One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.

Polemic; controversial; disputatious.

A polemic.

The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.

A polemic.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polemoniace/), which includes Polemonium, Phlox, Gilia, and a few other genera.

A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.

An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects that do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal opera glass, or side opera glass.

Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition.

Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal.

An extortioner. See Poller.

Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.

Toward a pole of the earth.

The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also pollybait.

Without horns; polled.

Manganese dioxide, occurring in tetragonal crystals nearly as hard as quartz.

Same as Pollicate.

To keep in order by police.

Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration.

A member of a body of police; a constable.

Relating to the police.

Policed.

A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.

The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.

A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.

Capable of being polished.

Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.

The quality of being polished.

One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.

a. n. from Polish.

The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.

A polishing or grinding implement or instrument.

To polish; to refine; to render polite.

In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy.

High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.

Politeness.

A politician.

Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.

Zeal or party spirit in politics.

In a political manner.

A petty politician; a pretender in politics.

Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.

A political writer.

In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully.

The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

To play the politician; to dispute as politicians do.

Polish; gloss. [Obs.] Donne.

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.

The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air up the nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof. Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it.

A pulley.

A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time.

To vote at an election.

A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack. The American pollock; the coalfish.

A head or poll tax; hence, extortion.

A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring.

To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.

A poleax.

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.

Fine bran or flour.

Consisting of meal or pollen.

Producing pollen; polliniferous.

A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.

To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.

One who polls; One who polls or lops trees. One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. One who extorts or plunders. One who registers voters, or one who enters his name as a voter.

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.

Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; -- said of insects.

A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise.

To apply pollen to (a stigma).

One who prepared corpses for the funeral.

The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.

Producing pollen; polleniferous.

A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.

Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.

A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.

A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and c/sia. Called also pollux.

Polluted.

Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.

One who pollutes.

Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution.

The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.

A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini. Cf. 3d Castor.

A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot.

A polliwig.

A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

The Polish language.

See Polonaise.

A radioactive chemical element, discovered by M. and MMe. Curie in pitchblende, and originally called radium F. It has atomic number 84 and an atomic weight of 210. It is a very rare natural element, having an abundance in uranium ores only 0.2% that of radium. It is closely related chemically to bismuth. It emits only alpha rays, and has a half-life of 138 days. It is thus more unstable than radium, and a milligram of polonium emits as many alpha particles as 5 grams of radium. Twenty-seven isotopes are known, with atomic masses from 192 to 218. At present a more practical method of preparation than isolation from ores is the preparation by neutron bombardment of bismuth in a nuclear reactor, and it may be obtained commercially by users having an appropriate permit.

A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.

See Pauldron.

A blow or thump. Distorted.

Having a distorted foot, or a clubfoot or clubfeet.

Base; vile; contemptible; cowardly.

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

Resembling a poltroon; cowardly.

Glassmaker's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, -- used in the manufacture of fine glass.

A polliwig. Holland.

A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order Labiat/, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus.

A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as, polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms; polychord, polyconic.

Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.

Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monobasic acid; having more than one hydrogen atom capable of being replaced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.

Multiplying or magnifying sound. A polyacoustic instrument.

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

A solid having many summits or angular points; a polyhedron.

An old name for those Anthozoa which, like the actinias, have numerous simple tentacles.

A Linn/an class of plants having stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.

Belonging to the class Polyadelphia; having stamens united in three or more bundles.

A Linn/an class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

Polyandrous.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, polyandry; mating with several males.

Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.

The oxlip. So called because the peduncle bears a many-flowered umbel. See Oxlip. (b) A bulbous flowering plant of the genus Narcissus (Narcissus Tazetta, or Narcissus polyanthus of some authors). See Illust. of Narcissus.

One who advocates polyarchy; -- opposed to monarchist.

A government by many persons, of whatever order or class.

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms. Having a valence greater than one.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.

An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.

A division of Nudibranchiata including those which have numerous branchi/ on the back.