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POBET'TEN, a town cf Pruffia, in the province of 
Samland ; fixteen miles north-weft of Konigfberg. 
POBIANIT'ZA, a town of the duchy of Warfaw; 
thirty-three miles eaft-north-eaft of Siradia. 
POBIN'DEN, a town of Pniffia, in the province of Sam¬ 
land ; fifteen miles north of Konigfberg. 
PO'BLA, (La), a town of Spain, in Catalonia; twenty- 
five miles north-weft of Salfona. 
PO'BLA DE LLIL'LETT, a town of Spain, in Catalo¬ 
nia; twenty miles eaft-louth-eaft of Urgel. 
POBLA'CION, a town of Spain, in Navarre; twelve 
miles weft of Eftella. 
POBLE'DA, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile ; twenty- 
one miles fouth-weft of Calahorra. 
POB'NITZ, a river of Bohemia,'which rifes near Culm- 
back, on the borders of Silefia, and runs into the Elbe 
near Tetfchen. 
POCAHON'TAS, a town of Chefterfield county, in 
Virginia, within the jurifdiflion of Peterfburg, in Din- 
widdie county; probably deriving its name from the 
famous princefs Pocahontas, the daughter of king Pow¬ 
hatan. Morfe. 
PO'CAR, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra ; feven 
miles weft of Salerno. 
POCATALI'GO, a poft village of the United States, in 
Beaufort diftrift, South Carolina: fixty-four miles weft- 
fouth-weft of Charleftown.' Lat. 32. 38. N. Ion. 81. 2. W. 
POCELLA'RIA,/. in botany. See Agaricus. 
POCHER'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in Marawar; 
five miles louth of Ramanadporum. 
POCHET'TI. See Barbatelli, vol. ii. 
POCH'LARN. See Pechlarn. 
POCK, f. [Saxon.] A puftule raifed by the fmall-pox.. 
POCK'-FRETTEN, 'adj. [pock, and fret, to corrode.] 
Pitted with the fmall-pox. 
POCK'-HOLE,/ Pit or fear made by the fmall-pox: 
Are thefe but warts and pockkoles in the face 
O’ th’ earth ? - Donne. 
POCE/-WOOD. See Guiacum. 
POCKE'SO, afeaport town in the country of Axim, on 
the Gold coaft of Africa. 
POCK'ET, f. [pocca, Sax. poche, Fr.] The fmall bag 
inferted into clothes.—As he was feldom without medals 
in his pocket, he would often fnew us the fame face on 
an old coin that we faw in the ftatue. AddiJ'on on Medals. 
Here’s a letter 
Found in the pocket of the flain Roderigo. Shakefpeare. 
A pocket is ufed in trade for a certain quantity; as, a 
pocket of hops. Dr. Jo/infon. —That is, becaufe it is a 
poke, or fack. Poke is the parent of pocket. Todd. 
To POCK'ET, v. a. To put in the pocket: 
Blefs’d paper-credit ! 
Gold, imp’d with this, can compafs hardeft things, 
Can pocket ftates, or fetch or carry kings. Pope. 
To Pocket-/:;?. A proverbial form that denotes the 
doing or taking any thing clandeftinely.— If thy pocket 
were enriched with any other injuries but thefe, I am a 
villain ; and yet you will ftand to it, you will not pocket- 
up wrongs. Shaltejpeare’s Hen. IV. 
He lays bis claim 
To half the profit, half the fame, 
And helps to pocket-np the game. Prior. 
POCK'ET-BOOK, f. A paper book carried in the 
pocket for hafty notes.—Note down the matters of doubt 
in fom e pocket-book, and take the firft opportunity to get 
them refolved. Watts. 
POCK'ET-GLASS,/. Portable looking-glafs: 
The world’s a farce, an empty fltow, 
Powder and pocket-ylafs and beaux. Prior. 
POCK'ET-HOLE, f. The hole by which the hand is 
put into the pocket. 
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POCK'ET-SHER'IFFS. Sheriffs nominated of the foie 
authority of the crown. See the article Sheriff. 
