producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.-having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.-powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.-a prince; a potentate.-a staff or crutch.-one of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.