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

POW, POU, pron. poo, s.
1. A slow-moving rivulet in flat lands, S.
Statist. Acc.
2. A watery or marshy place, Stirlings.
Statist. Acc.
3. A small creek, affording a landing-place for boats, Clackm.
Statist. Acc.
4. The wharf itself, ibid.

Radically the same with E. pool.

POWART, s. A tadpole; powrit, Fife.
Statist. Acc.

POW-EE, s. A small fresh haddock, Montrose.

POW-HEAD, s. A tadpole; pron. powet, S. powie, Perths.
Gl. Tristrem.

Mod. Sax. pogghe, a frog, q. pogghe-hoofd, the head of a frog.

POWIN, s. The peacock.
Evergreen.

Fr. paon, id.

POWLINGS, s. pl. Some disease.
Montgomerie.

POWSOWDIE, s.
1. Sheepshead broth, q. poll-sodden.
Ritson.
2. Milk and meal boiled together, S. B.