Potent

1. n. 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.
2. a. Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful’ efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
3. a. Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
4. a. Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
5. n. A prince; a potentate.
6. n. A staff or crutch.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.