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or 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.

Old pot metal. [Obs.] Holland.

See Poteen.

One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9. The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.

The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.

A pot or tankard. Shak. A dry pottle of sack before him. Sir W. Scott.

A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog.

Fit to drink; potable. [Obs.] Johnson.

Pertaining to anthropotomy, or the dissection of human bodies.

One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.

The anatomy or dissection of the human body; androtomy. Owen.

One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

The result or issue. [Obs.]

fulfillment. In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.

The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.

A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an apotghem; sententious; pithy.