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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POT, n.
1. A vessel more deep than broad, made of earth, or iron or other metal, used for several domestic purposes; as an iron pot, for boiling meat or vegetables; a pot for holding liquors; a cup, as a pot of ale; an earthen pot for plants, called a flower pot, etc.
2. A sort of paper of small sized sheets.
To go to pot, to be destroyed, ruined, wasted or expended. [A low phrase.]
POT, v.t. To preserve seasoned in pots; as potted fowl and fish.
1. To inclose or cover in pots of earth.
2. To put in casks for draining; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler and placing it in hogsheads with perforated heads, from which the molasses percolates through the spongy stalk of a plantain leaf.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
2: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne]
3: the quantity contained in a pot [syn: pot, potful]
4: a container in which plants are cultivated [syn: pot, flowerpot]
5: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
6: the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) [syn: pot, jackpot, kitty]
7: slang for a paunch [syn: pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy]
8: a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets [syn: potentiometer, pot]
9: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane] v
1: plant in a pot; "He potted the palm"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pott; akin to Middle Low German pot pot Date: before 12th century 1. a. a usually rounded metal or earthen container used chiefly for domestic purposes (as in cooking or for holding liquids or growing plants); also any of various technical or industrial vessels or enclosures resembling or likened to a household pot <the pot of a still> b. potful <a pot of coffee> 2. an enclosed framework of wire, wood, or wicker for catching fish or lobsters 3. a. a large amount (as of money) b. (1) the total of the bets at stake at one time (2) one round in a poker game c. the common fund of a group 4. potshot 5. potbelly 6. ruin <gone to pot> 7. British a shot in snooker in which a ball is pocketed 8. a vessel for urination and defecation: as a. toilet 3b b. potty II. verb (potted; potting) Date: 1616 transitive verb 1. a. to place in a pot b. to pack or preserve (as cooked and chopped meat) in a sealed pot, jar, or can often with aspic 2. to shoot with a potshot 3. to make or shape (earthenware) as a potter 4. to embed (as electronic components) in a container with an insulating or protective material (as plastic) intransitive verb to take a potshot III. noun Etymology: perhaps modification of Mexican Spanish potiguaya Date: 1938 marijuana IV. abbreviation 1. potential 2. potentiometer

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a vessel, usu. rounded, of ceramic ware or metal or glass for holding liquids or solids or for cooking in. 2 a a coffee-pot, flowerpot, glue-pot, jam-pot, teapot, etc. b = chimney-pot. c = lobster-pot. 3 a drinking vessel of pewter etc. 4 the contents of a pot (ate a whole pot of jam). 5 the total amount of the bet in a game etc. 6 colloq. a large sum (pots of money). 7 sl. a vessel given as a prize in an athletic contest, esp. a silver cup. 8 = pot-belly. --v.tr. (potted, potting) 1 place in a pot. 2 (usu. as potted adj.) preserve in a sealed pot (potted shrimps). 3 sit (a young child) on a chamber pot. 4 pocket (a ball) in billiards etc. 5 shoot at, hit, or kill (an animal) with a pot shot. 6 seize or secure. 7 abridge or epitomize (in a potted version; potted wisdom). Phrases and idioms: go to pot colloq. deteriorate; be ruined. pot-bellied having a pot-belly. pot-belly (pl. -ies) 1 a protruding stomach. 2 a person with this. 3 a small bulbous stove. pot-boiler 1 a work of literature or art done merely to make the writer or artist a living. 2 a writer or artist who does this. pot-bound (of a plant) having roots which fill the flowerpot, leaving no room to expand. pot cheese US cottage cheese. pot-herb any herb grown in a kitchen garden. pot-hook 1 a hook over a hearth for hanging a pot etc. on, or for lifting a hot pot. 2 a curved stroke in handwriting, esp. as made in learning to write. pot-hunter 1 a person who hunts for game at random. 2 a person who takes part in a contest merely for the sake of the prize. pot luck whatever (hospitality etc.) is available. pot of gold an imaginary reward; an ideal; a jackpot. pot pie a pie of meat etc. or fruit with a crust baked in a pot. pot plant a plant grown in a flowerpot. pot roast a piece of meat cooked slowly in a covered dish. pot-roast v.tr. cook (a piece of meat) in this way. pot-shot 1 a random shot. 2 a shot aimed at an animal etc. within easy reach. 3 a shot at a game-bird etc. merely to provide a meal. pot-valiant courageous because of drunkenness. pot-valour this type of courage. Derivatives: potful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: OE pott, corresp. to OFris., MDu., MLG pot, f. pop.L 2. n. sl. marijuana. Phrases and idioms: pot-head one who smokes this. Etymology: prob. f. Mex. Sp. potiguaya 3. n. & v. Austral. & NZ --n. a dropped goal in rugby football. --v.tr. (potted, potting) score (a dropped goal). Etymology: perh. f. pot-shot

