POLICE-OFFICER
POLICE-OFFICER, noun An officer entrusted with the execution of the laws of a city.
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POLICED
POL'ICED, adjective Regulated by laws; furnished with a regular system of laws and administration.
POLICY
POL'ICY, noun [Latin politia; Gr. city.]1.policy in its primary signification, is the same as polity, comprehending the fundamental constitution or frame of civil government in ...
POLING
PO'LING, noun In gardening, the operation of dispersing the worm-casts all over the walks, with long ash poles. This destroys the worm-casts and is beneficial to the walks.PO'LI...
POLISH
PO'LISH, adjective Pertaining to Poland, a level country on the south of Russia and the Baltic.POL'ISH, verb transitive [Latin polio.]1. To make smooth and glossy, usually by fr...
POLISHABLE
POL'ISHABLE, adjective Capable of being polished.
POLISHED
POL'ISHED, participle passive Made smooth and glossy; refined.
POLISHER
POL'ISHER, noun The person or instrument that polishes.
POLISHING
POL'ISHING, participle present tense Making smooth and glossy; refining.POL'ISHING, noun Smoothness; glossiness; refinement.
POLITE
POLI'TE, adjective [Latin politus, polished, from polio, supra.]1. Literally, smooth, glossy, and used in this sense till within a century.Rays of light falling on a polite surf...
POLITELY
POLI'TELY, adverb With elegance of manners; genteelly; courteously.
POLITENESS
POLI'TENESS, noun Polish or elegance of manners; gentility; good breeding; ease and gracefulness of manners, united with a desire to please others and a careful attention to the...
POLITIC
POL'ITIC, adjective [Latin politicus; Gr. a city.]1. Wise; prudent and sagacious in devising and pursuing measures adapted to promote the public welfare; applied to persons; as ...
POLITICAL
POLIT'ICAL, adjective [supra.] Pertaining to policy, or to civil government and its administration. political measures or affairs are measures that respect the government of a n...
POLITICALLY
POLIT'ICALLY, adverb With relation to the government of a nation or state.1. Artfully; with address.
POLITICASTER
POLIT'ICASTER, noun A petty politician; a pretender to politics.
POLITICIAN
POLITI'CIAN, adjective Cunning; using artifice.POLITI'CIAN, noun One versed in the science of government and the art of governing; one skilled in politics.1. A man of artifice o...
POLITICS
POL'ITICS, noun The science of government; that part of ethics which consists in the regulation and government of a nation or state, for the preservation of its safety, peace an...
POLITIZE
POL'ITIZE, verb intransitive To play the politician. [Not in use.]
POLITURE
POL'ITURE, noun [See Polish.]Polish; the gloss given by polishing. [Not used.]
POLITY
POL'ITY, noun [Gr.] The form or constitution of civil government of a nation or state; and in free states, the frame or fundamental system by which the several branches of gover...
POLL
POLL, noun1. The head of a person, or the back part of the head, and in composition, applied to the head of a beast, as in poll-evil.2. A register of heads, that is, of persons....
POLL-EVIL
POLL-EVIL, noun [poll and evil.] A swelling or impostem on a horse's head, or on the nape of the neck between the ears.
POLLACK
POL'LACK, noun A fish, a species of Gadus or cod.
POLLARD
POL'LARD, noun [from poll.] A tree lopped.1. A clipped coin.2. The chub fish.3. A stag that has cast his horns.4. A mixture of bran and meal.POL'LARD, verb transitive To lop the...
POLLEN
POL'LEN, noun [Latin pollen pollis, fine flour; pulvis.]1. The fecundating dust or fine substance like flour or meal, contained in the anther of flowers, which is dispersed on t...
POLLENGER
POL'LENGER, noun Brushwood.