POIZE
POIZE, a common spelling of poise. [See Poise.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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POKE
POKE, noun A pocket; a small bag; as a pig in a pokePOKE
POKE-WEED
PO'KE-WEED, noun The popular name of a plant of the genus Phytolacca, otherwise called cocum and garget; a native of noun America. As a medicine, it has emetic and cathartic qua...
POKER
PO'KER, noun [from poke.] An iron bar used in stirring the fire when coal is used for fuel.PO'KER, noun [Latin bos, bovis.] Any frightful object, especially in the dark; a bugbe...
POKING
PO'KING, participle present tense Feeling in the dark; stirring with a poker; thrusting at with the horns; putting a poke on.PO'KING, adjective Drudging; servile.
POKING-STICK
PO'KING-STICK, noun An instrument formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs then worn.
POLACRE
POLA'CRE, noun A vessel with three masts, used in the Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, so that they have neither tops, caps nor cross-trees, nor horses to thei...
POLAR
PO'LAR, adjective1. Pertaining to the poles of the earth, north or south, or to the poles of artificial globes; situated near one of the poles; as polar regions; polar seas; pol...
POLARITY
POLAR'ITY, noun That quality of a body in virtue of which peculiar properties reside in certain points; usually, as in electrified or magnetized bodies, properties of attraction...
POLARIZATION
POLARIZA'TION, noun The act of giving polarity to a body.Polarization of light, a change produced upon light by the action of certain media, by which it exhibits the appearance ...
POLARIZE
PO'LARIZE, verb transitive To communicate polarity to.
POLARIZED
PO'LARIZED, participle passive Having polarity communicated to.
POLARIZING
PO'LARIZING, participle present tense Giving polarity to.
POLARY
PO'LARY, adjective [See Polar.] Tending to a pole; having a direction to a pole.
POLE
POLE, n. [L. palus. See Pale.]1. A long slender piece of wood, or the stem of a small tree deprived of its branches. Thus seamen use poles for setting or driving boats in shallo...
POLE-AX
PO'LE-AXPO'LE-AXE, noun An ax fixed to a pole or handle; or rather a sort of hatchet with a handle about fifteen inches in length, and a point or claw bending downward from the ...
POLE-AXE
PO'LE-AXE, n. An ax fixed to a pole or handle; or rather a sort of hatchet with a handle about fifteen inches in length, and a point or claw bending downward from the back of it...
POLE-DAVY
PO'LE-DAVY, noun A sort of coarse cloth.
POLE-STAR
PO'LE-STAR, noun A star which is vertical, or nearly so, to the pole of the earth; a lodestar. The northern pole-star is of great use to navigators in the northern hemisphere.1....
POLECAT
PO'LECAT, noun A quadruped of the genus Mustela; the fitchew or fitchet.
POLEMARCH
POL'EMARCH, noun [Gr. war, and to rule, or chief.]1. Anciently, a magistrate of Athens and Thebes, who had under his care all strangers and sojourners in the city, and all child...
POLEMIC
POLEM'ICPOLEM'ICAL, adjective [Gr. war.]1. Controversial; disputative; intended to maintain an opinion or system in opposition to others; as a polemic treatise, discourse, essay...
POLEMOSCOPE
POLEM'OSCOPE, noun [Gr. war, and to view.] An oblique perspective glass contrived for seeing objects that do not lie directly before the eye. It consists of a concave glass plac...
POLEY
PO'LEY, noun [Latin polium; Gr. white.] A plant. The poley grass is of the genus Lythrum.POLY, in compound words, is from the Greek, and signifies many; as in polygon, a figure ...
POLEY-GRASS
PO'LEY-GRASS, noun A plant of the genus Lythrum.
POLEY-MOUNTAIN
PO'LEY-MOUNTAIN, noun A plant of the genus Teucrium.
POLICE
POLICE, noun [Latin politia; Gr. city.]1. The government of a city or town; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city or incorporated town or borough; as the poli...