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Consolation game Con`so*la"tion game, match match, pot pot, race race, etc. A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pot Pot, v. t. 1. To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed. When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed. --Encyc. of Sport. 2. To secure; gain; win; bag. [Colloq.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pot Pot, v. i. To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pot Pot, n. 1. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang] 2. (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet. 3. (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the pool.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pot 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pot 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pot Pot, v. i. To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] It is less labor to plow than to pot it. --Feltham.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pots, potting, potted) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A pot is a deep round container used for cooking stews, soups, and other food. ...metal cooking pots. N-COUNT • A pot of stew, soup, or other food is an amount of it contained in a pot. He was stirring a pot of soup. N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. You can use pot to refer to a teapot or coffee pot. There's tea in the pot. N-COUNT • A pot of tea or coffee is an amount of it contained in a pot. He spilt a pot of coffee. N-COUNT: usu N of n 3. A pot is a cylindrical container for jam, paint, or some other thick liquid. Hundreds of jam pots lined her scrubbed shelves. N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft n N • A pot of jam, paint, or some other thick liquid is an amount of it contained in a pot. ...a pot of red paint. N-COUNT: usu N of n 4. A pot is the same as a flowerpot. N-COUNT 5. If you pot a young plant, or part of a plant, you put it into a container filled with soil, so it can grow there. Pot the cuttings individually. ...potted plants. VERB: V n, V-ed 6. Pot is sometimes used to refer to the drugs cannabis and marijuana. (INFORMAL) 7. In the games of snooker and billiards, if you pot a ball, you succeed in hitting it into one of the pockets. He did not pot a ball for the next two frames. = pocket VERB: V n 8. see also potted, chamber pot, chimney pot, coffee pot, lobster pot, melting pot, plant pot 9. If you take pot luck, you decide to do something even though you do not know what you will get as a result. If you haven't made an appointment, take pot luck and knock on the door... He scorns the 'pot-luck' approach. PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pot: A term used as the translation of a number of Hebrew and Greek words whose fundamental meaning seems to describe them as intended for the most part to hold liquid or semi-liquid substances, but the pots of Ex 27:3 are intended to hold ashes.

(1) cir, the most common word for "pot." It designates most frequently some household utensil, probably a pot or kettle for boiling. So 2Ki 4:38 ff; Ex 16:3; Jer 1:13 the King James Version; Eze 11:3,7,11, "caldron"; 24:3,6 the King James Version; Mic 3:3; Zec 14:21, etc. It is also used as the name of some vessel of the sanctuary. So Ex 27:3, where the context shows it was intended to hold ashes; 1Ki 7:45; 2Ch 4:16; 2Ki 25:14. In Ps 60:8; 108:9, it is a pot for washing.

(2) parur (Nu 11:8; 1Sa 2:14), a vessel for boiling; in Jud 6:19, a vessel for holding broth.

(3) dudh, rendered "pot" in Ps 81:6 in the King James Version, "basket" in the Revised Version (British and American); "pot" both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) in Job 41:20.

(4) tsintseneth (Ex 16:33), the jar in which the manna was placed. This jar or pot is mentioned in Heb 9:4 under the name stamnos.

(5) 'acon (2Ki 4:2), some kind of jar for holding oil.

(6) xestes (Mr 7:4), some kind of household utensil.

Mention may also be made of the word rendered "pot" in Le 6:28 the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American) renders more correctly by the general term "vessel"; for the King James Version "pots" (Ps 68:13) the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "sheepfolds." The root is uncertain. Those who render "sheepfolds" connect with the related root in Ge 49:14; Jud 5:16. Others render "fireplaces" or "ash heaps." See also "range for pots," in Le 11:35; "pots," Jer 35:5 the King James Version, correctly "bowls" the Revised Version (British and American); "refining pots" in Pr 17:3; 27:21.

See also FOOD.

Walter R. Betteridge

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Kettle, saucepan, pan, skillet. 2. Mug, cup, stoop, tankard, can. 3. Jar, jug, crock.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

The pot calls the kettle black a-se; one rogue exclaims against another.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

On the pot; i.e. at stool.

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