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Pose
Webster's Dictionary
or (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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pose'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pose.html. 1828.
