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Post"-dis*sei"zin (?), n. [Pref. post- + disseizin.] (O. Eng. Law) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.
Post`-dis*sei"zor (?), n. [Pref. post- + disseizor.] (O. Eng. Law) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.
||Post"e*a (?), n. [L., after these or those (things), afterward.] ||(Law) The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a ||verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is indorsed on the nisi ||prius record. Wharton.
Pos"tel (?), n. Apostle. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Post`en*ceph"a*lon (?), n. (Anat.) The metencephalon.
Post"en*try (?), n. [Pref. post- + entry.] 1. A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.
2. (Bookkeeping) An additional or subsequent entry.
Post"er (?), n. 1. A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.
2. One who posts bills; a billposter.
Post"er, n. 1. One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier. "Posters of the sea and land." Shak.
2. A post horse. "Posters at full gallop." C. Lever.
Pos*te"ri*or (ps*t"r*r), a. [L. posterior, compar. of posterus coming after, from post after. See Post-.] 1. Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior.
Hesiod was posterior to Homer.
Broome.
2. Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.
3. (Anat.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.
4. (Bot.) On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower. Gray.
Pos*te`ri*or"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. postÈrioritÈ.] The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
Pos*te"ri*or*ly (?), adv. Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
Pos*te"ri*ors (?), n. pl. The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.
Pos*ter"i*ty (?), n. [L. posteritas: cf. F. postÈritÈ. See Posterior.] 1. The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham.
If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity.
Shak.
2. Succeeding generations; future times. Shak.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
Shak.
Their names shall be transmitted to posterity.
Smalridge.
Pos"tern (?), n. [OF. posterne, posterle, F. poterne, fr. L. posterula, fr. posterus coming after. See Posterior.] 1. Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
He by a privy postern took his flight.
Spenser.
Out at the postern, by the abbey wall.
Shak.
2. (Fort.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan.
Pos"tern, a. Back; being behind; private. "The postern door." Dryden.
Pos"te*ro- (&?;). A combining form meaning posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side.
Post`ex*ist" (?), v. i. [Pref. post- + exist.] To exist after; to live subsequently. [Obs. or R.]
Post`ex*ist"ence (?), n. Subsequent existence.
Post`ex*ist"ent (?), a. Existing or living after. [R.] "Postexistent atoms." Cudworth.
Post"fact` (?), a. [See Post-, and Fact.] Relating to a fact that occurs after another.
Post"fact`, n. A fact that occurs after another. "Confirmed upon the postfact." Fuller.
||Post`fac"tum (?), n. [LL.] (Rom. & Eng. Law) Same as Postfact.
Post"-fine` (?), n. [Pref. post- + fine.] (O. Eng. Law) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.
Post"fix (?), n.; pl. Postfixes (#). [Pref. post- + -fix, as in prefix: cf. F. postfixe.] (Gram.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix. Parkhurst.
Post*fix" (?), v. t. To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix. Parkhurst.
Post*fron"tal (?), a. [Pref. post- + frontal.] (Anat.) Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals. -- n. A postfrontal bone.
||Post*fur"ca (?), n.; pl. PostfurcÊ (#). [NL., fr. post behind + furca ||a fork.] (Zoˆl.) One of the internal thoracic processes of the ||sternum of an insect.
Post*gen"i*ture (?; 135), n. [Pref. post- + L. genitura birth, geniture.] The condition of being born after another in the same family; -- distinguished from primogeniture. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Post*gle"noid (?), a. [Pref. post- + glenoid.] (Anat.) Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.
Post`haste" (?), n. Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.
Post`haste, adv. With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste. Shak.
Pos*thet"o*my (?), n. [Gr. po`sqh prepuce + te`mnein to cut.] (Med.) Circumcision. Dunglison.
Post"house` (?), n. 1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.
2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
{ Post"hume (?), Post"humed (?), } a. Posthumous. [Obs.] I. Watts. Fuller.
Post"hu*mous (?; 277), a. [L. posthumus, postumus, properly, last; hence, late born (applied to children born after the father's death, or after he had made his will), superl. of posterus, posterior. See Posterior.] 1. Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.
2. Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition.
3. Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation. Addison. Sir T. Browne.
Post"hu*mous*ly, adv. In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.
Pos"tic (?), a. [L. posticus, fr. post after, behind.] Backward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Pos"ti*cous (?), a. [L. posticus.] (Bot.) (a) Posterior. (b) Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.
Pos"til (?), n. [F. postille, apostille, LL. postilla, probably from L. post illa (sc. verba) after those (words). Cf. Apostil.] 1. Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment.
Langton also made postils upon the whole Bible.
Foxe.
2. (R. C. Ch. & Luth. Ch.) A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.
Pos"til, v. t. [Cf. LL. postillare.] To write marginal or explanatory notes on; to gloss. Bacon.
Pos"til, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Postiled (&?;) or Postilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Postiling or Postilling.] To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate.
Postiling and allegorizing on Scripture.
J. H. Newman.
Pos"til*er (?), n. [Written also postiller.] One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin. Sir T. Browne.
Pos*til"ion (?), n. [F. postillon, It. postiglione, fr. posta post. See Post a postman.] One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used. [Written also postillion.]
Pos"til*late (?), v. t. [LL. postillatus, p. p. of postillare.] To explain by marginal notes; to postil.
Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand.
C. Knight.
Pos"til*late, v. i. 1. To write postils; to comment.
2. To preach by expounding Scripture verse by verse, in regular order.
Pos`til*la"tion (?), n. [LL. postillatio.] The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.
Pos"til*la`tor (?), n. [LL.] One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.
Pos"til*ler (?), n. See Postiler.
Post"ing (?), n. 1. The act of traveling post.
2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.
Posting house, a post house.
Post`li*min"i*ar (?), a. [See Postliminium.] Contrived, done, or existing subsequently. "Postliminious after applications of them to their purposes." South.
Post`li*min"i*a*ry (?), a. Pertaining to, or involving, the right of postliminium.
{ ||Post`li*min"i*um (?), Post*lim"i*ny (?), } n. [L. postliminium, post after + limen, liminis, a threshold.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.
2. (Internat. Law) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged. Kent.
Post"lude (?), n. [Pref. post- + -lude, as in prelude.] (Med.) A voluntary at the end of a service.
Post"man (?), n.; pl. Postmen (&?;). 1. A post or courier; a letter carrier.
2. (Eng. Law) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman. Whishaw.
Post"mark` (?), n. The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.
Post"mark`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postmarked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Postmarking.] To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.
Post"mas`ter (?), n. 1. One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
2. One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
Post"mas`ter-gen"er*al (?), n.; pl. Postmasters-general. The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
Post"mas`ter*ship, n. The office of postmaster.
Post`me*rid"i*an (?), a. [L. postmeridianus; post after + meridianus. See Meridian.] 1. Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)
2. Fig., belonging to the after portion of life; late. [R.]
||Post-mor"tem (?), a. [L., after death.] After death; as, post-mortem ||rigidity.
Post-mortem examination (Med.), an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.
||Post*na"res (?), n. pl. [NL. See Post-, and Nares.] (Anat.) The ||posterior nares. See Nares.
Post*na"tal (?), a. [Pref. post- + natal.] After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.
Post"nate (?), a. [LL. postnatus second or subsequently born; L. post after + natus born.] Subsequent. "The graces and gifts of the spirit are postnate." [Archaic] Jer. Taylor.
Post" note` (?). (Com.) A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.
Post*nup"tial (?), a. [Pref. post- + nuptial.] Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. Kent.
{ Post-o"bit (?), n., or Post-o"bit bond` }. [Pref. post- + obit.] (Law) A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.
||Post*ob`lon*ga"ta (?), n. [NL. See Post-, and Oblongata.] (Anat.) The ||posterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.
Post*oc"u*lar (?), a. & n. [Pref. post- + ocular.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Postorbital.
Post" of`fice (?), n. See under 4th Post.
Post*o"ral (?), a. [Pref. post- + oral.] (Anat.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.
Post*or"bit*al (?), a. [Pref. post- + orbital.] (Anat. & Zoˆl.) Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. -- n. A postorbital bone or scale.
