Definition of Potin

1. a type of alloy [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potin

potholing
pothook
pothooks
pothos
pothoses
pothouse
pothouses
pothunter
pothunters
pothunting
pothuntings
poticary
potiche
potiches
potichomania
potin (current term)
poting
potins
potion
potions
potjiekos
potlach
potlache
potlaches
potlatch
potlatched
potlatcher
potlatchers
potlatches
potlatching

Literary usage of Potin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology by Cornell University (1901)
"The original meaning in expressions of the type potin abeas, etc., seems to' have been ' go away ... 396 : potin ut animo sis quieto et facias quod jubeo ? ..."

2. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1910)
"With potin, etc.1 a) ORIGIN. The original meaning in expressions like potin ... 890, potin ut animo sis tranquillo; Most. 396, potin ut animo sis quieto; ..."

3. The Subjunctive Substantive Clauses in Plautus: Not Including Indirect Questions by Charles Love Durham (1901)
"The original meaning in expressions of the type potin abeas, etc., seems to have been ' go away ! ... 396 : potin ut animo sis quieto et facias quod jubeo ? ..."

4. The Metallic Alloys: A Practical Guide for the Manufacture of All Kinds of by Alfred Krupp, Andreas Wildberger, William Theodore Brannt (1888)
"By adding to ordinary cast-brass a certain quantity of lead and tin, a metal of a somewhat whiter color is obtained, which is called potin gris by the ..."

5. The Utilisation of Wood-waste by Ernst Hubbard (1902)
"Artificial Wood of Back and potin. Back and potin of Paris have invented a process for the manufacture of artificial wood, which yields very beautiful ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1884)
"potin [puh-ta1"],a kind of steel, XVI. 676, 2 c; XII. 535, 2 b. Potiphar's wife, IX. 686, 2 c. Like cases in classic legend, II. 504, 2 a ; XIII. 378, 2 ab. ..."

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