pottle-bottle 
pottle-bottlet, . A bottle holding two quarts, 
or a pottle. 
Item, j payre of potteU botellys of one sorte. 
Item, j. nother poteU bottell. I'aston Letter*, 1. 488. 
pottle-deep (pot'l-dep), a. As deep as the pot- 
tle ; to the bottom of the pottle. 
Now. my sick fool Roderigo, 
Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out, 
To Desdemona hath to-night caroused 
Potations pottle-deep. Shak., Othello, li. 3. 56. 
pottle-draught (pot'l-draft), . The drinking 
of a pottle of liquor at one draught; hence, a 
deep draught. [Prov. Eng.] 
pottle-pott (pot'1-pot), . A vessel holding two 
quarts; also, the contents of such a vessel. 
Great rattels gwcllyng bygger than the belly of a jmttalr 
pot. W. Patten , quoted in N. and Q. , 7th ser., V 1. 217. 
-/nil. By the mass, you'll crack a quart together, ha ! 
will you not, Master Bardolph? 
Bard. Yea, air, In a pottle-pot. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 8. J. 
potto (pot'6), . [Also poto ; African (?).] 1. 
A small West African lemuroid quadruped, 
Perodicticus potto. See Perodicticus. 2. The 
kiukajou, Cercoleptes caudivolvulus. See cut 
under kinkajmt. [A misnomer.] 
pot-tree (pot'tre), n. The monkey-pot tree: 
both names are from the large woody seed- 
vessels furnished with lids. See Lecyiliis. 
Pott's curvature, disease, fracture. See cur- 
vature, ete. 
Pottsville conglomerate. See mitbtone-grit. 
pottu (pot'u), M. The circular caste-mark worn 
011 the forehead of a Brahman. 
The right line alone, or pottu, the mystic circle, describes 
the sublime simplicity of his soul's aspiration. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 2B3. 
potulentt (pot'u-lent), a. [= It. potulento, < 
Ij.potulentus, drinkable, druuken,<potes, drunk- 
en: see potation.'] 1. Nearly drunk; rather 
tipsy. Bailey. 2. Pit to drink; drinkable. 
Johnson. 
pot-valiant (pot ' val * yant), a. Courageous 
through drink ; flghting-3runk. 
"Perhaps we had better retire," whispered Mr. Pick- 
wick. "Never, sir," rejoined Pott, pot-valiant in a double 
sense, "never." Dickens, Pickwick, li. 
pot-yaliantry (pot' vaFyant-ri), it. The courage 
excited by drinlc ; Dutch courage. 
The old man is still mercurial ; but his pot-valiantry is 
gone ; cold water is his only fog-breaker. 
& Jmlil. Margaret, ill. 
pot-verdugot (pot'ver'du-go), w. [J'erduyo for 
vertigo.] Giddiness produced by hard drinking. 
Hare you got thepot-verdugo? 
Beau, and Fl., Scornful Lady, ii. 1. 
pot-wabbler (pot'wob'ler), n. Same as pot- 
walloper. Halliwell. 
pot-waller (pot'woFer), . Same as pot-wal- 
loper. 
pot-wallinert, pot-wallonert, . Same as pot- 
walloper. 
The election of members here [Taunton ] is by those whom 
they call pot-waUoners that is to say, every inhabitant, 
whether housekeeper or lodger, who dresses his own vic- 
tuals : to make out which, several inmates or lodgers will, 
some little time before the election, bring out their pots, 
and make fires in the street, and boil victuals in the sight 
of their neighbours, that their votes may not be called in 
question. 
l>i- Foe, Tour thro' Great Britain, II. 18. (Dames.) 
pot-walloper (pot'wol*op-6r), . [< pot + wal- 
loper. Cl. pot-trailer, pot-walliner, and pot-boil- 
er, 2.] One who boils a pot. Specifically (o) One 
who prepares his own food ; a Housekeeper or a lodger who 
prepares hisown food ; in particular, a parliamentary voter 
in some English boroughs before the passing of the Reform 
Bill of 1832. Every male inhabitant, whether housekeeper 
or lodger, who had resided six months in the borough, and 
had not been chargeable to any township as a pauper for 
twelve months, was entitled to vote. 
