Pose

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A cold in the head; catarrh.

II. Pose ·vt To Interrogate; to Question.

III. Pose ·vt To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

IV. Pose ·adj Standing still, with all the feet on the ground;

— said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

V. Pose ·vt 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.

VI. Pose ·vi 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.

VII. Pose ·vt 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.

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