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See poust. powting-clotht, n. A kerchief for the head or neck. gula. 4664 Thackeray , Catharine. When all other means fail to recover their sick, they send for their Pawaw or Priest, who, sitting down by them, expects a Fee, and works accordingly, calling sometimes on one God, sometimes on another, beating his naked breast till he sweat and be almost out of breath. Hist., Geog., etc., Dict., ed. Collier, 2d ed. (1701), s. v. [New York. Let them come if they like, be it sagamore, sachem, or Long fellow, Miles Standish, i. pow- wow. Many a church member saw I, walking behind the music, that has danced in the same measure with me when Somebody was fiddler, and, it might be, an Indian pow wow or a Lapland wizard changing hands with us! Hawthorne , Scarlet Letter, xxii. ( b ) A conjuration performed for the cure of diseases. (c) A dance, feast, or other public celebration preliminary to a grand hunt, a council, a war expedition, or some similar undertaking. Hence-2. Any uproarious meeting or conference; a meeting where there is more noise than deliberation. [Colloq., U. S.] powwow (pou'wou), v. i. [ the cure of diseases and for other purposes. And if any shall hereafter Powwow, both he that shall Powwow, & he that shall procure him to Powwow, shall pay 20s. apeесе. T. Shepard, Clear Sunshine of the Gospel, p. 5. The Angekok of the tribe [of Esquimaux)... prescribes or pow - wows in sickne and over wounds. Kane, Arctic Explorations, xliii. Hence-2. To hold a consultation; deliberate over events. [Colloq., U. S.] We would go to the cave and pow - wow over what we had done. S. L. Clemens, Huckleberry Finn, iii. The young bucks, having had insufficient rations, are now out hunting for game. When they can, they will come in and pow - wow with Generals Sheridan and Miles. New York Herald. 3. To hold any noisy meeting. [Colloq., U. S.] pox (poks), n. [An irreg. spelling and adaptation of pocks, pl. of pock: see pock1.] A disease characterized by eruptive pocks or pustules upon the body. As used by the writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the word generally means smallpox, but also, and especially in later use, the French pox, or syphilis. See chicken - pox, smallpox, syphilis. In al the Ilandes of this Arch i pela gus rayneth the disease of saynt Iob (whiche wee caule the frenche poxe ) more then in any other place in the worlde. R. Eden, tr. of Antonio Pigafetta (First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 260). Pozzo. of the curbs or heads of the cisterns which are filled with water from the neighboring mainland; a well-curb: a common abbreviation of vera di pozzo.