POLT — POMPOUSLY NWAD POLT.1

POLT, n. A blow, stroke or striking; a word in common popular use in N. England. NWAD POLT.1

POLT-FOOT, n. A distorted foot. [Not in use.] NWAD POLT-FOOT.1

POLT-FOOT, POLT-FOOTED, a. Having distorted feet. [Not in use.] NWAD POLT-FOOT.2

POLTROON, n. An arrant coward; a dastard; a wretch without spirit or courage. NWAD POLTROON.1

POLTROONERY, n. Cowardice; baseness of mind; want of spirit. NWAD POLTROONERY.1

POLVERIN, POLVERINE, 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 preferred to other ashes, as the glass made with it is perfectly white. NWAD POLVERIN.1

POLY, POLEY, n. [L. polium; Gr. white.] A plant. The poley grass is of the genus Lythrum. NWAD POLY.1

POLY, in compound words, is from the Greek, and signifies many; as in polygon, a figure of many angles. NWAD POLY.2

POLYACOUSTIC, a. [Gr. many, and to hear.] That multiples or magnifies sound; as a noun, an instrument to multiply sounds. NWAD POLYACOUSTIC.1

POLYADELPH, n. [Gr. many, and brother.] NWAD POLYADELPH.1

1. In botany, a plant having its stamens united in three or more bodies or bundles by the filaments. NWAD POLYADELPH.2

POLYADELPHIAN, a. Having its stamens united in three or more bundles. NWAD POLYADELPHIAN.1

POLYANDER, n. [Gr. many, and a male.] In botany, a plant having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle. NWAD POLYANDER.1

POLYANDRIAN, a. Having many stamens, that is, any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle. NWAD POLYANDRIAN.1

POLYANDRY, n. [supra.] The practice of females’ having more husbands than one at the same time; plurality of husbands. NWAD POLYANDRY.1

POLYANTH, POLYANTHOS, n. [Gr. many, and a flower.] A plant of the genus Primula or primrose, whose flower stalks produce flowers in clusters. NWAD POLYANTH.1

POLYAUTOGRAPHY, n. [Gr. many, he himself, and to write.] NWAD POLYAUTOGRAPHY.1

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one’s own handwriting or of manuscripts, by engraving on stone; a species of lithography. NWAD POLYAUTOGRAPHY.2

POLYCHORD, a. [Gr. many and chord.] NWAD POLYCHORD.1

Having many chords or strings. NWAD POLYCHORD.2

POLYCHREST, n. [Gr. many, and useful.] In pharmacy, a medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases. NWAD POLYCHREST.1

POLYCHROITE, n. [Gr. many, and to color.] NWAD POLYCHROITE.1

The coloring matter of saffron. NWAD POLYCHROITE.2

POLYCOTYLEDON, n. [Gr. many, and a cavity.] In botany, a plant that has many or more than two cotyledons or lobes to the seed. NWAD POLYCOTYLEDON.1

POLYCOTYLEDONOUS, a. Having more than two lobes to the seed. NWAD POLYCOTYLEDONOUS.1

POLYEDRIC, POLYEDROUS. [See Polyhedron and Polyhedral.] NWAD POLYEDRIC.1

POLYGAM, POLYGAMIAN, n. [Gr. many, and marriage.] In botany, a plant which bears hermaphrodite flowers, with male or female flowers, or both, not inclosed in the same common calyx, but scattered either on the same plant, or on two or three distinct individuals. NWAD POLYGAM.1

POLYGAMIAN, a. Producing hermaphrodite flowers, with male or female flowers, or both. NWAD POLYGAMIAN.1

POLYGAMIST, n. [See Polygamy.] A person who maintains the lawfulness of polygamy. NWAD POLYGAMIST.1

POLYGAMOUS, a. Consisting of polygamy. NWAD POLYGAMOUS.1

1. Inclined to polygamy; having a plurality of wives. NWAD POLYGAMOUS.2

POLYGAMY, n. [Gr. many, and marriage.] A plurality of wives or husbands at the same time; or the having of such plurality. When a man has more wives than one, or a woman more husbands than one, at the same time, the offender is punishable for polygamy. Such is the fact in christian countries. But polygamy is allowed in some countries, as in Turkey. NWAD POLYGAMY.1

POLYGAR, n. In Hindoostan, an inhabitant of the woods. NWAD POLYGAR.1

POLYGENOUS, a. [Gr. many, and kind.] Consisting of many kinds; as a polygenous mountain, which is composed of strata of different species of stone. NWAD POLYGENOUS.1

POLYGLOT, a. [Gr. many, and tongue.] Having or containing many languages; as a polyglot lexicon or Bible. NWAD POLYGLOT.1

