Pot
[pɒt] or [pɑt]
Definition
(noun.) metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid.
(noun.) street names for marijuana.
(noun.) a container in which plants are cultivated.
(noun.) slang for a paunch.
(noun.) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker).
(noun.) the quantity contained in a pot.
(verb.) plant in a pot; 'He potted the palm'.
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Definition
(n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.
(n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
(n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
(n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
(n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
(n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
(n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.
(n.) A size of paper. See Pott.
(v. t.) To place or inclose in pots
(v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.
(v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
(v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
(v. t.) To pocket.
(v. i.) To tipple; to drink.
Editor: Whitney
Definition
n. a metallic vessel for various purposes esp. for cooking: a drinking vessel: an earthen vessel for plants: the quantity in a pot: (slang) a large sum of money a prize.—v.t. to preserve in pots: to put in pots: to cook in a pot: to plant in a pot: to drain as sugar in a perforated cask: to shoot an enemy.—v.i. (Shak.) to tipple:—pr.p. pot′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. pot′ted.—n. Pot′-ale refuse from a grain distillery.—adj. Pot′-bell′ied having a prominent belly.—ns. Pot′-bell′y a protuberant belly; Pot′-boil′er a work in art or literature produced merely to secure the necessaries of life; Pot′-boy a boy in a public-house who carries pots of ale to customers; Pot′-compan′ion a comrade in drinking; Pot′-hang′er a hook on which to hang a pot; Pot′-hat a high-crowned felt hat worn by men; Pot′-head a stupid person; Pot′herb any vegetable which is boiled and used as food.—n.pl. Pot′-holes holes in the beds of rapid streams made by an eddying current of water which gives the stones a gyratory motion.—ns. Pot′-hook a hook hung in a chimney for supporting a pot: a letter shaped like a pot-hook; Pot′-house an ale-house; Pot′-hunt′er one who hunts or fishes for profit; Pot′-lid the cover of a pot; Pot′-liq′uor a thin broth in which meat has been boiled; Pot′-luck what may happen to be in the pot for a meal without special preparation; Pot′-man a pot-companion: a pot-boy; Pot′-met′al an alloy of copper and lead; Pot′-shop a small public-house; Pot′-stick a stick for stirring what is being cooked in a pot; Pot′stone a massive variety of talc-schist composed of a finely felted aggregate of talc mica and chlorite.—adj. Pot′-val′iant brave owing to drink.—Potted meats meats cooked seasoned and hermetically sealed in tins or jars.—Go to pot to go to ruin originally said of old metal to go into the melting-pot; Keep the pot boiling to procure the necessaries of life; Take pot-luck to accept an invitation to a meal where no preparation for guests has been made.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a pot, foretells that unimportant events will work you vexation. For a young woman to see a boiling pot, omens busy employment of pleasant and social duties. To see a broken or rusty one, implies that keen disappointment will be experienced by you.
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Examples
- Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I got a drum and went over to the potato farm and sprinkled it on the vines with a pot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The hole at the bottom of the lowest was covered with a small pot, into the sides of which had been bored a number of holes. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It's no use plying him with wide words like Expenditure: I wouldn't talk of phlebotomy, I would empty a pot of leeches upon him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was like a shallow pot lying among the stone and snow of the upper world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The pint-pots were great strokes of genius: but the milk-can was a perfect masterpiece. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is said that in 1664 Sir John Winter of England made coke by burning sea coal in closed pots. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such things ye do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Spects they's gwine to trade ye off with a lot o' cracked tea-pots and sich like! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Pots are used containing the materials to be melted and not heated in the presence of the burning fuel, but by the heated gases in separate compartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Beats the chimbley-pots, Sir,' replied Mr. Weller, touching his hat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He'll brak his shins agean some o' yer pots, and tables, and stuff. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It appears to me to be a most important matter that soup meat, and meat for potting and stewing, should be sent to this country in the way I propose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Nearly all the plants experimented on by Gartner were potted, and were kept in a chamber in his house. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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