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A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.

See Fantastic.

See Fantasy, and Fancy.

n inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

The works of a poetaster. [R.]

A breviary; a prayer book. [Written variously portace, portasse, portesse, portise, porthose, portos, portus, portuse, etc.] [Obs.] Spenser. Camden. By God and by this porthors I you swear. Chaucer.

The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties; -- hence called also caustic potash.

Potash. [Obs.]

Potassium oxide. [Obs.]

A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.

Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.

An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).

The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.

The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to epitasis. B. Jonson.

Same as Gyroscope, 1.

A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci. ).

In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapæstics. Liddell & Scott.

A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

d beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]

See Succotash. Bartlett.