All manner of Utilitarians, Radicals, refractory Potwal- 
lopers, and so forth. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 198. 
(6) A cook aboard ship; a pot -wrestler. I slant:.] (c) A 
scullion. BartleU. [U. 8.] 
pot-walloping (pot'wol'op-ing), . The sound 
made by a pot in boiling" 
The trumpet that once announced from afar the lau- 
relled mail . . . has now given way for ever to the pot- 
wallopings of the boiler. De Quincey, Bug. Mail Coach. 
pot-walloping (pot'wol*op-ing), a. Boiling a 
Ct: applied to boroughs in which, before the 
form Act of 1832, pot-wallopers were enti- 
tled to vote. Encyc. Diet. 
A pot-icallopiny borough like Taunton. 
Southey. Letters, IV. 3. 
pot-wheel (pot'hwel), n. A bucket-wheel for 
raising water; a noria. 
potwork (pot' work), . A small establishment 
for the making of pottery, or one for the pro- 
655 
duction of the commoner wares only. Jetcitt, 
n. i. 
pot-works (pot' werks), . j>7. sudsing. A manu- 
factory of fish-oil ; an oil-factory. 
pot-wrestler (pot'rest'ler), n. 1. The cook 
on a whale-ship. [Slang.] 2. A kitchen-maid. 
[Slang, U. S.] 
pouce 1 , n. An obsolete or dialectal form of 
pulse 1 . 
pouce 2 (pous), a. [Appar. a reduced form of 
pounce^ (cf. poumottfd for pounsoned). Hence 
I ><i a <!/.] 1. Dust. See the quotation. 
The name under which the ttax dust is known among 
the workers is "pouce," and those guttering from its elfects 
are said to be " poucey," a word coming directly from the 
French. Lancet, So. 8423, p. 60S. 
2. Nastiness. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
pouch (pouch), H. [< ME. pouche, var. otpoche, 
< OF. poche, a pouch, pocket: see poke' 2 .'] 1. A 
bag or sack of any sort; especially, a poke or 
pocket, or something answering the same pur- 
pose, as the bag carried at the girdle in the 
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and serving 
as a purse to cany small articles. 
A joly poppere baar he In his pouche. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 11. 
Tester I'll have la pouch, when them shall lack. 
ShaJc., M. W. of W., i. 3. 9. 
A dirk fell out of Will lam's pouch, 
And gave John a deadly wound. 
The Tica Brother (Child's Ballads, II. 353). 
Mony a time he wad slip In to see me wi' a brace o' wild 
deukes in his i*>uch. Scott, Antiquary, xv. 
2. A mail-pouch. See mail-baa. 
At 3 o'clock A. M. the European mails closed, and the 
pouche* put on board the Aller carried the usual copies 
for the foreign circulation. The Century, XXXVIII. 600. 
3. In zool., a dilated or sac-like part, capable of 
containing something. ( ) A sac-like dilatation of 
the cheeks, commonly called cheek-pouch. See cheek-pouch, 
and cuts under Geomyx and Peroyiiathus. (b) The gular 
sac of totipalmate or steganopodous birds, as pelicans. Set- 
cut under pelican, (c) The inarsuplum of marsupial mam- 
mals. See inartfupiuin. (d) The gill-sac or marsupinm of 
a marslpobranchiate, as a lamprey or hag. See cut under 
basket, 10. (?) A brood-pouch, of whatever character. See 
brood-pouch, and cuU under A'ototreina and Pipa. (/) The 
scent-bag of various animals, as the musk, the civet, and 
the beaver. 
