Vocabulary : Potcher to Potential

Potcher : One who, or that which, potches.
Potecary : An apothecary.
Poteen : Alt. of Potheen ;; Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry.
Potelot : Molybdenum sulphide.
Potence : Potency; capacity.

Potency : The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence.
Potent : Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine. ;; Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince. ;; Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument. ;; A prince; a potentate. ;; A staff or crutch. ;; One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
Potentacy : Sovereignty.
Potentate : One who is potent; one who possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch.
Potential : Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. ;; Existing in possibility, not in actuality. ;; Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially. ;; In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center. ;; The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.

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