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One who teaches or practices artificial attitudes or postures of the body. post-ure, v. t. & i. [POSTURE, 8.] IMG:content-1393.png:[blocks in formation] re 1. Founding: A crucible. Graphite pots are most generally in use. 2. Paper : A size of paper, 121⁄2 inches by 15 in the sheet, and weighing 10 lbs. to the ream. 3. Sugar: [POTTING-CASK.] 4. Tinning: (1) A ve el filled with melted tallow in which the charcoal-iron plates are dipped before tinning; a grease-pot. (2) A bath used in the same work, known as a wash-pot. To go to pot : To be ruined, destroyed, or wasted. The meaning is probably to be put into the melting pot, as old metal, to be melted down; probably pot here is the same as Por (2), s.=pit, and the meaning to be to go to the pit of destruction. "All's one, they go to pot." Dryden: Tempest . (Epil.)