POCK'ETING,/.' The a£t of putting into the pocket; 
the a< 5 l of putting up in pockets. The fluff of which 
pockets are made. 
POCK'INESS,/. The ftate of being pocky. 
POCK'LINGTON, a market-town in the Eaft Riding of 
Yorkfhire, fituated in the level country weft of the Wolds, 
on a fmall ftream which falls into the river Derwent. 
Though large, the town has no manufactures, nor any 
conliderable trade. Population 1539. Market on Satur¬ 
day ; and fairs Mar. 7, May 6, Aug. 5, and Nov. 8. It 
is fourteen miles fouth-eaft of York, and 196 north by 
weft of London. Lat. 53. 55. N. Ion. o. 46. W. 
Several places in the vicinity of Pocklington merit the 
notice of the topographer and antiquary. The Roman 
road, called the Ermine-ftreet, paffes within tw’o miles to 
the weft of the town. Londdborough-park, which it in- 
terfeCls at the diftance of three miles, is fuppofed by Drake, 
the hiftorian of Yorkftiire, to be the ancient Delgovitia. 
This place was for many centuries a feat of the ancient 
and celebrated family of the Cliffords. It is now the 
property of the duke of Devonfhire, as defeendant from 
the daughter and heirefs of Henry Clifford, the fifth and 
laft earl of Cumberland. The houfe is fituated on eleva¬ 
ted ground, and is furrounded by an extenlive and well- 
wooded park.—At Melburn, five miles to the fouth-weft 
of Pocklington, is the feat of fir Henry-Maghull- 
Mervin Vafavour, ban. The manfion is a large modern 
edifice of brick, and commands fotue fine views of the 
wettern acclivities of the Wolds.—Stamford-bridge, eight 
miles to the north-w’eft, Drake conceives to be the feite 
of the Derventio: but Camden fixes that ftation at Aldby, 
about a mile and a half to the northward. Here was 
fought, in 1066, one of the moft bloody battles recorded 
in the hiftory of England, between the forces of Harold 
II. and thofe of Tofti his brother, the baniflied earl of 
Northumberland, aflifted by Harfagar king of Norway. 
The conteft Lifted from feven in the morning till three 
in the afternoon, when the Norwegians and rebels were 
routed with great (laughter. Beauties of England and 
Wales, vol. xvi. Briti/k Directory , vol. iv. 
POCKREKES'KO, a river of North America, in 
New-Britain. 
PO'CO de PANEL'LA, a village of Brazil, on the 
river Caparibe, fome miles to the weftward of Pernambuco. 
It is greatly reforted to by the inhabitants of Pernambuco 
during the fummer-months; and contains a chapel built 
by fubfeription, a row of houfes running parallel with the 
river, and other dwellings fcattered about in all direc¬ 
tions. 
PO'COCKE (Ed ward, D.D.), a celebrated orientalift, 
was born at Oxford in 1604. He received his early edu¬ 
cation at the free fchool of Tame, and in 1618 was enter¬ 
ed a commoner of Magdalen-hall, Oxford. In 1620 he 
removed to Corpus-Chrifti college, in which he had ob¬ 
tained a fcholarfhip. After he had taken a bachelor’s 
degree, he applied himfelf to the ftudy of the oriental 
languages, firft under Matthias Pafor, a refugee from the 
Palatinate, and then under the Rev. William Bedwell. 
His ardour for that branch of learning caufed him to 
make an extraordinary progrefs; and in 1627 he began 
to prepare, from a MS. in the Bodleian library, a Syriac 
verlion of four Epiftles which were yet wanting to a 
complete tranflation of the New Teftament into that lan¬ 
guage. Thefe were fini(lied in 1628, in which year he was 
admitted probationer-fellow of his college; and, coming 
to the knowledge of Gerard John Vofiius, who vifited 
Oxford in 1629, they were carried by that learned man to 
Leyden, where they were printed under the infpeftion of 
Louis de Dieu. Pococke was ordained prieft in that year ; 
and, having been appointed chaplain to the Englifh failory 
in Aleppo, he arrived in that city in 1630. 
The advantages of fuch a fituation for the purfuit of 
his favourite ftudies were not likely to be loft unon him. 
He 
