Vocabulary : Poake to Pocketed

Poake : Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.
Pocan : The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.
Pochard : See Poachard.
Pock : A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
Pockarred : See Pockmarked.

Pock-broken : Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.
Pocket : Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; ;; A bin for storing coal, grain, etc. ;; A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc. ;; A bight on a lee shore. ;; A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth. ;; One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven. ;; A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. ;; A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. ;; A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. ;; A hole containing water. ;; A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace. ;; Same as Pouch. ;; To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. ;; To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
Pocket veto : The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision (Const. Art. I., sec. 7, cl. 2): "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law." Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor.
Pocketbook : A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.
Pocketed : of Pocket

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