potgunt (potgun)

1. A popgun. Bryng with thee my potgunne, hangyng by the wall. Udall, Roister Doister, iv. 7. They are but as the potguns of boys. Bp. Hall , Honour of Married Clergy, p. 148. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0742.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0743.png:[ocr errors] potheen (po-thēn'), n. Same as poteen . pot-hellion (pot'hel"ion), n. A large pie made of beef, pork, potatoes, and onions baked in a pan. [Gloucester, Ma achusetts.] IMG:content-0744.png:[blocks in formation] pot-hole (pot'hōl), n. A cavity more or le nearly cylindrical in form, and from a few inches to several feet in depth and diameter, made by an eddying current of water, which causes a stone or a collection of detrital material to re- volve and thus wear away the rock with which it is in contact. Such pot-holes are common, especially in and near the beds of streams running over bare rocks, and under glaciers, in regions of present or past glacia rapid current of water. A group of pot-holes, some of which are of great size, is one of the curiosities of Lucerne in Switzerland (the "Glacier Garden"), where they appear to have been made at the time of the former greater exten- sion of the glaciers in the Alpine range: also called giants ' kettles. The large conical or more rarely pot-shaped cavi- ties formed by water in the chalk and other limestone rocks of England and the United States are called, besides Pins, points, and laces, Poting sticks for young wines, for young wenches gla es, Ware of all sorts, which I bore at back. Heywood , If you Know not Me (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, 2. A short bar or rod of iron, usually curved, and with a hook at the end, used to lift hot pots, irons, or stove-lids from a stove.-3. A letter, 1); an elementary character consisting of a stroke terminating in a curve, practised upon by children in learning to write; hence, any irregular, straggling written character. Also pot - hanger . Pothooks and hangers. See hanger . Pothos (po'thos), n . [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), potha , a native name in Ceylon.] A genus of plants, of the order Araceæ , type of the tribe Pothoideæ , characterized by an ovary with three cells, each with one ovule, a large embryo without albumen, and a spathe enlarging after flowering. It includes about 29 species, natives of Asia, the Pacific islands, Australia, and Madagascar. They are shrubby climbers, fastening themselves by rooting branch- es below and more spreading above. When grown under gla , they often adhere, perfectly flat, to damp vertical wooden surfaces, forming a sinuous upward line with the leaves facing the horizon. The leaves are two-ranked, ob- lique, and usually ovate or narrower, sometimes replaced by a broad leaf-like petiole (phyllodium). The small green reflexed spathe is ovate or shell-shaped, and contains a ing small close or scattered flowers above, each with short or roundish spadix, sometimes twisted or bent, bear- six-parted perianth. pot-hunter (pot'hun"ter), n . One who hunts or fishes for profit, regardle of close seasons, the waste of game, or the pleasure to be de- rived from the pursuit. Sportsman's Gazetteer . Poachers and pot - hunters are encouraged [in Rumania), that they may keep the tables of their friends in office well supplied with game. W. W. Greener , The Gun, p. 570. pot-hunting (pot'hun"ting), n. The act or practice of hunting for the sake IMG:content-0745.png:[blocks in formation] On his return he again called the people together and them at that time great curiosities. held a big potlatch , giving the Indians what appeared to Amer . Antiquarian , XII. 75. Black-lead or graphite: pot-lead (pot'led), n. as, a pot - lead crucible. [The word is now used chiefly of graphite in stove-polish applied to the hulls of racing- yachts below the water-line to diminish the friction of the water by giving a smooth surface.] pot-lead (pot'led), v . t. [ pot - lead , n.] Το coat with pot-lead: as, to pot - lead a yacht. pot-leecht (pot'lech), n. One who sucks at the pot; hence, one who drinks to exce ; a drunkard. This valiant pot - leach , that upon his knees Has drunke a you sand pottles up-se-freese. pot-lid (pot'lid), n. 1. The lid or cover of a pot. -2. A concretion occurring in various sand- stones and shales, especially those of different parts of the Jura ic series. [In this sense properly potlid .] - Pot-lid valve. See valve . The liquor in which The Chinese have an original and effective manner of pot - hunting after Wild-fowl. