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Show P OL PO ftand to it, you will not pocket up wron ase Shakefp the fubje@ is always the praifes of Adam, Noah To half the profit ing for the nativity of our Saviour H lays his clai half the fame And helps to pocket up the game Prisre Po'ckeTBoOK. 7. /. [ pocker and book.] paper- book carried in the pocket fo hafty notes Licinius le reft, and kep pocketbook Note dow book, and tak folved out the offals of his mecat to intea regifter of fuch debtors in hi Arbuthnot the matters of doubt in fome pocketthe firft opportunity to get them reWatts Po'ckercrass. n. /. [ pocket and glafs. Portable looking-glafs The world's a farce, an empty fhow Powder, and pocketglaf, and beaux Prior And vanity with pocketglafs And impudence wit front of brafs Swwift's Mifc Po'ckHOLE. 7. /. [pock and hole. or fcar made by the {fmallpox Pi Are thefe but warts and pockboles in the fac Donne O' th' earth Po'ckiInNEss Th pocky. n.f. [fro ftate of being pocky Po'cky. adj. [from pox. the pox Infelted wit My father's love lies thus in my bones I migh in Perfia have loved all the pocky whore and hav Denbam's Sophy felt it lefs in my bones Po'cuLENT. adj for drink [poculum, Latin. Fi Some of thefe herbs, which are not efculent, ar notwithftanding pocu/ent5 as hops and broom. Bac Pop. #. /. [bode, boede, Dutch, a littl The capfule of lehoufe. Skinner. gumes ; the'cafe of feeds To raife tulips, fave the feeds which are ripe when the peds begin to open at the top, which cu off with the ftalks from the root, and keep the pod upright, that the feed do not fall oute Mortimer Popa'GricAL adj. [modayginic, moddyen from podagra, Latin.] 1. Afflited with the gout From a magnetical altivity muft be made out that a loadftone, held in the hand of one that i podagrical, doth either cure or give great eafe in th gout Brown's Vulgar Errours 2 Gouty relating to the gout A gathere Po'DDER. z./. [from pod. of peafecods, beans, and other pulfe Disa PopGe »./ A puddle Po'em n. f [poéma a plath Siin moinue. Latin The work of a poet; a metrical compofition A poem is not 2lone any work of the poets in many or few verfes or compofitio buteven on alone verfe fometimes makesa perfec pocm. B. Fanf The lady Anne of Bretaigne, pafiing throug the prefence of France, and efpying Chartier, famous poet, faft afleep, kifling him, faid, w muft honour the mouth whence fo many golde Peacham on Poetry poems have proceeded Dryden T'o you the promis'd poem I will pay Po'esy n. [. [poefie, French; poefis, Lat 'ITO;VL'/ig 1. The art of writing poems A poem is the work of the poet; goefy is hi kil or craft of making th ver fiction itfelf the reafon or form of the work Ben Fonfon How far have w 2. Poem hiftory in an em blem or piece of chriftian poely Brown's Vul. Err apprehen Dryden Shakefp The:e is an hymn, for they have excellent poefy the poet Bacon a veritabl The OETRY write Spocrd,-laati an author o of poems on of time, place and aétion fhould be explaine the reader fidered The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rowling Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth t heav'n And, as imagination bodies fort The forms of things unknown, the poez's pe Turns them to fhape, and gives to ev'ry th Shakefpeare A local habitation and a name Our pret's ape, who would be thought the chief His works become the frippery of wit From brocage he is grown fo bold a thief While we the robb'd defpife, and pity it. Ber Forf 'Tis not vain or fabulou What the fage poets, taught by the heav'nly mufe Story'd of old in high immortal verfe Milton Of dire chimeras and enchanted ifles Ah'! wretched we, poets of earth, but tho POETA'STER n. / [Latin. I fat quietly down at my morfel, adding only principle of hatred to all fucceeding meafures b way of fauce; and one point of condut in th dutchefs's life added much poignancy toit No poignant fauce fhe knew, nor coftly treat Her hunger gave a relifh to her meat The ftudiou out the poifonous vapour, is not the mercy greate than the feverity of the cure South's Sermons Full three long hours his tender body did fuftai Moft exquifite and poignant pain Norris's Mifee 7. Irritating; fatirical ; keen POINT. #. /. [poin&, point, French. 