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1. To push, S.

_Bp. Forbes._

2. To drive clothes hastily backwards and forwards in the water in the act of was.h.i.+ng, S.

Teut. _polss-en int water_, quatere aquas.

~Pouss~, _s._ A push, S.

Fr. _pousse_.

POUST, _s._ Bodily strength, S.

O. Fr. _poeste_, _pooste_, id.

~Pouste~, ~Powste~, _s._ Power.

_Douglas._

_Lege poustie_, full strength, i. e. _legitima potestas_.

_Reg. Maj._

~Pousture~, _s._ Bodily ability. _To lose the pousture_ of a limb, to lose the power of it, S. B.

_Ruddiman._

POUT, _s._

1. A young partridge or moor-fowl, S.

_Acts Ja. VI._

Fr. _poulet_, a pullet; Lat. _pullus_.

2. The chicken of any domesticated fowl, S.

3. A young girl, a sweetheart.

_Ross._

_To_ ~Pout~, _v. n._ To shoot at young partridges; also, _to go a-pouting_, to go to shoot at _pouts_, S.

_Antiquary._

_To_ POUT, POUTER, _v. n._ To poke, to stir with a long instrument, S.