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 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 which iron pots are
made, different from common pig iron. (b) An alloy of copper with lead
used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts. Ure.
(c) A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with
the melted glass in the pot. Knight. -- Pot plant (Bot.), either of the
trees which bear the monkey-pot. -- Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria. --
To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to
become refuse. [Colloq.] Dryden. J. G. Saxe.
Pot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Potted; p. pr. & vb. n. Potting.] To place or
inclose in pots; as: (a) To preserve seasoned in pots. "Potted fowl and
fish." Dryden. (b) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or
bulbs. (c) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler,
and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through
which the molasses drains off. B. Edwards. (d) (Billiards) To pocket.