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Potlid valve, a valve covering a round hole or the end of a pipe or pump barrel, resembling a potlid in form.

Pot"luck` (?), n. Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.

A woman whose potluck was always to be relied on.

G. Eliot.

To take potluck, to take what food may chance to be provided.

Pot"man (?), n.; pl. Potmen (&?;). 1. A pot companion. [Obs.] Life of A. Wood (1663).

2. A servant in a public house; a potboy.

||Po*too" (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius ||grandis).

||Po`to*roo" (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Any small kangaroo belonging to ||Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and ||Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.

Pot"pie` (?), n. A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

Pot`pour`ri" (?), n. [F., fr. pot pot + pourri, p. p. of pourrir to rot, L. putrere. Cf. Olla-podrida.] A medley or mixture. Specifically: (a) A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together. (b) A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room. (c) A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley. (d) A literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.

Pots"dam group` (&?;). (Geol.) A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.

{ Pot"shard` (?), Pot"share` (?), } n. A potsherd. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pot"sherd` (?), n. [Pot + sherd or shard.] A piece or fragment of a broken pot. Job ii. 8.

Pot"stone` (?), n. (Min.) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

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.

2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey.

3. One who pots meats or other eatables.

4. (Zoˆl.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.