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Show B2O P Por'NTED. adj. or participle. [from point. 1. Sharp; having a fharp point or pique A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black Grew gibbous from behind Dryden 2. Epigrammatical ; aboundin ceits i con Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleafes His moral pleafes ye not his pointed Wit PorsTEDLY. adv a pointed manner [fro Pope pointed. our youth, and which only ferved to draw th prince to govern amifs, but proved no {ecurity t him, when th government Por'~teowness. #. /0 [from pointed. 1. Sharpnefs; pickednefs with afperity The vicious language is vaft and gaping, {welling and irregular; when it contends to be high, ful of rock, mountain, and pointednefs Ben Fonfon 2. Epigrammatical fmartnefs by the damnation of fouls Poi'sonous. adj. [from poifon.] Venomous; having the qualities of poifon Thofe cold ways That feem like prudent helps, are very poifonous Where the difeafe is violent Shakelp. Coriolanus Not Sirius fhoots a fiercer flame When with his pois'nsus breath he blafts the fky Dryden A lake, that has no frefh water running into it will, by heat and its ftagnation, turn into a ftink Derban ing rotten puddle, fending forth naufeous and poifon Tell him what are the wheels, fprings, gointer hammer, and bell, whereby a clock gives notic of the time 2. A dog that point {port{men Watts ou the gam ous fteams Por'NTinGsTOCK. n. f. [pointing an Sock. Something made the obje o ridicule Was made a wonder and a pointing floc Por'nrress adj not fharp Shakefp. Henry V1 [from point. Blunt obrafe Lay that pointlefs clergy-weapon by And to the laws, your fword of juftice, fly. Dryd POI'SON 1 n. /) [ poifon, French. That which deftroy by a fmall quantity no Er obviou 50 2 of fin th we muf onl remed renew it as ofte fins, that is, daily 70 Por'son Th repeat ou conven The fureft guard is innocence 3 Rofcommon b "poifo He was fo difcouraged, that he poifoncd himfel and died 2 Mac Drink with Walters, or with Chartres eat They'll never poifon you, they'll only cheat. Pope 3. To corrupt to taint Whofe welcome I perceiv'd had poifon'd mine. Sha Haft thou no With thy falfe arts poifun'd his people's loyalty th fchools ha my nature i Milton fro tha al mak forme quarter th toward the whol earth th compoun muf middle to ref charged upon Luther, by fuch as have live hal their days in a poize between two churches, Ase b A regulating power Men of an unbounde the poize of judgment imagination often wan Dryden Zo Po1zk. w. a. [ pefer, French. 1. To balance; to hold or place in equiponderance Ho nic Roae poifone 2.0 1be equiponderan If] the ba = aAnce of our lives ha n t couch ho be al he {peeche Sfd'n;:y Nor yet was carth fufpended in the tky Nor poiz'd did on her own foundation li , Dryden Qur nation with united int'reft bleft Not now content to y e, fhall fway the reft. Dry z. To load with weight Jd realon to poize an ther of fenfuality, (:E of our natures wo l ;]e ld con uct us to r conclufions 4 1o wgzgh "enef A Sbakefibepare's Ot to examine by the balan:{ g We poizing us in her defeéti e fca Shall weigh thee to the beam He cannot fincerely con b"/"'f['ear ider the frength 4, the weight, and difcern t e evidence of the c,leam argumentations, wher they would conclude 2 his defires f:lnb 5. To opprefs with weight T'll frive, with troubled t oughts, to take5 Left leaden flumber Poiz me down to-morrgy: When I fhoul POKE mount with wings g of viteorr y. Sh.0ak #./ [pocca Saxon; pocke, Fr. A pocket5 a fmall bag I will not buy a pig in a poke Camden's Remgins She fuddenly unties the poke Which out of it fent fuch a fmoke As ready was them all to choke So grievous was the pother. Drayt n's Nymphid M correfponden and poke fleeves writes againft mafter's gown Spettatur 70 PokE. @. a. [ poka, Swedit .] o fee] in the dark; to fearch any thin wit a long inftrument If thefe prefumed eyes be clipped off; w m k ufe of their protrufions or horns, an prk out their way as before Brogon Po'ker. 2. /i [from poke.] 'The i o bar with which men ftir the fire With poker fiery re Crack the ftones, and melt the lead Swif If the poker be out of the way, ftir the fir with «the ‘tongs Swif Po'kimG-stick. 