| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| polack | noun | A Polander. |
| polary | adjective | Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole. |
| polder | noun | A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. |
| poling | present participle & vb. noun | of Pole, The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat., The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles., One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc. |
| poleax | noun | Alt. of Poleaxe |
| polemy | noun | Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition. |
| police | noun | A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough., That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state., The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws., Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison., The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness., To keep in order by police., To make clean; as, to police a camp. |
| policy | noun | Civil polity., The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state., The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course., Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem., Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit., Motive; object; inducement., To regulate by laws; to reduce to order., A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds., The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance., A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy. |
| polish | adjective | Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants., The language of the Poles., To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc., Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners., To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well., A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster., Anything used to produce a gloss., Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners. |
| polite | verb | Smooth; polished., Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil., Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish; as, polite literature., To polish; to refine; to render polite. |
| polity | noun | The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole., Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution., Policy; art; management. |
| polive | noun | A pulley. |
| polled | imp. & past participle | of Poll, Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; — said of trees having their tops cut off. (b) Cropped; hence, bald; — said of a person. “The polled bachelor.” Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; — said of a stag. (d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep. |
| pollan | noun | A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring. |
| pollax | noun | A poleax. |
| pollen | noun | Fine bran or flour., The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. |
| poller | noun | One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex. (d) One who registplws votplws, or one who enters his name as a voter. |
| pollex | noun | The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing. |
| pollux | noun | A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini. Cf. 3d Castor., Same as Pollucite. |
| polony | noun | A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked. |
| polron | noun | See Pauldron. |
| polwig | noun | A polliwig. Holland. |
| polype | noun | See Polyp. |
| polypi | noun pl. | The Anthozoa., of Polypus |
| polyve | noun | A pulley. |