POLYGLOT, n. A book containing many languages, particularly the Bible containing the Scriptures in several languages. NWAD POLYGLOT.2

1. One who understands many languages. [Not in use.] NWAD POLYGLOT.3

POLYGON, n. [Gr. many, and an angle.] In geometry, a figure of many angles and sides, and whose perimeter consists at least of more than four sides. NWAD POLYGON.1

POLYGONAL, POLYGONOUS, a. Having many angles. NWAD POLYGONAL.1

POLYGONUM, POLYGON, n. [Gr. many, and knee or knot.] Knotgrass, a genus of plants so names from the numerous joints in the stem. NWAD POLYGONUM.1

POLYGRAM, n. [Gr. many, and a writing.] NWAD POLYGRAM.1

A figure consisting of many lines. NWAD POLYGRAM.2

POLYGRAPH, n. [See Polygraphy.] An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing with ease and expedition. NWAD POLYGRAPH.1

POLYGRAPHIC, POLYGRAPHICAL, a. Pertaining to polygraphy; as a polygraphic instrument. NWAD POLYGRAPHIC.1

1. Done with a polygraph; as a polygraphic copy or writing. NWAD POLYGRAPHIC.2

POLYGRAPHY, n. [Gr. many, and a writing; to write.] NWAD POLYGRAPHY.1

The art of writing in various ciphers, and of deciphering the same. NWAD POLYGRAPHY.2

POLYGYN, n. [Gr. many, and a female.] NWAD POLYGYN.1

In botany, a plant having many pistils. NWAD POLYGYN.2

POLYGYNIAN, a. Having many pistils. NWAD POLYGYNIAN.1

POLYGYNY, n. [Gr. many, and a female.] NWAD POLYGYNY.1

The practice of having more wives than one at the same time. NWAD POLYGYNY.2

POLYHALITE, n. [Gr. many, and salt.] A mineral or salt occurring in masses of a fibrous structure, of a brick red color, being tinged with iron. It contains sulphates of lime, of magnesia, of potash and of soda. NWAD POLYHALITE.1

POLYHEDRAL, POLYHEDROUS, a. [See Polyhedron.] Having many sides; as a solid body. NWAD POLYHEDRAL.1

POLYHEDRON, n. [Gr. many, and side.] NWAD POLYHEDRON.1

1. In geometry, a body or solid contained under many sides or planes. NWAD POLYHEDRON.2

2. In optics, a multiplying glass or lens consisting of several plane surfaces disposed in a convex form. NWAD POLYHEDRON.3

POLYLOGY, n. [Gr. many, and discourse.] NWAD POLYLOGY.1

A talking much; talkativeness; garrulity. [Not in use.] NWAD POLYLOGY.2

POLYMATHIC, a. [See Polymathy.] Pertaining to polymathy. NWAD POLYMATHIC.1

POLYMATHY, n. [Gr. many, and learning; to learn.] The knowledge of many arts and sciences; acquaintance with many branches of learning or with various subjects. NWAD POLYMATHY.1

POLYMNITE, n. [stone of many marshes.] A stone marked with dendrites and black lines, and so disposed as to represent rivers, marshes and ponds. NWAD POLYMNITE.1

POLYMORPH, n. [Gr. many and form.] A name given by Soldani to a numerous tribe or series of shells, which are very small, irregular and singular in form, and which cannot be referred to any known genus. NWAD POLYMORPH.1

POLYMORPHOUS, a. [supra.] Having many forms. NWAD POLYMORPHOUS.1

POLYNEME, n. A fish having a scaly compressed head, with a blunt prominent nose, and pliform appendages to the pectoral fins. NWAD POLYNEME.1

POLYNESIA, n. s as z. [Gr. many and isle.] A new term in geography, used to designate a great number of isles in the Pacific ocean, as the Pelew isles, the Ladrones, the Carolinas, the Sandwich isles, the Marquesas, the Society isles and the Friendly isles. NWAD POLYNESIA.1

POLYNESIAN, a. Pertaining to Polynesia. NWAD POLYNESIAN.1

POLYNOME, n. [Gr. many and name.] In algebra, a quantity consisting of many terms. NWAD POLYNOME.1

POLYNOMIAL, a. Containing many names or terms. NWAD POLYNOMIAL.1

POLYONOMOUS, a. [Gr. many and name.] NWAD POLYONOMOUS.1

Having many names or titles; many-titled. NWAD POLYONOMOUS.2

POLYONOMY, n. [supra.] Variety of different names. NWAD POLYONOMY.1

POLYOPTRUM, n. [Gr. many and to see.] A glass through which objects appear multiplied. NWAD POLYOPTRUM.1

