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To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.]

Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.

The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also pollybait. [Prov. Eng.]

Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.

A size of paper. See Pott. Jack pot. See under 2d Jack. -- Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage. -- Pot companion, a companion in drinking. -- Pot hanger, a pothook. -- Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. -- Pot hun…

See Pottage.

A draught. "Potations pottle deep." Shak.

especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potheen, and potteen.]

Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. [Written also potter, and pudder.] "What a pother and stir!" Oldham. "Coming on with a terrible pother." Wordsworth.

The act of carrying past or beyond. [R.] Abp. Potter.

A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.

The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle. Puddering in the designs or doings of others. Barrow. Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs. Holland.

To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

king and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

, and administrative skill rather than by science or literature, although they were adept potters, weavers, and goldsmiths, and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing.

A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.

A painful affection of the spine; especially, Pott's disease; also, formerly, lead colic.