pout2 (pout)

[ 2. A pouter pigeon. See pouter1, 2. pout3 (pout), n. [A reduction of poult. The LG. and G. pute are prob. Florio, p. 181. ( Hall i well.) As soon's the cloak in' [brooding] time is by, An' the wee pouts begin to cry. Burns , Epistle to John Rankine. 2. Figuratively, a young girl; a sweetheart. [Scotch.] The Squire, returning, mist his poute , And was in unco rage, ye needna doubt. Ro 's Helenore, p. 93. ( Jamie son . ) 2. Violence; violent attack. Thow hast ben warned ofte With poustees of pestilences, with pouerte and with angres. Piers Plowman (B), xii. 11. In poustt, in one's power; hence, po ible. Yef it were in poste , he wolde it not haue do for all the reme of grete Breteigne, for sore he dredde oure lorde. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 610. pou sto (pö stō). [Gr. ποῦ στῶ: ποῦ, where; στῶ, 1st pers. sing. second aor. subj. of ἱστάναι, set, place, stand: see stand.) A place to stand; a basis of operations, either physical or metaphysical. According to Diogenes Laertius, Arch i me des said, "Give me where I may stand (ποῦ στῶ), and with a lever I could move the world." She perhaps might reap the applause of Great, Who learns the one pou sto whence after-hands May move the world. Tennyson , Prince , iii.