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Potter \Pot"ter\, n. [Cf. F. potier.]
1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. --Ps. ii.
9.
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The potter heard, and stopped his wheel.
--Longfellow.
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2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] --De
Quincey.
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3. One who pots meats or other eatables.
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4. (Zool.) The red-bellied terrapin. See {Terrapin}.
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{Potter's asthma} (Med.), emphysema of the lungs; -- so
called because very prevalent among potters. --Parkers.
{Potter's clay}. See under {Clay}.
{Potter's field}, a public burial place, especially in a
city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so
named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in
--Matt. xxvii. 7.
{Potter's ore}. See {Alquifou}.
{Potter's wheel}, a horizontal revolving disk on which the
clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. "My
thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel." --Shak.
{Potter wasp} (Zool.), a small solitary wasp ({Eumenes
fraternal}) which constructs a globular nest of mud and
sand in which it deposits insect larv[ae], such as
cankerworms, as food for its young.
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Wasp \Wasp\, n. [OE. waspe, AS. w[ae]ps, w[ae]fs; akin to D.
wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ.
osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous
insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus
{Vespa}, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of
which are called {yellow jackets}.
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Note: The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a
substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and
protect them by a paperlike covering. The larvae are
reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and
insect larvae brought to them by the adults, but the
latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers,
and on the sweet juices of fruit. See Illust. in
Appendix.
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{Digger wasp}, any one of numerous species of solitary wasps
that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the
ground, as the sand wasps. See {Sand wasp}, under {Sand}.
{Mud wasp}. See under {Mud}.
{Potter wasp}. See under {Potter}.
{Wasp fly}, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a
sting.
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