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 241 Porbeagle. A small kind of shark. Borlase. Porf. A pool of stagnant water. M.A.C. Porvan. A rush wick for a lamp. M.A.C. Posh. Phlegm oppressing the breathing. Folwhele. Pose. Chaucer. In Celtic Cornish ;pos means heavy. POSS, pOSS up, or possed up. To stand up, to ^' stick up," leaning against a wall or a post. " Theer a stonds possed op, lookin like a vool." Pos. A post, is Celtic Cornish. Post groats. "In the time of Henry 8th there were two coinages (of tin) in a year, viz; at Midsummer and Michaelmas, but two more were added at Christ- mas and Ladyday for the conveniency of tinners, for which they paid as an acknowledgment four pence for every hundred of white tin then coined." The duty to the Duke of Cornwall being four shillings for every hundred weight of tin coined. Borlase. See Coining tin. Powdered. Slightly sprinkled with salt, corned. Pots. The bowels; wooden panniers for carrying manure on an animal's back, dung ]pots. Pot-crooks. The second form in learning to write, next to making strokes. Pot-hooks. Pot grouan. Soft granite-like ground in which it is easy to drive an adit. Pryce, Pot-ground. A miner's term for loose ground. Q