is being cooked in a pot; Pot′stone , a ma ive variety of talc-schist, composed of a finely felted aggregate of talc, mica, and chlorite.— adj. Pot′-val′iant , brave owing to drink.— Potted meats , meats cooked, seasoned, and hermetically sealed in tins or jars.— Go to pot , to go to ruin, originally said of old metal, to go into the melting-pot; Keep the pot boiling , to procure the nece aries of life; Take pot-luck , to accept an invitation to a meal where no preparation for guests has been made. [M. E. pot , from the Celt., as Ir. pot a , Gael. poit , W. pot. ]