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A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. "I long to be spelling her Arabic scrawls and pothooks." Dryden.

An alehouse. T. Warton.

A vase with a separate cover, the body usually rounded or polygonal in plan with nearly vertical sides, a neck of smaller size, and a rounded shoulder.

The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware.

A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine. Shak.

Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.

The lid or cover of a pot. Potlid valve, a valve covering a round hole or the end of a pipe or pump barrel, resembling a potlid in form.

Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal. A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on. G. Eliot. To take potluck, to take what food may chance to be provided.

A pot companion. [Obs.] Life of A. Wood (1663).

A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis).

Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.

A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

A medley or mixture. Specifically:

the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.

A potsherd. [Obs.] Spenser.

A piece or fragment of a broken pot. Job ii. 8.

A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

Made confident by drink. [Obs.]

A size of paper. See under Paper.

curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.