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To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten cylinder glass.

The quality or state of being plenipotent. [R.]

Possessing full power. [R.] Milton.

Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers. Howell.

See Pockmarked.

ing polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

show; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.

The act of foreshowing; foreboding. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. Shak. My loss by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden.

Presaging; foreshadowing.

Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay.

The metencephalon.

A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.

Subsequent existence.

Existing or living after. [R.] "Postexistent atoms." Cudworth.

Potency; capacity. [R.] Sir W. Hamilton.

The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence. "Drugs of potency." Hawthorne. A place of potency and away o' the state. Shak.

Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine. "Harsh and potent injuries." Shak. Moses once more his potent rod extends. Milton.

Sovereignty. [Obs.]

One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch. The blessed and only potentate. 1 Tim. vi. 15. Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones. Milton.