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 Pot pourri. A pot porride; a Spanish dish of many seuerall meates boyled, or stued together.  Pot aux roses. A misterie, secret, hidden matter; a cloake, or couer vnto many knaueries.  Pot de la teste. The scalpe, or skull.  Pot au vin. The head. ¶Rab. Pot de vin. A pot-full of Wine; also, a reward giuen for good newes brought, lost goods restored, a bargaine well driuen, or in respect of any other acceptable seruice; also, a portion bestowed with a maid in marriage.  À pot, & à feu. At bed and boord, at meat and meale, as one of the house; or, as all of one house; and hence;  Vivre à pot, & à feu avec. To keepe companie, haue societie, hold correspondencie, with.  Aller à l'entour du pot. To vse many circumstances, to goe about the bush; or, by circuit of words to insinuate that which one dares not plainely deliuer.  Ils ne font qu'un pot, & vn feu. They liue continually together.  Deux pots au feu signifient feste, & deux femmes font la tempeste: Prov. Two pots a feast presage, two women mickle rage.  Tel pot tel couvercle: Pro. Such pot such couer; like will to like, quoth the Diuell to the Collier.  Il n'y a rien tel qu'un vieil pot à faire la bonne soupe: Pro. Looke Vieil. Potable: com. Potable, drinkable.

Potage: m. Pottage, porridge.  Potage de la bite. Beet pottage; also, the oyle of man; an oyle which a woman should not (vnlawfully) tast of.  Pour tout potage. When all is done, when all comes t' all; also, for all purposes.  C'est vn vilain pour tout potage. This is a notable rascall, a notorious villaine, a verier knaue there liues not.  Bon gaignage fait bon potage: Prov. See Gaignage. De mauvaise viande on ne sçait faire vn bon potage: Pro. Jll stuffe will not affoord good worke.

Potagé: m. ée: f. Made pottage, reduced into pottage.

Potager: m. A by-place in a countrey house, in stead of a Larder, for the laying vp of raw, or cold meates; also, a porridge-bellie, or a great porridge-eater.

Potager: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging vnto, pottage.  Herbes potageres. Pot-hearbes.  Vie potagere. Life sustained onely by pottage.  Vis potagere. A staire that leades vnto the Larder of a countrey house.

Potager. To make pottage; also, to haue in his power.  Se potager. To play the good husband, or giue himselfe wholly to husbandrie; to apply his busineße at home.

Potagerie: f. Hearbes, or any other stuffe whereof pottage is made.

Potatif. Pot-plying, tipling square.

Pote: f. The great sea-Nettle; an ouglie fish. ¶Provenc. Gens de pote. as Gens de poste. Pote: com. Clumpse, benummed, or swollen, with cold.

Poté: m. ée: f. Plumpe, or plumme, full-round.

Potée: f. Brasse, Copper, Tinne, Pewter, &c, burnt, or calcinated; also, a pot-full of any thing.

Potein. Lame, or defectiue in a limme, naturally.

Potelé: m. ée: f. Plumpe, full, fat, fleshie, plumme.

Potelée: f. Fulnesse, or plumpneße of flesh.

Potence: f. A Gibbet; also, a Crutch for a lame man. Baston de potence. The staffe whereat a Ring to be runne at hangeth.

Potencé: m. ée: f. Like, or belonging, to a Gibbet, or Crutch; Jn Blason, potencie; or, as in;  Champaigne potencée. A Barre Miere.  Croix potencée. A crosse Batune.

Potentat: m. A Potentate, great Lord, mightie Personage, powerfull man, in a State.

Potentiel: m. elle: f. Strong, forcible, powerfull in operation.  Cautere potentiel. A potentiall Cauter; any caustick medicine, or compound.

Potentille: f. Wild Tansie, Siluer weed.

Poterie: f. A pot-market; also, a Potters shop; also, a place wherein pots are made; also, pot-making.

Poterne: f. A Posterne, or posterne gate; a backe-doore to a Fort, &c.

Potes. A kind of shining fish made somewhat like a cap; it hath eight feet, and being handled any while, melts like Jce.

Potestat: m. A Potestat, principall Officer, chiefe Magistrate.

Potie: f. A knot in Woollen cloth; or, a rotten thread, or threads end, readie to fall from cloth.

Potié. as Poupelé. Potier: m. A Potter, or Pot-maker.  Potier d'estain. A Pewterer.

Potieux: m. euse: f. Ouer-daintie, curious, queasie-stomacked, nice; also, peeuish, froward, wayward, pettish, hard to please, content with nothing that is offered, or set before, him.

Potingues. Drinking exploits. ¶Rab. Potion: f. A potion; a Phisicall drinke, or drench.

Potiron: m. A Mushrome, or Toadstoole; also, a kind of Dolphin-like fish.

Potonnier. as Pautonnier. Pottée: f. A potfull of; also, as Potée. Pottein: m. Broken peeces of mettall, or of old vessels, mingled one with another.

Pottelé. as Potelé. Pottin: m. Solder of mettall; or, as Pottein. Potus: m. Phisicall potions.

Pouac. Faugh; an Jnteriection vsed when any filthie thing is shewed, or sayed.

Poüacre. A filthie scabbinesse on the nose, or about the muzzle of a Sheepe; Looke Poacre; also, a kind of Wood-*land fowle.

Poüacre: com. Sniuellie, snottie, rotten, filthie; one that, without respect of any presence, is euer spitting, spattering, or blowing his nose; and hence also, lither, lazie, sloathfull, idle.

Pouallier. as Poallier. Pouce. Looke Poulce. Poucher. as Pocher. Pouciniere. Seeke Poulsiniere. Poucin: m. A Chicken.

Pouctau: m. The wild Poppie, Corne-rose, red Corne-rose.

Poucyrade: f. The hearbe called, Baulme.

Poudre, & Poudroyer. Looke Pouldre, & Pouldroyer. Poudrier: m. A Gunpowder-maker; also, a dust-box.

Poveau: m. The panne of a Close-stoole.

Pouëe: f. The ridge of a bed in a Vineyard.

Poüelle: f. A Stoue, or Hot-house.

Pouër. To mount, ascend, goe vp; or, to hale as Barge-men doe against wind & tide; also, to pile, or heap vp; whēce;  Pouër la vigne. To raise the beds of a Vineyard into ridges.

Pouillard: m. arde: f. Lowsie.