The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . king babe might have j;osrrf him. Lamb, .South-Sea House. pos6 (p6-za), a. [ pp. of 2>, jilace: see2>ose^.] In her., standing still, with all the feeton the ground; statant: said of a lion, horse,or other animal used as a bearing. posedt (pozd).;). a. [< jiose^ + -ed.] Balanced;sedate: opposed to Jligliti/. An old settled person of a most posed, staid, and gravebehaviour. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 19. (Dames.) Poseideon Poseideon (po-si
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . king babe might have j;osrrf him. Lamb, .South-Sea House. pos6 (p6-za), a. [ pp. of 2>, jilace: see2>ose^.] In her., standing still, with all the feeton the ground; statant: said of a lion, horse,or other animal used as a bearing. posedt (pozd).;). a. [< jiose^ + -ed.] Balanced;sedate: opposed to Jligliti/. An old settled person of a most posed, staid, and gravebehaviour. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 19. (Dames.) Poseideon Poseideon (po-siMe-im), . [lir. no(T(7(!f<jr: spp? The sixth inciiitlior tho aiii-iciit Athciiiaiiyai-, concs|iiiiiiliii^ to tlif liiltoi- liall iif oiuDl-Iciiilxr ami the first half of January. Poseidon (pv-siJon), «. [< Gr. Wnaniur: seedef.] 1. Ill (;r. )»////(., Olio of the chief Olym-pians, brother of Zons, and supreme hml of tliosea, sometimes looked upon as a benignant pro-moter of caliii and pros]ierous navi;;ation, butmore often us a terrible god of storm. Ilia con-sort was the Nereid Aiiipliitritc, and his attendant train. Poseidon overwhelming the Polyhotes, for whom Go or (on tlio left) makes intercession, (l^roni a Greek s-ase ofthe 4tli century B. c.) WHS composed of Nereids, Tritons, and sen-nionstera ofevery form. In art lie is a mnjestic tl^tirf, closely ap-proacliinp Zetis in type. His most conslaiil attiilintes arctile triilent and the ili>lphiM, with tlie horse, which he wasreputed to have createil dnrinj; his contest with Athenafor supremacy in Attica. The original Roman or ItidicNeptnne became assimilated to In roo/.: ((/) A geiiusof worms. (?)) A genusof hemipterous inseets of the family , Sll(?lll?ll,^S6^. ((•) A genus of (po-si-diiiii-an), a. [< Gr. IToof;-tStJivor, of Poseidon (< IVinin^ilw, Poseidoh), +-fiH.] Of or pertaining to Poseidon. Poseidon, the great and swarthy r
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