POLYPE, POLYPUS, n. [Gr. many and foot.] NWAD POLYPE.1

1. Something that has many feet or roots. NWAD POLYPE.2

2. In zoology, a species of fresh water insect, belonging to the genus Hydra and order of zoophytes. Of this animal it is remarkable, that if cut into pieces, each part will shoot out a new head and tail and become a distinct animal. The general character of this animal is, it fixes itself by its base, is gelatinous, linear, naked, contractile, and capable of changing place. NWAD POLYPE.3

The common name of all those small gelatinous animals, whose mouth is surrounded by tentacula or feelers, (whence the name,) and conducts to a simple stomach, or one followed by intestines in the form of vessels. They constitute a distinct class or order of zoophytes, and include those compound animals, with a fixed and solid stem, which were formerly regarded as marine plants. NWAD POLYPE.4

3. A concretion of blood in the heart and blood vessels. NWAD POLYPE.5

4. A tumor with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a pear; found in the nose, uterus, etc. NWAD POLYPE.6

POLYPETALOUS, a. [Gr. many and a petal.] In botany, having many petals; as a polypetalous corol. NWAD POLYPETALOUS.1

POLYPHONIC, a. [infra.] Having or consisting of many voices or sounds. NWAD POLYPHONIC.1

POLYPHONISM, POLYPHONY, n. [Gr. many and sound.] Multiplicity of sounds, as in the reverberations of an echo. NWAD POLYPHONISM.1

POLYPHYLLOUS, a. [Gr. many and leaf.] In botany, many-leafed; as a polyphyllous calyx or perianth. NWAD POLYPHYLLOUS.1

POLYPIER, n. The name given to the habitations of polypes, or to the common part of those compound animals called polypes. NWAD POLYPIER.1

POLYPITE, n. Fossil polype. NWAD POLYPITE.1

POLYPODE, n. [Gr.] An animal having many feet; the milleped or wood-louse. NWAD POLYPODE.1

POLYPODY, n. [L. polypodium, from the Greek. See Polype.] NWAD POLYPODY.1

A plant of the genus Polypodium, of the order of Filices or ferns. The fructifications are in roundish points, scattered over the inferior disk of the frons or leaf. There are numerous species, of which the most remarkable is the common male fern. NWAD POLYPODY.2

POLYPOUS, a. [from polypus.] Having the nature of the polypus; having many feet or roots, like the polypus; as a polypous concretion. NWAD POLYPOUS.1

POLYSCOPE, n. [Gr. many and to view.] A glass which makes a single object appear as many. NWAD POLYSCOPE.1

POLYSPAST, n. [Gr. many and to draw.] A machine consisting of many pulleys. NWAD POLYSPAST.1

POLYSPERM, n. [Gr. many and seed.] A tree whose fruit contains many seeds. NWAD POLYSPERM.1

POLYSPERMOUS, a. Containing many seeds; as a polyspermous capsule or berry. NWAD POLYSPERMOUS.1

POLYSYLLABIC, POLYSYLLABICAL, a. [from polysyllable.] Pertaining to a polysyllable; consisting of many syllables, or of more than three. NWAD POLYSYLLABIC.1

POLYSYLLABLE, n. [Gr. many and a syllable.] A word of many syllables, that is, consisting of more syllables than three, for words of a less number than four are called monosyllables, dissyllables and trisyllables. NWAD POLYSYLLABLE.1

POLYSYNDETON, n. [Gr. many and connecting.] A figure of rhetoric by which the copulative is often repeated; as, “we have ships and men and money and stores.” NWAD POLYSYNDETON.1

POLYTECHNIC, a. [Gr. many and art.] Denoting or comprehending many arts; as a polytechnic school. NWAD POLYTECHNIC.1

POLYTHEISM, n. [Gr. many and God.] The doctrine of a plurality of gods or invisible beings superior to man, and having an agency in the government of the world. NWAD POLYTHEISM.1

POLYTHEIST, n. A person who believes in or maintains the doctrine of a plurality of gods. NWAD POLYTHEIST.1

POLYTHEISTIC, POLYTHEISTICAL, a. Pertaining to polytheism; as polytheistic belief or worship. NWAD POLYTHEISTIC.1

1. Holding a plurality of gods; as a polytheistic writer. NWAD POLYTHEISTIC.2

POMACE, n. [from L. pomum, an apple.] The substance of apples or of similar fruit crushed by grinding. In America, it is so called before and after being pressed. [See Pomp and Pommel.] NWAD POMACE.1

POMACEOUS, a. Consisting of apples; as pomaceous harvests. NWAD POMACEOUS.1

1. Like pomace. NWAD POMACEOUS.2

POMADE, n. Perfumed ointment. [Little used.] NWAD POMADE.1

POMANDER, n. A sweet ball; a perfumed ball or powder. NWAD POMANDER.1

POMATUM, n. An unguent or composition used in dressing the hair. It is also used in medicine. NWAD POMATUM.1

