posse, posse comitatus
(noun) a temporary police force
Source: WordNet® 3.1
posse (plural posses)
A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd. [from 17th c.]
(now, historical, in later use chiefly, US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement. [from 17th c.]
Coordinate term: vigilante
(US) A search party.
(US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang. [from 20th c.]
(colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends. [from 20th c.]
• ESOPs, pesos, poses, s'pose, sopes, speos, spose
Source: Wiktionary
Pos"se, n.
Definition: See Posse comitatus. In posse. See In posse in the Vocabulary.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