4. In hot., a silicle; also, some other purse- 
like vessel, as the sac at the base of some 
petals. 5. In anat., a csecum, especially when 
dilated or saccular, or some similar sac or re- 
cess. See cut under lamprey. 6. A bag for shot 
or bullets; hence, after the introduction of car- 
tridges, a cartridge-box. 7. A small bulkhead 
or partition in a ship's hold to prevent grain or 
other loose cargo from shifting Anal, branchial, 
copulatory, gular pouch, see the adjectives. Fabri- 
clan pouch. See bursa Fabricii, under bursa. Laryn- 
geal pouch, a membranous sac, conical in form, placed 
between the superior vocal cord and the inner surface of 
the thyroid cartilage. Also called xaccide o/ the larynx. 
Leaden pouch, an ampulla of the kind used for pilgrims' 
signs. Needham's pouch or sac, an enlargement or 
ceecal diverticulum of the seminal duct of a cephalopod. 
forming a hollow muscular organ serving as a receptacle 
for the seminal ropes or spermatophores which are formed 
in the glandular parts of the same duct. Pilgrim's 
pouch. See pil'jrim. Pouch gestation. See gestatiim. 
Recto-uterine pouch. Same as rectimvjinal pouch. 
Rectovaglnal pouch, the pouch formed by the perito- 
neum between the rectum behind and the vagina and 
uterus in front Also called vouch o/ Douglas. Recto- 
vesical pouch, the peritoneal pouch between the rectum 
and the bladder, bounded laterally by the semilunar folds. 
Vesico-uterine pouch, the peritoneal pouch between 
the bladder and the uterus. 
pouch (pouch), v. [< pouch, n.] I. tranti. 1. To 
pocket; put into a pouch or pocket; inclose as 
in a pouch or sack. 
Come, bring your saint pouch'd in his leathern shrine. 
Quarks, Emblems, 1. 0. 
They [letters] have next to be pouched. For this pur- 
pose a large semicircular table is provided with a range 
of large sized pigeon holes whose floors are inclined down- 
ward in the rear. These are marked with the names of 
railroads, cities, etc. The packages of letters are thrown 
dexterously into the proper compartment*. 
ScfAmer., N. 8., LXII. 55. 
2. To swallow, as a bird or fish. Xorris. 
The common heron hath ... a long neck ... to reach 
prey, a wide extensive throat to pouch it. 
Derham, Physico-Theology, I. 3U4. 
3. To pocket; submit quietly to. 
I will pouch up no such affront. Scott. 
4. To fill the pockets of; provide with money. 
He had been loaded with kindness, . . . and, finally, bad 
been pouched inn manner worthy of a Marquess and of a 
grandfather. DurarK, Coningsby. i. i;. 
5. To purse up. 
He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up, and 
swelled. 
Richaril*iii, Sir Charles <;randison, V. 58. (Dariei.) 
II. tiitnnm. To form a pouch : bag. 
pouffe 
Pouchiiujt and irregularities of the bladder. 
iMncet, No. 5476, p. S13. 
pouch-bone (pouch'bon), . A marsupial bone ; 
one of the ossa marsupialia of marsupials and 
monotremes. 
pouched (poucht), a. [(.pouch + -rf2.] Hav- 
ing a pouch. Pouched animals, the marsupials. 
Pouched ant-eaters, the marsupials of the family Myr- 
mecobiidte. Pouched badgers, the marsupials of the 
family Perainelidx. Pouched dog. See d>iy. Pouch- 
ed frog. Same as putich-toad. See cut under Xototreuia. 
Pouched lion, a large -xlinct carnivorous marsupial 
of Australia. See Thylncolco. Pouched marmot, a 
spermophile ; a ground-squirrel of the subfamily Spermo- 
phUina, having cheek-pouches. See cut under Spermo- 
pltilwi. Pouched mouse, a rodent of the family Sacco- 
myidje ; a pocket-mouse, having external cheek-pouches. 