Post"paid` (?), a. Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.
Post*pal"a*tine (?), a. [Pref. post- + palatine.] (Anat.) Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones.
Post*pli"o*cene (?), a. (Geol.) [Pref. post- + pliocene.] Of or pertaining to the period immediately following the Pliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.
Post*pone" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postponed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Postponing.] [L. postponere, postpositum; post after + ponere to place, put. See Post-, and Position.] 1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.
His praise postponed, and never to be paid.
Cowper.
2. To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.
All other considerations should give way and be postponed to this.
Locke.
Syn. -- To adjourn; defer; delay; procrastinate.
Post*pone"ment (?), n. The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay. Macaulay.
Post*pon"ence (?), n. [From L. postponens, p. pr.] The act of postponing, in sense 2. [Obs.] Johnson.
Post*pon"er (?), n. One who postpones.
Post*pose" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postposed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Postposing.] [F. postposer. See Post-, and Pose, v. t.] To postpone. [Obs.] Fuller.
Post*pos"it (?), v. t. [L. postpositus, p. p. See Postpone.] To postpone. [Obs.] Feltham.
Post`po*si"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. postposition. See Postpone.] 1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the verb." Mede.
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2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from preposition.
Post`po*si"tion*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to postposition.
Post*pos"i*tive (?), a. [See Postpone.] Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. - - Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
Post*pran"di*al (?), a. [Pref. post- + prandial.] Happening, or done, after dinner; after- dinner; as, postprandial speeches.
Pos*tre`mo*gen"i*ture (?; 135), n. [L. postremus last + genitura birth, geniture.] The right of the youngest born. Mozley & W.
Post`re*mote" (?), a. [Pref. post- + remote.] More remote in subsequent time or order.
Post"rid`er (?), n. One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.
||Post*scap"u*la (?), n. [NL. See Post-, and Scapula.] (Anat.) The part ||of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.
Post*scap"u*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the postscapula; infraspinous.
||Post*sce"ni*um (?), n. [L., fr. post + scena a scene.] The part of a ||theater behind the scenes; the back part of the stage of a theater.
Post*scribe" (?), v. t. [L. postscribere. See Postscript.] To make a postscript. [R.] T. Adams.
Post"script (?), n. [L. postscriptus, (assumed) p. p. of postscribere to write after; post after + scribere to write: cf. F. postscriptum. See Post-, and Scribe.] A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer. [Abbrev. P. S.]
Post"script*ed, a. Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [R.] J. Q. Adams.
||Post`scu*tel"lum (?), n. [NL. See Post-, and Scutellum.] (Zoˆl.) The ||hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate ||behind the scutellum.
Post*sphe"noid (?), a. [Pref. post- + sphenoid.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the posterior part of the sphenoid bone.
Post-tem"po*ral (?), a. [Pref. post- + temporal.] (Anat.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n. A post-temporal bone.
Post*ter"ti*a*ry (?), a. [Pref. post- + tertiary.] (Geol.) Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.
||Post"-tra`gus (?), n. [NL. See Post-, and Tragus.] (Anat.) A ridge ||within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.
Post`-tym*pan"ic (?), a. [Pref. post- + tympanic.] (Anat.) Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.
Pos"tu*lant (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. postulans, p. pr. of postulare. See Postulate.] One who makes a request or demand; hence, a candidate.
Pos"tu*late (?), n. [L. postulatum a demand, request, prop. p. p. of postulare to demand, prob. a dim. of poscere to demand, prob. for porcscere; akin to G. forschen to search, investigate, Skr. prach to ask, and L. precari to pray: cf. F. postulat. See Pray.] 1. Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.
2. (Geom.) The enunciation of a self- evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem.
The distinction between a postulate and an axiom lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be self-evident, while the former may be agreed upon between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but not as proposition which it would be impossible to deny.
Eng. Cyc.
Pos"tu*late, a. Postulated. [Obs.] Hudibras.
Pos"tu*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Postulating.] 1. To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions.
2. To take without express consent; to assume.
The Byzantine emperors appear to have . . . postulated a sort of paramount supremacy over this nation.
