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A head or poll tax; hence, extortion. [Obs.] Foxe.

See Pomage.

A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges. Ayliffe.

A sailor's wages when in port.

A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.

Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.

to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post. Postage stamp, a government stamp required to be put upon articles sent by mail in payment of the postage, esp. an adhesive stamp issued and sold for that purpose.

See Pottage.

A porringer. [Obs.] Grew.

meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.

To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.]

To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy. But he was preëngaged by former ties. Dryden.

Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.

To preëngage. [Obs.] Fuller.

shows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury. "Joy and shout -- presage of victory." Milton.

Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.

That which is presaged, or foretold. [R.] "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.

One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder. Shak.

Pressure.

A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain. Homans.