POMATUM, v.t. To apply pomatum to the hair. NWAD POMATUM.2

POME, n. [L. pomum.] In botany, a pulpy pericarp without valves, containing a capsule or core, as the apple, pear, etc. NWAD POME.1

POME, v.i. To grow to a head, or form a head in growing. [Not used.] NWAD POME.2

POMECITRON, n. A citron apple. NWAD POMECITRON.1

POMEGRANATE, n. [L. pomum, an apple, and granatum, grained. See Grain and Granate.] NWAD POMEGRANATE.1

1. The fruit of a tree belonging to the genus Punica. This fruit is as large as an orange, having a hard rind filled with a soft pulp and numerous seeds. It is of a reddish color. NWAD POMEGRANATE.2

2. The tree that produces pomegranates. NWAD POMEGRANATE.3

3. An ornament resembling a pomegranate, on the robe and ephod of the Jewish high priest. NWAD POMEGRANATE.4

POMEGRANATE-TREE, n. The tree which produces pomegranates. NWAD POMEGRANATE-TREE.1

POMEROY, POMEROYAL, n. Royal apple; a particular sort of apple. NWAD POMEROY.1

POME-WATER, n. A sort of apple. NWAD POME-WATER.1

POMIFEROUS, a. [L. pomum, an apple, and fero, to produce.] NWAD POMIFEROUS.1

Apple-bearing; an epithet applied to plants which bear the larger fruits, such as melons, gourds, pumpkins, cucumbers, etc. in distinction from the bacciferous or berry-bearing plants. NWAD POMIFEROUS.2

POMME, POMMETTE, n. In heraldry, a cross with one or more knobs at each of the ends. NWAD POMME.1

POMMEL, n. [L. pomum, an apple, or a similar fruit.] NWAD POMMEL.1

1. A knob or ball. 2 Chronicles 4:12-13. NWAD POMMEL.2

2. The knob on the hilt of a sword; the protuberant part of a saddle-bow; the round knob on the frame of a chair, etc. NWAD POMMEL.3

POMMEL, v.t. [from the noun.] To beat as with a pommel, that is, with something thick or bulky; to bruise. NWAD POMMEL.4

[The French se pommeler, to grow dapple, to curdle, is from the same source; but the sense is to make knobs or lumps, and hence to variegate, or make spots like knobs. The Welsh have from the same root, or pwmp, a mass, pwmpiaw, to form a round mass, and to thump, to bang, Eng. to bump.] NWAD POMMEL.5

POMMELED, pp. Beaten; bruised. NWAD POMMELED.1

1. In heraldry, having pommels; as a sword or dagger. NWAD POMMELED.2

POMMELION, n. [from pommel.] The cascabel or hindmost knob of a cannon. NWAD POMMELION.1

POMP, n. [L. pompa; bombus; Eng. bomb, bombast.] NWAD POMP.1

1. A procession distinguished by ostentation of grandeur and splendor; as the pomp of a Roman triumph. NWAD POMP.2

2. Show of magnificence; parade; splendor. NWAD POMP.3

Hearts formed for love, but doom’d in vain to glow NWAD POMP.4

In prison’d pomp, and weep in splendid woe. NWAD POMP.5

POMPATIC, a. [Low L. pompaticus, pompatus.] NWAD POMPATIC.1

Pompous; splendid; ostentatious. [Not in use.] NWAD POMPATIC.2

POMPET, n. The ball which printers use to black the types. NWAD POMPET.1

POMPHOLYX, n. [L. from Gr. a tumor; a blast, a puff, a bubble, a pustule. See Pomp.] The white oxyd which sublimes during the combustion of zink; called flowers of zink. It rises and adheres to the dome of the furnace and the covers of crucibles. NWAD POMPHOLYX.1

POMPION, n. [See Pomp and Pomace.] A pumpkin; a plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita. NWAD POMPION.1

POMPIRE, n. [L. pomum, apple, and pyrus, pear.] NWAD POMPIRE.1

A sort of pearmain. NWAD POMPIRE.2

POMPOSITY, n. Pompousness; ostentation; boasting. NWAD POMPOSITY.1

POMPOUS, a. NWAD POMPOUS.1

1. Displaying pomp; showy with grandeur; splendid; magnificent; as a pompous procession; a pompous triumph. NWAD POMPOUS.2

2. Ostentatious; boastful; as a pompous account of private adventures. NWAD POMPOUS.3

POMPOUSLY, adv. With great parade or display; magnificently; splendidly; ostentatiously. NWAD POMPOUSLY.1