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 575. poticaryt, n. An aphetic form of apothecary . potiche (F. pron. po-tēsh'), п . [F., pot , pot: see pot1 .] A vase or jar of rounded form and short neck, with or without a cover. The shape usually denoted by this term approaches more or le that of an in- verted truncated cone below, finished above in a hemispheroidal form, and with a cylindrical neck. potichomania (pot"i-kō-ma'ni- ), n . [Also potichomanie , ; potiche , a kind of pot (see potiche ), + L. mania , madne .] Cheap deco- ration, consisting in coating a gla ve el with paintings on paper or linen, the interstices being filled with opaque paint, potin (F. pron. pō-tan'), n. [F., potin , po- tain , pote in , pott in , a mixed metal (see def.), pot , pot: see potl , n . Cf. putty .] A mixed met- al, consisting of copper, zinc, lead, and tin, of which certain coins of ancient Gaul were com--2. Same as pot - metal gla (which see, under posed. The term is sometimes, though incorrectly, ap- plied by numismatists to some ancient coins (for example, those of Alexandria) of mixed metal into the composition of which some silver enters: such coins should be called billon . type). Anthurium , and Culeasia are in cultivation for their potinger, n. handsome leaves. See Calla , 1, Acorus , Orontium , and Symplocarpus for important genera native in the United poting-stickt, potometer (pō-tom'e-ter), n. [ pov , measure.] An instrument for measuring the amount of water absorbed by a transpiring plant in a given time. F. Darwin . potoo (po-tö), n. [Jamaican; imitative.] A caprimulgine bird, Nyctibius jam a i cens is . pot-paper (pot'pā" per bearing the figure of a pot as a water-mark. See pot1 , n ., 9. pot-pie (pot'pi), п. 1. A pie made by lining the inner surface of a pot or pan with pastry and filling it with meat, as beef, mutton, fowl, ar fowl. etc., seasoning it, and then baking.-2. baking.-2. A dish of stewed meat with pieces of steamed pastry or dumplings served in it; a frica ee of meat with dumplings. [U. S.] pot-piecet (pot'pēs), n. Same as potgun , 2. pot-plant (pot'plant), n . 1. Any plant grown in a pot.-2. The pot-tree, pot-tre or monkey-pot tree. See Lecythis and pot -tree. pot-plate (pot'plāt), n. A plate of Chinese porcelain, or of some fine European faience, in the decoration of which appears a vase, basket, or the like, of broad rounded form, usually very conventional. potpourri (pō-pö-rē'), n. [Formerly also pot porrid (Cotgrave); pot - pourri , pot , pot, + pourri , pp. of pourrir , putrere , rot: see pu- trefy. Cf. equiv. olla podrida .] 1. A dish of different kinds of meat and vegetables cooked together; a stew. Hence - 2. A miscellane- ous collection; a medley. Specifically - (a) A mix- ture of the dried petals of rose-leaves or other flowers with spices and perfumes. It is usually kept in jars for its fragrance. (b) An incense for burning, made of a mixture of gums, seeds, and the like, recipes for which were highly valued, especially in the eighteenth cen- tury. (c) Same as potpourri - jar . (d) Same as medley . (e) A lit- erary composition consisting of parts put together without unity or bond of connection.-Pot- pourri-jar, a covered jar or vase for holding potpourri. (See def. 2 (a).) Rich jars of the enameled pottery of the eighteenth century having covers are often called by this name. potrack (pot-rak), v . i. [Imitative.] To cry as a guinea-fowl. [Rare.] Mr. Ben Allen and Mr. Bob Sawyer betook themselves to a sequestered pot - shop on the remotest confines of the Borough. Dickens , Pickwick, lii. pot-shot1 (pot's hot), n. 1. A shot taken for the purpose of filling the pot, little heed being paid to skill in shooting or to the preservation of the appearance of the animal. Shooting flying was not an ordinary accomplishment: it was just coming in, and most people took pot shots , and would not risk shooting at a bird on the wing. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, II. 327. pot-shot2+ (pot's hot), a. Drunk; fuddled with drink. And being mad perhaps, and hot pot - shot , A crazed crowne or broken pate hath got. John Taylor , Works (1630). ( Nares .) pot-sickt (pot's ik), a. Intoxicated; tipsy. Flo- rio rio , p. 68. pot-stick (pot's tik), n. [Early mod. E. pot- stycke , potstyk ; pot1 + stick .] A stick for stirring porridge, etc. The next had in her hand a sword, another a club, an- other a pot - sticke . Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 195. pot-still (pot's til), n . A still to which heat is applied directly as to a pot, in contra dis- tinct i on to one heated by a steam-jacket. See potstone (pot's ton), n. 1. A concretion or ma of flint, of a pear-shaped form, and hav- ing a central cavity pa ing through the longer axis. These concretions occur in the chalk, singly or in vertical rows like columns, at irregular distances from each other, but usually from 20 to 30 feet apart. They were formerly particularly conspicuous near Horstead, about six miles from Norwich, England, in a quarry, now closed, where they were mostly pear-shaped, and about 3 feet in height and 1 foot in diameter. Their origin is not easily explained. 2. Same as soapstone or steatite . pot-suret (pot'shör), a. Full of confidence through drink; cock-sure. When these rough gods beheld him thus secure, And arm'd against them like a man pot - sure , They stint vain storms; and so Mon str if era pottt, n. An obsolete spelling of potl . pottage (pot'aj), n. [ potage , po- tage , pottage, F. potage (= Sp. potaje = P Pg . tagem = It. potaggio , pottaggio ), porridge, soup, pot , pot: see pot1 .] 1. A dish consisting of meat boiled to softne in water, usually with vegetables; meat-broth; soup. Though a man be falle in jalous rage, Let maken with this water his potage , And never shal he more his wyf mistriste. Blow not thy Pottage nor Drinke, For it is not commendable. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 79. Jacob sod pottage : and Esau came from the field, and he was faint. Gen. xxv. 29. Thei have not, in many places, nouther Pesen ne Benes, ne non other Potages , but the Brothe of the Fle che. Mandeville , Travels, p. 250. pottage-waret, n. [ME. potage ware ; pottage + ware2.] Pottage-herbs; pulse. Nowe potage ware in askes mynge & kepe In oilbarelles or salt tubbes doone. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 160. pottaint (pot'an), n . [ potain , pot-metal: pot-roast (pot'rōst), n . Meat (generally beef) cooked in a pot with a little water, and allowed see potin .] Same as pot - metal , 1. to become brown as if roasted. [Local, U. S.] potteen, n. See poteen . pot-setting (pot's et"ing), п. In gla - manuf ., pottenger, n. See pottinger. the operation of placing in their proper pos i potter1 (pot'er), n . [= D. potter , a hoarder, = tion in the furnace pots which have previously MLG. potter , LG. pottjer = G. pötter , potter; potsharet, n. Same as potsherd . potsheent, n. Same as poteen . Mi Edge worth, Absentee, x. potshell (pot's hel), n. A potsherd. Harper's Mag ., LXXIX. 248. OF. potier, F. potier , a potter, pot , pot: see pot1.] 1. One whose occupation is the making of pots or earthenware ve els of any kind. We are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand. Isa. lxiv. 8. 2. One who peddles earthenware or crockery. [Prov. Eng.] Rough potters seemed they, trading soberly, With paniered a es driven from door to door. Words worth, Guilt and Sorrow, xlvi. 3. One who pots meats, vegetables, etc.-4. A fresh-water clemmyoid turtle, Deirochelys ser- rata , of the United States.-5. The slider, or takes the place of papyrus. Amer . Jour . Philol ., VIII. 508. pot-shop (pot's hop), n. A small public house. [Slang.] slider. [Local, U. S.] - Potters' clay. (a) A clay used for ordinary earthenware, and of some shade of brown, red, or yellow after burning. (6) In a larger sense, any earth used in the ceramic art, including kaolin, a so-called blue IMG:content-0746.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0747.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0748.jpg:[graphic] potter2 (pot'er), v . [Also putter , dial. (Sc.) рои- ter, pudder ; cf. D. poteren , peuteren , poke, pry, search; freq. of pote , and secondarily of put1 , push: see pote , put1.] I. in trans. 1. To be busy in doing little, or what is of little or no practical value; busy one's self over trifles; trifle; work with little energy or purpose. [Colloq.] His servants stayed with him till they were old and George Eliot , Adam Bede, xvii. eled directly from life, and painted in close imitation of nature. (b) Imitations of the true Pali y ware, made by modern manufacturers, and often extremely succe ful, so as to be deceptive. - Peasant pottery. See peasant . Persian pottery, pottery made in Persia, of several kinds, including an extremely hard and semi-translucent sort, which is probably an artificial porcelain. The ware commonly known as Persian is (a) a coarse brown paste with a white enamel, upon which flowers, scrolls, etc., are painted in vivid colors, and covered with a silicious glaze, and (b) a ware of similar composition with figures in relief and similarly decorated. Each of these two sorts has sometimes a copper luster, and it is not uncommon for pieces otherwise alike to differ in having more or le luster, so that it seems that the luster is not in all cases an important object with the decorator. Rhodian, Da- mascus, and Anatolian wares are often cla ed as Persian. potting (pot'ing), n. [Verbal n. of pot1 , v .] 