See cut under Pcroynathut. Pouched rat, some rat-like 
animal with cheek-pouches. Specifically (o) An animal 
of the family Goomyidje, including the two genera Qeomys 
and Thomomyn, to which belong the gophers proper, ca- 
mass-rats.orsand-ratsof Xorth America; one of the pocket- 
gophers, having external cheek-pouches. See cuts under 
Gcomyida and camaio-rat. (b) One of the African ham- 
sters of the genus Cricetamu. Pouched Stork. Same 
as adjutant-bird.- Pouched weasel, a marsupial of the 
genus J'hnxcoyale. 
pouchet-box (pou'chet-boks), n. Same as 
pounce-box. 
pouch-gill (pouch'gil), H. 1. One of the Mar- 
sipobranehii ; a lamprey or hag, having the gills 
in a pouch. 2. Tne so-called basket of the 
marsipobranchiates. HacfM. See cut under 
banket, 10. 
pouch-gilled (pouch'gild), . Having the gills 
in a pouch ; marsipobranchiate. as a lamprey or 
hag. 
pouch-hook (pouch'huk), . A hook used for 
suspending mail-bags while assorting the 
mails. C(ir-Bnil(ler't< Diet. 
pouchless (pouch'les), . [< pouch + -/es*.] 
Having no pouch. 
The opossum was absolutely forced to acquire a certain 
amount of Yankee smartness, or else to be improved off 
the face of the earth by the keen competition of thepot/cA- 
lem mammals. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXIII. 687. 
pouch-maker (pouch'ma*ker), . One whose 
business is the making of pouches or bags. 
York Plays, Index, p. Ixxvii. 
pouch-mouse (poiion'mous), . One of the 
smaller pocket-gophers, Tliomomijs talpmtlcx. 
[Manitoba.] 
pouch-moutht (pouoh'mouth), . and a. I. n. 
A mouth with pursed or protruded lips. Ash. 
II. a. Same &spou<-h-i>ioutl-<l. 
(1'layers, I mean), theaterlans, pouch-ntouth stage-walk- 
ers. Dekker, Satlromastlx. 
pouch-mouthedt (pouch'moutht), a. Blubber- 
lipped. Aiiixirtirlh. 
pouch-toad (pom-h'tod), H. A toad of the genus 
Nototrt-ma, as X. mamupiatum. which hatches 
its eggs and carries its tadpoles in a hole in its 
back. Also called pouched froij. See cut un- 
der \ototrema. 
POUCV (pou'si), . [< police? + -01.] 1. Dirty; 
untidy. [Prov. Eng.J 2. See quotation un- 
der pouce', 1. 
poudret, . A Middle English form of powder. 
poudr6 (po-dra'), a. [., pp. of povdrer, pow- 
der: see powder, r.] In hir., same as seme. 
poudre-marchantt, [ME., &lso ponder mar- 
chant,poudre marchauitt; < OF. poudre (see pow- 
der) + marchant. man-hand, "well traded, much 
used, very common "(Cotgrave): see merchant.] 
A kind of flavoring powder used in the middle 
ages. 
A cook they hadde with hem for the nones, 
To boyllc cnyknes with the rnary bones, 
And poudre-tnarchuunt tart and galingale. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 381. 
poudrette (po-dref), . [F., dim. of poudre, 
powder: see powder.'] A manure prepared 
from night-soil dried and mixed with charcoal, 
gypsum, etc. 
Speculators have not traced a sufficient distinction be- 
tween the liquid manure of the sewers and the poudrette 
or dry manure. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 464. 
pouer 1 !, An obsolete form of poor. 
pouer 2 *, . An obsolete form otpoirer 1 . 
pouertt, w. An obsolete form of poverty. 
pouf (pof), n. [F. : see /niJT.] A plaited piece 
of gauze worn in the hair, forming part of a 
head-dress of the second half of the eighteenth 
century; hence, a head-dress in which such 
pieces of gauze, and the like, were used, and 
to which were sometimes added very elaborate 
ornaments, as figures of men and animals, or 
even a ship or a windmill. 
pouffe (pM)- n. [F. : see puff.] Anything 
rounded and soft. Especially (a) In dreutnul. , ' /. 
material gathered up so as to produce a sort of knot or 
