Vocabulary : Power to Pox

Power : Same as Poor, the fish. ;; Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power. ;; Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm. ;; Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance. ;; The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government. ;; The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spir
Powerable : Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. ;; Capable of exerting power; powerful.
Powerful : Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel. ;; Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.
Powerless : Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
Powldron : Same as Pauldron.

Powp : See Poop, v. i.
Powpow : A priest, or conjurer, among the North American Indians. ;; Conjuration attended with great noise and confusion, and often with feasting, dancing, etc., performed by Indians for the cure of diseases, to procure success in hunting or in war, and for other purposes. ;; Hence: Any assembly characterized by noise and confusion; a noisy frolic or gathering.
Powter : See Pouter.
Powwow : To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians. ;; Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.
Pox : Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases. ;; To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

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