1. In hort ., the transfer of plants from beds or benches to flower-pots, or from one pot to an- other.-2. The operation of putting up cooked and seasoned meats in pots, where they are pre- served by the action of the salt, spices, etc., with which they are prepared, and by the exclusion of air.-3. In sugar - manuf ., the act or operation of transferring raw sugar from the crystallizing- pans to perforated casks. Ure , Dict., III. 942.- 4. In sulphuric - acid manuf . , the placing of pots containing either pota ium nitrate or sodium nitrate and sulphuric acid in the kilns used for the manufacture of sulphuric acid from sul- phurous acid obtained from the combustion of sulphur in air. The decomposition of the nitrate by the sulphuric acid supplies nitric acid, by which the sul- phurous acid is oxidized into sulphuric acid, nitrogen be- ing set free in the proce . See sulphuric acid , under sul- phuric . – Quimper pottery, pottery made at Quimper, in the department of Finistère, France, especially enameled faience made from 1650 and throughout the eighteenth century. The style of decoration is usually very similar to that of either Nevers or Rouen, according to the time. - Rhodian pottery, pottery made in the Isle of Rhodes. This pottery is similar in decoration to Persian and Da- mascus ware, but is distinguished from it by a somewhat bolder decoration and more brilliant colors, and by the more frequent use of enamel color put on so thickly as to remain in slight relief. In material and character, this ware is similar to the Persian. Also called Lindus pot- tery , from the town of Lindus, now called Lindo, a sea- port of the isle. - Roman pottery, pottery made in the city of Rome since the tenth century; especially-( a ) a variety of Italian majolica marked as being made in Rome, of which but few pieces are known to exist; and (b) a white- glazed earthenware, of which the factory was established by Volpato the engraver, about 1790, and was continued by his sons and others. Figures and groups were made of this ware. The color of the pieces varies from pure white through different shades of buff to a sort of stone-color.- Rouen pottery, pottery made at Rouen in Normandy, especially that made during the seventeenth century and later: an enameled faience of excellent make and fine fin- ish, and decorated generally in excellent taste, according to the style of the day. The chief varieties, considered with regard to the decoration, are-( a ) that ornamented with scrolls and arabesques of grayish blue on a bluish- white ground, the ground thickly covered with the orna- ment, which is generally disposed with great skill, so as to be effective both near at hand and at a distance; (b) that painted in full color with bouquets and single flowers, and more rarely with figure-subjects in medallions, the ground of this variety being generally of a purer white; and (c) that in which the two preceding styles are mingled, the dark- blue scrolls alternating with bouquets and festoons in color, and the ground of the enamel bluish. There are also exceptional varieties, as that closely imitating Chinese painting on porcelain, and that in which carefully made white enameled pieces are decorated only by a coat of arms, or a device or emblem in imitation of an effective Italian style. Rough-cast pottery, a pottery whose sur- face is roughened by being dusted, before being fired, with pottery either in small fragments or pounded fine, or with small bits of dry clay. In most cases the ve el is dipped in thin slip before being fired.-Semi-porcelain pot- tery, a name given to pottery of a fine body made at the Royal China Works at Worcester about 1850: an excellent ware for table-services and the like, hard, very perfectly vitrified, and white throughout the paste. - Sevres pot- tery, pottery made at Sèvres near Paris-either ( a ) at the National Porcelain Factory, which at different epochs has potting-house (pot'ing-hous), n. A house in potting-cask (pot'ing-kåsk),n. In sugar - manuf ., a cask vat used for draining mola es from im- perfectly crystallized sugar. It has holes in the bottom, into each of which is inserted an end of a crushed stalk of sugar-cane, which is long enough to reach to the top of the sugar. The mola es drains off