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- English Word Portulacaceous Definition Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.
- English Word Porwigle Definition See Polliwig.
- English Word Pory Definition Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.
- English Word Pose Definition Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
- English Word Pose Definition A cold in the head; catarrh.
- English Word Pose Definition The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.
- English Word Pose Definition To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.
- English Word Pose Definition To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.
- English Word Pose Definition To interrogate; to question.
- English Word Pose Definition To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
- English Word Posed Definition of Pose
- English Word Posed Definition Firm; determined; fixed.
- English Word Poser Definition One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
- English Word Posied Definition Inscribed with a posy.
- English Word Posies Definition of Posy
- English Word Posing Definition of Pose
- English Word Posingly Definition So as to pose or puzzle.
- English Word Posit Definition To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.
- English Word Posit Definition To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.
- English Word Posited Definition of Posit