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n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea in the fourth century, who denied the proper humanity of Christ. [ 1913 Webster ]

An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Apollo, -linis, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Classic Myth.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the “sun god”), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; destroying, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to destroy utterly; &unr_; from, entirely + &unr_; to destroy. ] The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Black + poll head. ] (Zool.) A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blue + poll head. ] (Zool.) A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Castor and Pollux were twin sons of Jupiter and Leda. ] (Naut.) See Saint Elmo's fire, under Saint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chacepol, chacipol. ] A bailiff's assistant.

n. [ Clod + poll head. ] A stupid fellow; a dolt. [ Written also clodpole. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Clodpoll. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to fertilize by transfering pollen.
Syn. -- pollinate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Law) A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Perh. fr. OE. dodden to cut off, to shear, and first applied to shaven-polled priests. ] A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. équipollence. See Equipollent. ] 1. Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequipollens; aequus equal + pollens, -entis, p. pr. of pollere to be strong, able: cf. F. équipollent. ] 1. Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Logic) Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With equal power. Barrow.

a survey poll taken by interviewing voters as they leave (exit) the polling place, to determine how they voted and for what reasons; -- it is usually taken by news media to learn at an early time (often before the balloting has finished) who the winners are, and sometimes the reasons for the voters' choices. [ PJC ]

adj. producing little pollution, especially air pollution; as, a low-polluting electric car.
Syn. -- low-emission. [ PJC ]

n. [ From Polly, The proper name. ] A parrot; -- familiarly so called. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the many, the rabble. ] One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [ Cambridge Univ., Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to LG. polle the head, the crest of a bird, the top of a tree, OD. pol, polle, Dan. puld the crown of a hat. ] 1. The head; the back part of the head. “All flaxen was his poll.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are the greater poll, and in true fear
They gave us our demands. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. [ 1913 Webster ]

All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Zool.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

Poll book, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election. --
Poll evil (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. --
Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. --
Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Polled p. pr. & vb. n. Polling. ] 1. To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he [ Absalom ] pollled his head. 2 Sam. xiv. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed
That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To impose a tax upon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To pay as one's personal tax. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. [ 1913 Webster ]

Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent. [ 1913 Webster ]

And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee&unr_; poll. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

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To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To vote at an election. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish. ] (Zool.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A head or poll tax; hence, extortion. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gael. pollag a kind of fish. ] (Zool.) A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Poll the head. ] 1. A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) A fish, the chub. (b) A stag that has cast its antlers. (c) A hornless animal (cow or sheep). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pollarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Pollarding. ] To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A poleax. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr. &unr_; ] 1. Fine bran or flour. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. --
Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. --
Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. --
Pollen tube, a slender tube which issues from the pollen grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of meal or pollen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with pollen. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pollen + -ferous. ] (Bot.) Producing pollen; polliniferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pollénine. ] (Chem.) A substance found in the pollen of certain plants. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pollenized p. pr. & vb. n. Pollenizing ] To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Poll ] 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. ] Bacon. (d) One who registers voters, or one who enters his name as a voter. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pollices [ the thumb. ] (Anat.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pollex, pollicis, a thumb. ] (Zool.) Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; -- said of insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pollicitatio, fr. pollicitari to promise, v. intens. fr. polliceri to promise: cf. F. pollicitation. ] 1. A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Roman Law) A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Pollinose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Bot.) To apply pollen to (a stigma). -- Pol`li*na"tion n. (Bot.) [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ L., fr. pollingere. ] (Rom. Antiq.) One who prepared corpses for the funeral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Poll the head. ] 1. The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Plunder, or extortion. [ Obs. ] E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of voting, or of registering a vote. [ 1913 Webster ]

Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pollen, -inis, pollen + -ferous: cf. F. pollinifère. ] (Bot.) Producing pollen; polleniferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pollinia [ NL. See Pollen. ] (Bot.) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids. [ 1913 Webster ]