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

Fr. pousse.

POUST, s. Bodily strength, S.

O. Fr. poesté, pooste, id.

Pousté, Powsté, s. Power.
Douglas.
Lege poustie, full strength, i. e. legitima potestas.
Reg. Maj.

Pousture, s. Bodily ability. To lose the pousture of a limb, to lose the power of it, S. B.
Ruddiman.

POUT, s.
1. A young partridge or moor-fowl, S.
Acts Ja. VI.

Fr. poulet, a pullet; Lat. pullus.

2. The chicken of any domesticated fowl, S.
3. A young girl, a sweetheart.
Ross.

To Pout, v. n. To shoot at young partridges; also, to go a-pouting, to go to shoot at pouts, S.
Antiquary.

To POUT, POUTER, v. n. To poke, to stir with a long instrument, S.
Waverley.