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k. -- Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. -- Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. -- Pot metal. (a) The metal from wh…

To nominate for support at a public school or other institution . Lamb.

not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford. Evelyn.

The hand; the first. [Colloq.] Lamb.

, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives. Clarendon. Cocks and lambs . . . at the mercy of cats and wolves . . . must never expect better quarter. L'Estrange.

ntented. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 1 Pet. iii. 4. I will sit as quiet as a lamb. Shak.

Open robbery. [Obs.] Lambarde.

Hoarse; raucous [R.] Lamb.

The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded. [R.] Lamb.

I pitied you, now you may pity me. Dryden. By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich. Lamb.

The act of revoking. She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.

feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. Venus loveth riot and dispense. Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

ing. When the noise of a torrent, the rustle of a wood, the song of birds, or the play of lambs, had power to fill the attention, and suspend all perception of the course of time. Idler.

, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep. Oft sacrificing bullock, lamb, or kid. Milton.

To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort. Oft have I scaled the craggy oak. Spenser.

Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

ern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants. Scythian lamb. (Bot.) See Barometz.

One who shears. Like a lamb dumb before his shearer. Acts viii. 32.

hekel. [Obs.] The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God. Jer. Taylor.