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The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.

A kind of sauce or pickle. King.

The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash.

Potash. [Obs.]

Potassium oxide. [Obs.]

A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.

Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.

An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).

The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.

A draught. "Potations pottle deep." Shak.

The sweet potato (see below). Potato beetle, Potato bug. (Zoöl.)

A drinker. [R.] Southey.

Of or pertaining to drinking. Ld. Lytton.

A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant]

A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.

To thrust; to push. [Obs.] "I 'll potch at him some way." Shak.

One who, or that which, potches. Potcher engine (Paper Making), a machine in which washed rags are stirred in a bleaching solution.

An apothecary. [Obs.]

Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potheen, and potteen.]

Molybdenum sulphide.