1. The fharp end of any inftrument, o body The thorny poin Of bare diftrefs hath ta'en from me the fhe Shakcfpeare's As you like it Of fmooth fidelity That bright beam, whofe point now rais'd Milon Bore him flope downward A pyramid reverfed may ftand for a while upo Tenple its point, if balanced by admirable fkill Doubts if he wielded not a wooden fpea Without a point ; he look'd, the point Was there Diyden Would the gods had made you poetical Por'T1cALLY. adv. [from poetical.] Wit the qualities of poetry; by the fittio of poetry The criticks have concluded, that the manner of the heroes are poerically good, if of a piece. Dry The many rocks, in the paflage between Greec and the botto of Pontus aie poetically converte Raleigh @w. n. [peetifer, French To write like a poet I verfify the truth, not poetize Donne Virgil, fpeaking of Turnus and his great ftrength thus poetizie Po'erTrEss Hakeavill # / [from peetris Latin painful If God makes ufe of fome poignant difeafe to le Rogfmrck poeticus, Lat.] Exprefle in poetry; pertaining ‘to poetry; fuitable to poetry Though mark'd by none but quick poetick eyes. Pope I alone can infpire the poctical crowd Savift whofe will was never deter 2. Severe ; piercing foetique, Fr -TI do not know what poetical is -The trueft poetry is moft feigning. Shakefpeare With courage guard, and beauty warm our age Waller And lovers fill with like pocrick rage The moral of that peetical fi€tion, that the uppermoft link of all the feries of fubordinate caufes i faftened to Jupiter's chair, fignifies that almight God governs and diredts fubordinate caufes an Hale effedts Neither is it enough to give his author's fenf in good Englifh, in poetical expreflions and in mufical numbers Dryden The mufe faw it upward rife man Dryden mined to poignant fauces and delicious wine, i by hunger and thirft, determined to eating an drinking Lacke n./. [from poct; pica poetria A fhe poet [warlxic Swift 2. ‘The power of irritation; afperity POI'GNANT. adj. [ poignant, French. 1. Sharp; ftimulating the palate Let no poetafter command or intrea Poe'ricar. ) adj Addzjanvssfitflam' Por'enancy. z. /. [from poignant 1. The power of ftimulating the palate fharpnefs petty poet Po'eTEss Latin. few of the criticoks hay € con. She taketh moft deligh In mufick, infiruments, and peetry. Shakefpesrs A vil Ben Fonfon Another, extempore verfes to make Begin not as th' old poetaffer did Troy's famous war, and Priam's fate I fing. Rofcom Horace hath expofed thofe trifling poetaffers, tha {pend themfelves in glaring defcriptions, and fewing here and there fome cloth of gold on thei fackcloth Felton whic 2. Poems; poetical pieces Wert living the fame poes that thou'rt now ‘While angels fing to thee their aites divine Cozvley Andjoy in an applaufe fo great as thine A poet is a maker, as the word fignifies; an he who cannot make, that is invent, hath his nam Dryden for nothing th; is ftill fomething that gives a greatnefs of mi'nd tr wh writes in meafure [from poet. Strike the beft invention dead Till baffled poetry han'gs down the head, Cl avelayg Although in poctry it be neceffary that the unit Upon a knife; Love me, and leave me not. Shak 7 / s[fflfir. 1. Metrical compofition ; the art or pr tice of writing poems For all the world like cutler's poetr fition s g 'l:}j?‘true Pandora of all heuvenly graces A paltry ring, whofe poefy wa POET . n. if. [ poete; Br An inventor woilns. Moft peeilefs poetrefs 3. A fhort conceit engraved on a ring o other thing Jo PoeT1i'zE from poet. metrical compofition; poetry Mufick and pocfy ufe to quicken you ever with a thankfgiv into thofe. fiery bulls Prophan'd thy heay'nly gift of poefy Made proftitute and profligate the mufe ‘W hofe harmony was firft ordain'd abov For tongues of angels concludin and Abraham whence poetridas picas in Perfy 2, A ftring with a tag If your fon have not the day For a filken point I'll give my baronry. Sb?"f@'"" H hat ribband of all colours; pants .lfl than all the lawyers can learnediy handle 1 am refolved on two points That if one break, the other will hold Or if both break, your gafkins fall Shakefps Sbahj;o:m King James was wont to fay, that the ?Uk; Buckingham had given him 2 groom of his p Clarendon poirts hi truf no coul wH ¢hamber . Headland ; promontory gi t? ep th e gi ha gi Vi h V\ 1 don't fe : Ic th e lo c m i i w t h o Alta to P g DE it hi wi li th la and all the points o [A:':llj]: bourhood joram ; fe r t b k t w 4 M of words or thought 5 ; e n f d o c w He taxes Lucan t i p o fu t w a gether s, im c' le ,! U} th o u n g t f e Studious to p o lf r fl h e o t a With periods, point ; i l z x l ' o r b He robb'd not, but h r t n Times corrupt, an Pe behind n ft le a t n' pf t Produc' . ; P & 5. An indivifible part We fometimes fpeak of fpace, o |