Pot | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Pŏt, n.

noun

n. [L. Ger. pott, putt, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, potta, Fr. & Pr. pot, Sp. & Pg. pote, W. pot, Armor. pôd, Gael. poit, Ir. potu, potadh, puite.]

Sense 1. A large metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquors, for plants, and the like.

Sense 2. A cup, as for holding liquors; a mug.

Sense 3. The quantity contained in a pot; as, a pot of ale.

He carries her into a public house to give her a pot and a cake. De Foe.

Sense 4. A sort of paper, in small-sized sheets. [Written also pott.]

To go to pot, to be destroyed, ruined, wasted, or expended. [Colloq.]

Pŏt, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. POTTED; p. pr. & vb. n. POTTING.] To place or inclose in pots; as, (a.) To preserve seasoned. “Potted fowl and fish.” Dryden. (b.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs. Mortimer. (c.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, &c., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off. Edwards.

Pōt, v. i.

verbintransitive

To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]