through the po- rous channels which these stalks afford, leaving the pro- duct much drier and more perfectly crystallized. pottinger, pottenger (pot'in-jèr, -en-jer), n . [Also (in def. 2) potinger, potenger ; with in- serted n as in pa enger , me enger , etc., for * pottager , potager , a pottage-maker, potage , pottage: see pottage . Cf. porringer . ] 1. A pottage-maker; a cook. [Obsolete or archaic.] produced a limited number of pieces of enameled faience, or (b) at private factories, of which there have been a num- ber at different times since about 1775. Compare Sèvres porcelain , under porcelain1 . Sicilian pottery, a name given to certain varieties of lustered ware akin to the His- pano-Moresque, and with decoration frequently resem- bling Damascus pottery. The names Siculo - Arabian and Siculo - Moresque have been given to the above, and some attempt has been made to distinguish between these two alleged varieties. The pieces offered for sale in the towns of Sicily are roughly decorated in a style similar to that which is not hard-baked. The is that it be easily scratched with an iron point. All common flower-pots are of soft pottery; but there are many kinds of pottery much softer, some of which can be cut with a knife.- Unglazed pottery, earthenware made by modeling the ve el in clay, and firing it without the addition of a glaze. Ordinary flower-pots, terra-cotta, and common bricks are instances of unglazed pottery. - Up church pottery, a name given to the ancient pottery found in the Up church marshes in Kent, and also to that found elsewhere which appears to have come from that region. In a district five or six miles long many ancient kilns and immense quant i- ties of this pottery have been found. The ware is gray or black, more rarely brownish-red, generally thin, and well made. It is undoubtedly of the Roman period. - Varages pottery, pottery made at Varages, in the department of Var, France, beginning about 1730. It is an enameled faience whose decoration imitates that of other factories, especially that of Moustiers. There were many potters engaged in this manufacture, whose work it is not po i- ble to distinguish. (See thrown - ware .) pottery-bark tree. See Licania . pottery-ti ue (pot'er-i-tish"ö), n. In ceram . , a thin paper used in transfer-printings for tak- ing the impre ion of the engraved plate and transferring it to the biscuit. See transfer- printing. pottery-tree (pot'ér-i-trē), n. 1. See caraipi. -2. Same as pottery - bark tree. pottery-ware (pot'er-i-war), n. Same as pot- tery , 1. Pottia (pot'i-a), n. [NL. (Ehrhart), after J. F. Pott , a German botanist.] A genus of brya- ceo us mo es, the type of the tribe Pottieæ . They are small annual or biennial plants, growing on new- ly exposed soil, with entire obovate-oblong or obovate- I haue be cook in here kychene and the couent serued Meny monthes with hem and with monkes bot he. Ich was the prior e e potager . which plants are potted. potting-stick (pot'ing-stik), n. with a blunt end, used by gardeners, in potting plants, for compacting the earth in the space between the roots or ball of the plant and the sides of the pot. pottle (pot'l), n. [ potel , potel , a little pot, dim. of pot , pot: see potl .] 1. A liquid measure of two quarts; the contents of such a measure; hence, a measure of wine or other beverage; any large tankard; a pot. Go brew me a pottle of sack finely. He calls for a pottle of Rhenish wine, And dranke a health to his queene. Robin Hood and Queen Katherine (Child's Ballads, V. 313). Certain Canes as bigge as a mans legge, which between the knots contained a pottle of water, extracted from the dewes. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 877. Put them [ant-flies] into a gla that will hold a quart or a pottle . I. Walton , Complete Angler, р. 184. pottle-bellied (pot'l-bel"id), a . pottle-bodied (pot'l-bod"id), a . bellied . A something- pottle - bodied boy, That knuckled at the taw. IMG:content-0749.png:[blocks in formation] pottle-bottlet, n. A bottle holding two quarts, duction of the commoner wares only. Jewitt, or a pottle. II. i. Item, j payre of pottell botellys of one sorte. Item, j. nother potell bottell . pottle-deep (pot'l-dēp), a. Paston Letters , I. 488. As deep as the pot tle; to the bottom of the pottle. Now, my sick fool Roderigo, Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out, To Des demon a hath to-night caroused Potations pottle - deep . Shak ., Othello, ii. 3. 56. pottle-draught (pot'l-draft), n . The drinking of a pottle of liquor at one draught; hence, a deep draught. [Prov. Eng.]