Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Pose (v. t.) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
(2) - Pose (v. t.) To interrogate; to question.
(3) - Pose (v. i.) 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.
(4) - Pose (v. t.) 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) - Pose (v. t.) 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.
(6) - Pose (n.) A cold in the head; catarrh.
(7) - Pose (a.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

(1) - Poser (n.) One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.

(1) - Posit (v. t.) To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.
(2) - Posit (v. t.) To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.