POLLENIN
POL'LENIN, noun [from pollen.] A substance prepared from the pollen of tulips, highly inflammable, and insoluble in agents which dissolve other vegetable products. Exposed to th...
Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
Search
Find a word or entry
Current letter
P
4.856 entries
POLLER
POLLER, noun [from poll.] One that shaves persons; a barber. [Not used.1. One that lops or polls trees.2. A pillager; a plunderer; one that fleeces by exaction. [Not used.]3. On...
POLLICITATION
POLLICITA'TION, noun [Latin pollicitatio.] A promise; a voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it.
POLLINCTOR
POLLINC'TOR, noun [Latin] One that prepares materials for embalming the dead; a kind of undertaker.
POLLINIFEROUS
POLLINIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin pollen and fero, to produce.]Producing pollen.
POLLOCK
POL'LOCKPOLLU'TE, verb transitive [Latin polluo; polluceo and possideo.]1. To defile; to make foul or unclean; in a general sense. But appropriately, among the Jews, to make unc...
POLLUTE
POLLU'TE, v.t. [L. polluo; polluceo and possideo.]1. To defile; to make foul or unclean; in a general sense. But appropriately, among the Jews, to make unclean or impure, in a l...
POLLUTED
POLLU'TED, participle passive Defiled; rendered unclean; tainted with guilt; impaired; profaned.
POLLUTEDNESS
POLLU'TEDNESS, noun The state of being polluted; defilement.
POLLUTER
POLLU'TER, noun A defiler; one that pollutes or profanes.
POLLUTING
POLLU'TING, participle present tense Defiling; rendering unclean; corrupting; profaning.
POLLUTION
POLLU'TION, noun [Latin pollutio.]1. The act of polluting.2. Defilement; uncleanness; impurity; the state of being polluted.3. In the Jewish economy, legal or ceremonial unclean...
POLLUX
POL'LUX, noun A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini or the Twins.1. [See Castor.]
POLONAISE
POLONA'ISEPOLONE'SE, noun A robe or dress adopted from the fashion of the Poles; sometimes worn by ladies.POLONE'SE, noun The Polish language.
POLONESE
POLONE'SE, n. A robe or dress adopted from the fashion of the Poles; sometimes worn by ladies.POLONE'SE, n. The Polish language.
POLONOISE
POLONOISE, noun In music, a movement of three crotchets in a bar, with the rhythmical cesure on the last.
POLT
POLT, noun A blow, stroke or striking; a word in common popular use in noun England.
POLT-FOOT
POLT-FOOT, noun A distorted foot. [Not in use.]POLT-FOOT
POLT-FOOTED
POLT-FOOTED, adjective Having distorted feet. [Not in use.]
POLTROON
POLTROON', noun An arrant coward; a dastard; a wretch without spirit or courage.
POLTROONERY
POLTROON'ERY, noun Cowardice; baseness of mind; want of spirit.
POLVERIN
POL'VERINPOL'VERINE, noun [Latin pulvis, dust.] The calcined ashes of a plant, of the nature of pot and pearl ashes, brought from the Levant and Syria. In the manufacture of gla...
POLVERINE
POL'VERINE, n. [L. pulvis, dust.] The calcined ashes of a plant, of the nature of pot and pearl ashes, brought from the Levant and Syria. In the manufacture of glass, it is pref...
POLY
PO'LYPOLYACOUS'TIC, adjective [Gr. many, and to hear.] That multiples or magnifies sound; as a noun, an instrument to multiply sounds.
POLYADELPH
POL'YADELPH, noun [Gr. many, and brother.1. In botany, a plant having its stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments.
POLYADELPHIAN
POLYADELPH'IAN, adjective Having its stamens united in three or more bundles.
POLYANDER
POLYAN'DER, noun [Gr. many, and a male.] In botany, a plant having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.