pose

Common cold, head cold; catarrh.

Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.

Megg yesterday was troubled with a pose, Which, this night hardned, sodders up her nose.

To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

To pose a model for a picture.

To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).

To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).

Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.

Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.

To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.

To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.

He […] posed before her as a hero.

Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).

Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.

Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].

Affectation.