Pose

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( a.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; - said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

(2): ( v. t.) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

(3): ( v. t.) To interrogate; to question.

(4): ( 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.

(5): ( 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): ( n.) A cold in the head; catarrh.

(7): ( 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.

King James Dictionary

Pose, n. s as z. See the Verb. In heraldry, a lion, horse or other beast standing still, with all his feet on the ground.

Pose, n. s as z. A stuffing of the head catarrh.

Pose, s as z. L. posui.

1. To puzzle, a word of the same origin to set to put to a stand or stop to gravel.

Learning was pos'd, philosophy was set.

I design not to pose them with those common enigmas of magnetism.

2. To puzzle or put to a stand by asking difficult questions to set by questions hence, to interrogate closely, or with a view to scrutiny.