W. Tooke.
3. To invite earnestly; to solicit. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
Pos"tu*la`ted (?), a. Assumed without proof; as, a postulated inference. Sir T. Browne.
Pos`tu*la"tion (?), n. [L. postulatio: cf. F. postulation.] The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.
Pos"tu*la*to*ry (?), a. [L. postulatorius.] Of the nature of a postulate. Sir T. Browne.
||Pos`tu*la"tum (?), n.; pl. Postulata (#). [L. See Postulate, n.] A ||postulate. Addison.
Pos"tu*mous (?), a. See Posthumous. [R.]
Pos"tur*al (?; 135), a. Of or pertaining to posture.
Pos"ture (?; 135), n. [F., fr. L. positura, fr. ponere, positum, to place. See Position.] 1. The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.
Atalanta, the posture of whose limbs was so lively expressed . . . one would have sworn the very picture had run.
Sir P. Sidney.
In most strange postures We have seen him set himself.
Shak.
The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his heroes in the performance of such or such an action.
Dryden.
2. Place; position; situation. [Obs.] Milton.
His [man's] noblest posture and station in this world.
Sir M. Hale.
3. State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.
The several postures of his devout soul.
Atterbury.
Syn. -- Attitude; position. See Attitude.
Pos"ture (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Posturing.] To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model. Howell.
Pos"ture, v. i. 1. To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.
2. Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.
Pos`tur*er (?), n. One who postures.
||Post*zyg`a*poph"y*sis (?), n.; pl. Postzygapophyses (#). [NL. See ||Post- , and Zygapophysis.] (Anat.) A posterior zygapophysis.
Po"sy (?), n.; pl. Posies (#). [Contr. fr. poesy.] 1. A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring. "The posy of a ring." Shak.
2. [Probably so called from the use of flowers as having an enigmatical significance. Wedgwood.] A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay. "Bridegroom's posies." Spenser.
We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies.
Swift.
Pot (?), n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.] 1. 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.
2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. "Give her a pot and a cake." De Foe.
4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
7. A perforated cask for draining sugar. Knight.
8. A size of paper. See Pott.
Jack pot. See under 2d Jack. -- Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage. -- Pot companion, a companion in drinking. -- Pot hanger, a pothook. -- Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. -- Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. -- Pot metal. (a) The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron. (b) An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts. Ure. (c) A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot. Knight. -- Pot plant (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot. -- Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria. -- To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] Dryden. J. G. Saxe.
Pot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Potted; p. pr. & vb. n. Potting.] To place or inclose in pots; as: (a) To preserve seasoned in pots. "Potted fowl and fish." Dryden. (b) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs. (c) 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. B. Edwards. (d) (Billiards) To pocket.
Pot, v. i. To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
It is less labor to plow than to pot it.
Feltham.
Po"ta*ble (?), a. [F., fr. L. potabilis, fr. potare to drink; akin to Gr. po`tos a drinking, po`sis a drink, Skr. p to drink, OIr. ibim I drink. Cf. Poison, Bib, Imbibe.] Fit to be drunk; drinkable. "Water fresh and potable." Bacon. -- n. A potable liquid; a beverage. "Useful in potables." J. Philips.
Po"ta*ble*ness, n. The quality of being drinkable.
Pot"age (?; 48), n. See Pottage.
Pot"a*ger (?), n. [F. fr. potage soup, porridge. See Pottage.] A porringer. [Obs.] Grew.
Po*tag"ro (?), n. See Potargo.
Pot"ale` (?), n. The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.
Po*ta"mi*an (?), n. [Gr. &?; river.] (Zoˆl.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.
Pot`a*mog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?; river + -graphy.] An account or description of rivers; potamology.
Pot`a*mol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; river + -logy.] A scientific account or discussion of rivers; a treatise on rivers; potamography.
||Pot`a*mo*spon"gi*Ê (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; river + &?; a ||sponge.] (Zoˆl.) The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.
Po"tance (?), n. [F. potence. See Potence, Potency.] (Watch Making) The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.
Po*tar"go (?), n. [Cf. Botargo.] A kind of sauce or pickle. King.