An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

L. B. postulari.

Wyntown.

POSTROME, s. A postern.
Bellenden.

L. B. posturium, id.

To POT, v. a. To stew in a pot, S.

POT, POTT, s.
1. A pit, a dungeon.
Douglas.
2. A pond or pit full of water, S.
Rudd.
3. A pool or deep place in a river, S.
Ruddiman.
4. A deep hole scooped out in a rock, by the eddies of a river, S.
Minstr. Bord.
5. A moss-hole from whence peats have been dug.
V. [Pete-pot].

Teut. put, fovea; lacuna, palus; given as synon. with pool.

POTARDS, s. pl. L. dotards.
More.

POTENT, adj. Wealthy, q. powerful in money, S.
Priests Peblis.

POTENT, s.
1. A gibbet.
Compl. S.
2. A crutch.
Gl. Sibb.