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.

A bromide containing more than one atom of bromine in the molecule.

Composed of several or numerous carpels; -- said of such fruits as the orange.

Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year. Having several pistils in one flower.

One of the two principal groups of Ch/topoda. It includes those that have prominent parapodia and fascicles of set/. See Illust. under Parapodia.

A chloride containing more than one atom of chlorine in the molecule.

A government by many chiefs, princes, or rules.

A musical instrument of ten strings. An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.

A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.

Same as Pleochroism.

The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called because of the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- called also crocin, and safranin.

A compound which exhibits, or from which may be prepared, a variety of colors, as certain solutions derived from vegetables, which display colors by fluorescence.

Showing a variety, or a change, of colors.

Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome printing.

Polychromatic.

Of or pertaining to polychromy; many-colored; polychromatic.

The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.

Enduring through a long time; chronic.

A clinic in which diseases of many sorts are treated; especially, an institution in which clinical instruction is given in all kinds of disease.

Pertaining to, or based upon, many cones.

Representing multiple possible worlds; -- used of a computational ontology that includes logically inconsistent assertions (theories), structured as different possible worlds; as, the only way to accommodate different theories of physics in one ontology is for that ontology to be polycosmic.

A plant that has many, or more than two, cotyledons in the seed.

Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons.

Of or pertaining to polycrotism; manifesting polycrotism; as, a polycrotic pulse; a polycrotic pulse curve.

That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism.

One of the Polycystidea. One of the Polycystina. Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina.

A division of Gregarin/ including those that have two or more internal divisions of the body.

A division of Radiolaria including numerous minute marine species. The skeleton is composed of silica, and is often very elegant in form and sculpture. Many have been found in the fossil state.

Pertaining to the Polycystina. One of the Polycystina.

A division of Radiolaria. It includes those having one more central capsules.

The possession of more that the normal number of digits.

Excessive and constant thirst occasioned by disease.

See Polyhedron.

See Polyhedral.

Passing through several distinct larval forms; -- having several distinct kinds of young.

The quality or state of being polyeidic.

Consisting of, or having, several embryos; polyembryonic.

Polyembryonate.

The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.

Same as Multifoil.

A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polygalace/) of which Polygala is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, Polygala; specifically, designating an acrid glucoside (called polygalic acid, senegin, etc.), resembling, or possibly identical with, saponin.

A Linn/an class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant. A name given by Linn/us to file orders of plants having syngenesious flowers.

Polygamous.

One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.

One of the Polygastrica.

One of the Polygastrica.

The Infusoria.

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.

One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.

Consisting of, or containing, many kinds; as, a polygenous mountain.

The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.

One who speaks several languages.

Speaking many languages; polyglot.

A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any figure having many angles.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants (Polygonace/), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera.

Having many angles.

Having two or more broods in a season.

The doctrine of polygons; an extension of some of the principles of trigonometry to the case of polygons.

Polygonal.

A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.

Any plant of the genus Polygonum.

A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or Gymnotoma. See Loeven's larva.

A figure consisting of many lines.

An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

Pertaining to, or employed in, polygraphy; as, a polygraphic instrument.

Much writing; writing of many books.

Having many grooves; as, a polygrooved rifle or gun (referring to the rifling).

A plant of the order Polygynia.

A Linn/an order of plants having many styles.

One who practices or advocates polygyny.

Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.

The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives.

A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.

Having many sides, as a solid body.

A body or solid contained by many sides or planes.

Polyhedral.

One versed in various learning.