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Pot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A vessel more deep than broad, made of earth, or iron or other metal, used for several domestic purposes; as an iron pot for boiling meat or vegetables; a pot for holding liquors; a cup, as a pot of ale; an earthen pot for plants, called a flower pot etc.

2. A sort of paper of small sized sheets.

3. To go to pot to be destroyed, ruined, wasted or expended. [A low phrase.]

Pot [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To preserve seasoned in pots; as potted fowl and fish.

2. To inclose or cover in pots of earth.

3. To put in casks for draining; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler and placing it in hogsheads with perforated heads, from which the molasses percolates through the spongy stalk of a plantain leaf.

Pot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.

2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.

3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.

4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.

5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.

6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.

7. A perforated cask for draining sugar.

8. A size of paper. See Pott.

Pot [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To tipple; to drink.

Pot [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To place or inclose in pots

2. To preserve seasoned in pots.

3. To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.

4. 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.

5. To pocket.

Pot-bellied [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.

Pot-belly [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A protuberant belly.

Pot-companion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An associate or companion in drinking; applied generally to habitual hard drinkers.

Pot-hook [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A hook on which pots and kettles are hung over the fire.

2. A letter or character like a pot-hook; a scrawled letter.

Pot-sure [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Made confident by drink.

Pot-valiant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Courageous over the cup; heated to valor by strong drink.

Pot-valiant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the courage given by drink.

Pot-walloper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.

2. One who cleans pots; a scullion.

Potable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Drinkable; that may be drank; as water fresh and potable

2. Rivers run potable gold.

Potable [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Something that may be drank.

Potable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fit to be drunk; drinkable.

Potable [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A potable liquid; a beverage.

Potableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality of being drinkable.

Potableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being drinkable.

Potage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A species of food made of meat boiled to softness in water, usually with some vegetables or sweet herbs.

Potage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Pottage.

Potager [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A porringer.

Potager [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A porringer.

Potagro [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. POTAG'RO

2. PO'TANCE, noun With watchmakers, the stud in which the lower pivot of the verge is placed.

Potagro [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Potargo.

Potale [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.

Potamian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.

Potamography [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An account or description of rivers; potamology.

Potamology [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A scientific account or discussion of rivers; a treatise on rivers; potamography.

Potamospongiae [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.

Potance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.

Potargo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of pickle imported from the West Indies.

Potargo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of sauce or pickle.

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Genesis 25:29

And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.

Genesis 25:30

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)

Genesis 25:34

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Genesis 37:36

And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.

Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

Genesis 39:1

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

Genesis 39:4

And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.

Genesis 39:6

And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.

So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

Genesis 39:10

And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

Genesis 39:16

And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:50

And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

Genesis 46:20

And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

Exodus 16:3

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

Exodus 16:33

And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.

So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.”

Exodus 27:3

And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

Exodus 38:3

And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.

Leviticus 6:28

But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.

The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.

Leviticus 11:33

And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.

If any of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.

Leviticus 11:34

Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:35

And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

Anything upon which one of their carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.