noun

• (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
  "Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses."

verb

• (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
  "To pose a model for a picture."
• (transitive) To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
  "Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world."
• (transitive, in the phrase "to pose as") To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.

verb

• (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
  "And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them."
• (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).