pot valiant

Made courageous or valiant by pot-walloper, *pot-wabbler, s. 1. A name given to parliamentary voters in certain English boroughs, previous to the Reform Act of 1832, in which all male inhabitants, whether householders or lodgers, who had resided in the borough and had boiled their own pot, i . e., procured their own subsistence, for six months, and had not been chargeable to any parish as paupers for twelve months, were entitled to a vote. 2. A kitchen maid; one who cleans pots; a scullion. ( Slang .) marine; gō, põt, IMG:content-1396.png:[blocks in formation] *1. To drink, to tipple. ( Slang .) "It is le labor to plow than to pot it."- Feltham : 2. To shoot or fire persistently; to keep on shoot IMG:content-1397.png:[blocks in formation] ally compre ed, legs short, toes not webbed, the animal being propelled through the water by strokes of the powerful tail; the limbs are folded inward and backward in swimming. Fur, dark- brown above, with a metallic violet hue; whitish beneath. pot-a-mô-găl-i-dæ, s . pl . [Modern Lat. pot a- mogal(e); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idæ .] *pot-a-gre, s. [PODAGRA.] The gout. "For slouthe a potagre and a goute." MS. Ashmole, 41, fo. 37. IMG:content-1398.png:[blocks in formation] pot-a-mo-ge-ton, subst . [Latin potamogeton, pot a mog it on ; Greek potamogeiton =pondweed (see def.); potamos a river, and geit on =a neighbor.] 1. Botany : Pondweed; the typical genus of the tribe Potamese (q. v.). Flowers perfect, se ile, on a spike, with a simple spathe. Perianth single; stamens four. Ovary of four carpels. Drupes or achenes four, rarely one; small, green. Chiefly from the temperate zones. Known species about fifty. They are found in ponds, ditches, streams, the margins of lakes, ., having the leaves sub- merged and translucent, or floating and opaque. P. natans, P. lucens. P. crisp us , P. dens us , and P. oblong us are among the most common. The root of P. natans is said to be eaten in Siberia. P. crisp us , P. gramineus , and P. lucens are used in India as fodder, and the first two also for refining sugar. 2. Palæobot.: Found in the Miocene and the Plio- IMG:content-1399.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1400.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia the salt di olving in 2.85 parts of water at 15.5°; is slightly soluble in strong alcohol, but wood spirit di olves it more readily. It forms crystallizable double salts with most the metallic chlorides.