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Poring
- verb - direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
Posing
- verb - (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); "he wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting"
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
- be a mystery or bewildering to;
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
- introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
- put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
Potent
- adjective - (of a male) capable of copulation
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"
- having great influence
- having or wielding force or authority; "providing the ground soldier with increasingly potent weapons"
Poyang
- noun - a lake in central China that is connected to the Chang Jiang by a canal
Prawns
- noun - any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- fish for prawns
- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
Preens
- verb - clean with one's bill; "The birds preened"
- dress or groom with elaborate care; "She likes to dress when going to the opera"
- pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
Prions
- noun - (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system
- Prion, also called Whalebird, any of several species of small Antarctic seabirds of the genus Pachyptila, in the family Procellariidae (order Procellariiformes).
Procne
- unknown - Philomela's sister