Polite (v.) Smooth; polished.
Polite (v.) Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil.
Polite (v.) Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish; as, polite literature.
Polite (v. t.) To polish; to refine; to render polite.
Politely (adv.) In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy.
Politely (adv.) In a polite manner; with politeness.
Politeness (n.) High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.
Politeness (n.) The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.
Politesse (n.) Politeness.
Politic (a.) Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under Body.
Politic (a.) Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty.
Politic (a.) Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.
Politic (n.) A politician.
Political (a.) Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.
Political (a.) Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer.
Political (a.) Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs.
Political (a.) Politic; wise; also, artful.
Politicalism (n.) Zeal or party spirit in politics.
Politically (adv.) In a political manner.
Politically (adv.) Politicly; artfully.
Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.
Politician (n.) One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman.
Politician (n.) One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician.
Politician (a.) Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.
Politicist (n.) A political writer.
Politicly (adv.) In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully.
Politics (n.) The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.
Politics (n.) The management of a political party; the conduct and contests of parties with reference to political measures or the administration of public affairs; the advancement of candidates to office; in a bad sense, artful or dishonest management to secure the success of political candidates or parties; political trickery.
Politize (v. i.) To play the politician; to dispute as politicians do.
Politure (v.) Polish; gloss. [Obs.] Donne.
Polities (pl. ) of Polity
Polity (n.) The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.
Polity (n.) Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.
Polity (n.) Policy; art; management.
Politzerization (n.) The act of inflating the middle ear by blowing air up the nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof. Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it.
Polive (n.) A pulley.
Polka (n.) A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time.
Polka (n.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented.
Poll (n.) A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
Poll (n.) One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
Poll (n.) The head; the back part of the head.
Poll (n.) A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
Poll (n.) Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
Poll (n.) The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
Poll (n.) The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
Poll (n.) The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
Poll (n.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
Polled (imp. & p. p.) of Poll
Polling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poll
Poll (v. t.) 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.
Poll (v. t.) 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.
Poll (v. t.) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
Poll (v. t.) To impose a tax upon.
Poll (v. t.) To pay as one's personal tax.
Poll (v. t.) To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
Poll (v. t.) 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.
Poll (v. t.) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.
Poll (v. i.) To vote at an election.
Pollack (n.) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.
Pollack (n.) The American pollock; the coalfish.
Pollage (n.) A head or poll tax; hence, extortion.
Pollan (n.) A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring.
Pollard (n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
Pollard (n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
Pollard (n.) A fish, the chub.
Pollard (n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
Pollard (n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
Pollarded (imp. & p. p.) of Pollard
Pollarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pollard
Pollard (v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.
Pollax (n.) A poleax.
Polled (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.
Pollen (n.) Fine bran or flour.
Pollen (n.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament.
Pollenarious (a.) Consisting of meal or pollen.
Pollened (a.) Covered with pollen.
Polleniferous (a.) Producing pollen; polliniferous.
Pollenin (n.) A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.
Pollenized (imp. & p. p.) of Pollenize
Pollenizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pollenize
Pollenize (v. t.) To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.
Poller (n.) 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.] Baex. (d) One who registplws votplws, or one who enters his name as a voter.
Pollices (pl. ) of Pollex
Pollex (n.) 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.
Pollicate (a.) Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; -- said of insects.
Pollicitation (n.) A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise.
Pollicitation (n.) A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made.
Pollinate (a.) Pollinose.
Pollinate (v. t.) To apply pollen to (a stigma).
Pollinctor (n.) One who prepared corpses for the funeral.
Polling (n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.
Polling (n.) Plunder, or extortion.
Polling (n.) The act of voting, or of registering a vote.
Polliniferous (a.) Producing pollen; polleniferous.
Pollinia (pl. ) of Pollinium
Pollinium (n.) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.
Pollinose (a.) Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.
Polliwig (n.) Alt. of Polliwog
Polliwog (n.) A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.
Pollock (n.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.