THE LONDON ENCYCLOPÆDIA, OR UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, ART, LITERATURE, AND PRACTICAL MECHANICS, COMPRISING A POPULAR VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE. ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS, A GENERAL ATLAS, AND APPROPRIATE DIAGRAMS. Sic oportet ad librum, presertim miscellanei generis, legendum accedere lectorem, ut solet ad convivium conviva civilis. A reader should sit down to a book, especially of the miscellaneous kind, as a well-behaved visitor does to a banquet. The BY THE ORIGINAL EDITOR OF THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA METROPOLITANA, ASSISTED BY EMINENT PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER GENTLEMEN. IN TWENTY-TWO VOLUMES. VOL. XVIII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, 73, CHEAPSIDE; R. GRIFFIN & Co., GLASGOW; TEGG AND CO., DUBLIN; ALSO J. & S. A. TEGG, 1839. THE LONDON ENCYCLOPÆDIA. POT, n. s. to Fr. and Belg. pot, in all The woman left her water-pot, and went her way. Toad that under the cold stone Sweltered, venom sleeping got; Philips. Boil thou first i' th' charmed pot. Shakspeare. Sir Tristram telling us tobacco was a potherb, bid the drawer bring in t'other half pint. Tatler. Suppose your eyes sent equal rays Upon two distant pots of ale, My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel. Not knowing which was mild or stale. Prior. He like the potter in a mould has cast Id. I learnt it in England, where they are most potent in potting. Thou best of gold art worst of gold, Other less fine in carat is more precious, Preserving life in medicine potable. Shakspeare. If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them, should be to forswear thin petations, and to addict themselves to sack. Id. Henry IV. At this day at Gaza, they couch potsherds of vessels of earth in their walls to gather the wind from the top, and pass it in spouts into rooms. Bacon's Natural History. Dig a pit upon the sea shore, somewhat above the high-water mark; and sink it as deep as the lowwater mark; and, as the tide cometh in, it will fill with water fresh and potable. John's ready money went into the lawyers' pockets; then John began to borrow money upon the bank stock, now and then a farm went to pot. Arbuthnot's History of John Bull. an excellent nourishment; amongst those are the Of alimentary leaves, the olera or potherbs afford cole or cabbage kind. Arbuthnot. The columella is a fine, thin, light, bony tube, the semblance of a wooden potlid in country houses. bottom of which spreads about, and gives it the re Derham. A soldier drinks his pot, and then offers payment. Swift. Leaves eaten raw are termed sallad; if boiled, they become potherbs: and some of those plants which are pot-herbs in one family, are sallads in another. Watts. Who seasons pottage, or expels the gout; VOL. XVII-Part 1. |