noun a staff or crutch.
2. potent ·noun a prince; a potentate.
3. potent ·adj producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
4. potent ·adj having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
5. potent ·adj powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
6. potent ·noun 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.