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POSE, n. s as z. [See the Verb.] In heraldry, a lion, horse or other beast standing still, with all his feet on the ground.

POSE, n. s as z. A stuffing of the head; catarrh.

POSE, v.t. s as z. [L. posui.]

1. To puzzle, [a word of the same origin;] to set; to put to a stand or stop; to gravel.

Learning was pos'd, philosophy was set.

I design not to pose them with those common enigmas of magnetism.

2. To puzzle or put to a stand by asking difficult questions; to set by questions; hence, to interrogate closely, or with a view to scrutiny.


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POSE, n. s as z. [See the Verb.] In heraldry, a lion, horse or other beast standing still, with all his feet on the ground.

POSE, n. s as z. A stuffing of the head; catarrh.

POSE, v.t. s as z. [L. posui.]

1. To puzzle, [a word of the same origin;] to set; to put to a stand or stop; to gravel.

Learning was pos'd, philosophy was set.

I design not to pose them with those common enigmas of magnetism.

2. To puzzle or put to a stand by asking difficult questions; to set by questions; hence, to interrogate closely, or with a view to scrutiny.

POSE, n.1 [s as z. See the Verb.]

In heraldry, a lion, horse or other beast standing still, with all his feet on the ground. – Encyc.


POSE, n.2 [s as z. Sax. gepose.]

A stuffing of the head; catarrh. [Obs.] – Chaucer.


POSE, v.t. [s as z. W. posiaw, to pose, to make an increment, to gather knowledge, to investigate, to interrogate; pos, a heap, increment, growth, increase; posel, curdled milk, posset; Sax. gepose, heaviness, stuffing of the head. The primary sense is to set or fix, from thrusting or pressing, L. posui, Sp. posar, Fr. poser; hence the sense of collecting into a lump or fixed mass, Ch. and Syr. חבץ, to press, compress, collect, coagulate. Class Bs, No. 24. See also Ar. No. 21, 31, and No. 32, 33, 35, and others in that class.]

  1. To puzzle, [a word of the same origin;] to set; to put to a stand or stop; to gravel. Learning was pos'd, philosophy was set. – Herbert. I design not to pose them with those common enigmas of magnetism. – Glanville.
  2. To puzzle or put to a stand by asking difficult questions; to set by questions; hence, to interrogate closely, or with a view to scrutiny. – Bacon.

||Po`sé"
  1. Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
  2. A cold in the head; catarrh.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

    He . . . posed before her as a hero. Thackeray.

  6. To interrogate; to question.

    [Obs.] "She . . . posed him and sifted him." Bacon.
  7. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

    A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him. Barrow.

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Pose

POSE, noun s as z. [See the Verb.] In heraldry, a lion, horse or other beast standing still, with all his feet on the ground.

POSE, noun s as z. A stuffing of the head; catarrh.

POSE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin posui.]

1. To puzzle, [a word of the same origin; ] to set; to put to a stand or stop; to gravel.

Learning was pos'd, philosophy was set.

I design not to pose them with those common enigmas of magnetism.

2. To puzzle or put to a stand by asking difficult questions; to set by questions; hence, to interrogate closely, or with a view to scrutiny.

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