Having a head of flowers on a long peduncle, or footstalk.

Same as Basigynium

The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda.

The eyestalk of a crustacean.

Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels. Of or pertaining to the Podophthalmia.

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.

A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podophyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan Podophyllum Emodi.

A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.

The stalk of a seed or ovule.

An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura.

The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.

A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.

Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail.

Any species of Podura or allied genera. Pertaining to the poduras.

Same as Poi.

The parson bird.

Same as Poicile.

The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught.

Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks. Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors.

One of the P/cilopoda. Also used adjectively.

Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea). By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.

Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical.

A variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in New Zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons.

See Penology.

A group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies.

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art.

The works of a poetaster.

A female poet.

Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.

In a poetic manner.

The principles and rules of the art of poetry.

A poetaster.

To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.

The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

The state or personality of a poet.

An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.

See Porgy. A small whale.

The menhaden.

An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !

See Pauhaugen.

A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.

Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.

In a poignant manner.

See P/cilitic.

An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound an/mia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.

Poikilothermal.

A prickly tropical shrub (C/salpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

To impound, as cattle.

The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.

A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.

To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at.

the lead soldier in a foot patrol under combat conditions.

In a point-blank manner.

Exactly.

The pistil of a plant.

See Pointal.

One who, or that which, points. The hand of a timepiece. One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen. The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star. Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.

A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).

The act of sharpening.

An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.

Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.

Without point.

Having a small, distinct point; apiculate.

A graving tool.

A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.

To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt.

The balancer of dipterous insects.

To act as, or convey, a poison.

Capable of poisoning; poisonous.

One who poisons.

Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

Poisonous.[Obs.] Holland.

Weight.

The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See Peytrel.

See Poise.

A tall drinking cup.

The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.

The European long-tailed titmouse; -- called also poke-pudding.

Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Stiff like a poker.

A pocket.

See Poke, the plant.

See Poky.

Drudging; servile.

A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs.

Confined; cramped.

A vessel with two or three masts, used in the Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, and without tops, caps, or crosstrees.

A Polander.

Same as Polacca, 1.

A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.

The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree.

See Polyarchy.

See Polar.

In a polary manner; with polarity.

An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

The polestar. See North star, under North.

An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.

Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations.

The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.

Pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.

That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.

Susceptible of polarization.

To communicate polarity to.

That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal.

Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole.

A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene.

A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.

A kind of coarse bagging, -- used for coal sacks.

Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

To fell with or as if with a poleax; -- often used figuratively; as, the entire department was poleaxed after the takeover.

Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius f/tidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret. The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.

A sort of coarse canvas; poldway.

Without a pole; as, a poleless chariot.