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THE

LONDON ENCYCLOPÆDIA.

VOL. XVIII. ·

POTASH TO ROME.

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.
Convivator annititur omnibus satisfacere ; et tamen si quid apponitur, quod hujus aut illius palato non respondeat, et hic et
ille urbane dissimulant, et alia fercula probant, ne quid contristent convivatorem.
Erasmus.

A reader should sit down to a book, especially of the miscellaneous kind, as a well-behaved visitor does to a banquet. The
master of the feast exerts himself to satisfy his guests; but if, after all his care and pains, something should appear on the
table that does not suit this or that person's taste, they politely pass it over without notice, and commend other dishes, that
they may not distress a kind host.
Translation.

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,
SYDNEY AND HOBART TOWN.

1839.

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THE

LONDON ENCYCLOPÆDIA.

POT, n. s.

to

Fr. and Belg. pot, in all
POTABLE, adj.
the senses; Islandic and
POTA'TION, n. s. Dan. potte; Goth. pott. A
POT HERE,
vessel in which meat is
POT'HOOK, -boiled; any vessel to hold
POT LID,
liquids; a cup:
to go
POT'SHERD, pot,' to be destroyed or
POTTAGE,
devoured: to pot is to pre-
POTTER.
serve in pots: potable is
drinkable: potation, a draught: potherb is a
Berb fit for boiling: pot-hook and pot-lid ex-
plain themselves: potsherd (pot and sherd, from
Belg. schaerde; properly potshard), a fragment of
a broken pot: pottage, any thing boiled for food.
Jacob sod pottage, and Esau came from the fie.a
faint.
Genesis.

The woman left her water-pot, and went her way.
John.
He on the ashes sits, his fate deplores;
And with a potsherd scrapes the swelling sores.
Sandys.

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Toad that under the cold stone Sweltered, venom sleeping got;

Philips.

Boil thou first i' th' charmed pot. Shakspeare.
But that I think his father loves him not,

Sir Tristram telling us tobacco was a potherb, bid the drawer bring in t'other half pint.

Tatler.

Suppose your eyes sent equal rays

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Upon two distant pots of ale,

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.
Id.

Not knowing which was mild or stale.

Prior.

He like the potter in a mould has cast
The world's great fame.

Id.

I learnt it in England, where they are most potent
Id. Othello.

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.

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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;
For great the man, and useful, without doubt,
Whose science keeps life in, and keeps death out.
Harte.

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