Pot"-sure` (-shr), a. Made confident by drink. [Obs.]

Pott (?), n. A size of paper. See under Paper.

Pot"tage (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See Pot, and cf.

Porridge, Porringer.] A kind of food made by boiling vegetables 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.

Pot"tain (?), n. Old pot metal. [Obs.] Holland.

Pot*teen" (?), n. See Poteen.

Pot"ter (?), n. [Cf. F. potier.] 1. One whose occupation is to make

earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9.

The potter heard, and stopped his wheel.

Longfellow.

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