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Polish; gloss. [Obs.] Donne.

A polysulphide. [Obsoles.]

The culture of fruit; pomology as an art.

ch is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon.

See Posture. [Obs.]

A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure. B. G. Wilder.

ondition of being born after another in the same family; - - distinguished from primogeniture. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The right of the youngest born. Mozley & W.

to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude. Atalanta, the posture of whose limbs was so lively expressed . . . one would have sworn the very picture had run. Sir P. Sidney. In most stra…

One who postures.

Made confident by drink. [Obs.]

Made confident by drink. [Obs.]

Poorly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who pours.

See Purpresture.

A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.

The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.

ce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South.

The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.

The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy. Milman.