7. /. An inftramenantciently made ufe of to adjuft the plait of the ruffs which were then worn they feorch your hands BMiddleton's Blurt Mafler Confiable, aCome yy 1602 Pins and poking-ficks of freel Shakefpeare Po'LaRr." adj. [ polaire, French; fro pole.] Found near the pole; lying nea the pole; iffuing"from the pole; relating to the pole As when two golar winds, blowingadverf Upon the Cronian fea Mountains of ice together driv Miltor's Paradife La I doub If any fuffer on the polar coaft The rage of Aréos, and eternal froft PoLa'riTY Priir 2. /. [from polar.] Tendenc to the pole 1 This polarity from refrigeration, upon cxtrem:i and defet of a loadftone, might touch n any where Brown's Vilgar Erro urs Po'Lary. adj. [ polaris, Latin.] Tendlflfi to the pole; having a direction towa the poles Irons, heated red hot, and cooled in the me H dian from North to South, .contmét a paler powe A nymph thus turn'd, but mended in tranfatio The other meflenger Notions with whic i in a poize Bentley's Sermons Lis odd to fee flutuation in opinion fo earneft needs no defence 2. To attack, injure, or kil iven Z"" equipoize ; equilibrium particle which woul @. a. [from the noun. Quivers and bows and peiforn'd dart Are only us'd by guilty hearts c Were equal poize of fin and charity Shakefpeare Where an equal poize of hope and fea z. Balance enfe 2 fprightly Wit ODt pofe get poking-flicks with fair long handles, le And fearful to be granted Shake[peare's Othello To do't at peril of your foul Duty of Man dear friend I T have fuit Does arbitrate th' event That I incline to hope As the fand Of Barca or Cyrene' torrig foil },va'd to fide wit warring winds, an 1 h?i lighter wing Milton's Para;d Where could they f nd anothey form‘df![ '1[0 poize with f:ol; Your ruff muft ftand in print, and for that pur It fhall be full of poize and difficulty 1. To infelt with poifon Virtue tendin Whofe falfe foundation waves have wafh' awa With dreadful poize, is from the main land reft Whe againtt the poifo as w Ainfworth He fell, as an huge rockie clift venom 2. Any thing infe@tious or malignant bein A graving tool Porze. n. /. [ poids, French. 1. Weight; force of any thin to the centre (elf was flain Dawies One give another a cup of poifsny-but at th fame time tells him it is a cordial, and fo he drink it off and dies South Thi o, [poictrel, poitrine, Fr Italian; pecforale, Latin. 1. Armour for the breaft ofa horfe. $4in ledge could attain on's power to kill tilereo South Por'sonousnrss. #. /. [from poifonous. "The quality of being poifonoas; venomoufnefs Themfelves were firft to do the ili V.ll-" poifonous. his tongue than his teeth or injares lif and by mean to the fenfes [fro leave behind in men's minds, and fo much m r pci/bzmuj]y and incurably does the ferpent bi e wit PormREL. pettorale I, his forlorn dutchefs adv Men more eafily pardon ill things done tha faid5 fuch a peculiar rancour and venom do th t The fcent grows warm; he ftops, he fprings hi prey Gay Cheyne Por'sovousLy Venomoufly The well-taught pointer leads the way y idle rafcal follower South weary of il Dawvenant Wretches who live upon other men's fins, th common poifoners of youth, getting their very brea Thefe ‘poifes or pointels are, for the moft part little balls, fet at the top of a flender ftalk, whic Por'NTER. #./. [from point. 1. Any thing that points grow 2. A corrupter 2. /.. Any thing on a point they can move every way at pleafure wer I muft be the poifore Of good Polixenes Shakefpeare So many mifchiefs were in one combin'd So much one fingle pois'zer coft mankind. Dryden Like Horace, you only expofe the follies o men 5 and in this excel him, that you add pointed#nefs of thought Dryden Por'ster peopl Por'son-TREE, 2. /. [toxicodendron. plant M l e Poc'sonEr. . A [frem poifi on. 1. One who poifons I The copioufnefs of his wit was fuch, tha he often writ too pointedly for his fubjeét. Dryden P+O A POLE. #. /. [ polus, Latin ; pole, Fr.] of the eart};é 1. The extremity of the axi either of the points on which the wo W; x?)fr.x the centre thrice to the utmoft po/e- Mil From gole to pol t u d r roarin th flafh lightning The fork D):ydfi roll a [Pa_k |