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Show May thy woods oft poll'd, yet ever wea deep contrivance; for give any one fottune, an South he thail be thought a wife man [770?\{.;,‘15". (?(1_7 POILTRICK almof i phrafe body politick hi wit wifely acknowledging an Virtuoufl vhereof himfelf wa them as he would fo No civil or politic celebrated than his b al mad p on bu that h f the head; even fo cared to Sidney his own limbs conftitutions have been mor Temple the beft authors 3. Artful; cunning ¢ical-is not ufed I coignie, livery, and forehon, by which they po// an Spenfer on Ireland utterly undo the poor tenants He told the people, that fubfidies were not t [from politick. Art fubdued you Pope Po'viticks. =. f. [politique, French monmixs. | T he {cience of government the art or practice of adminiftring publick affairs Be pleas'd your politicks to fpare fhoul fuc men overturn an eftablithment forme b Of crooked counfels and dark politicks the ablef Addifsn Pope Po'L1TURE. #n. /. [ politure, French.] Th glofs given by the ac of polifhing RO 71_ [7.*0}.575254. government; civil conftitution for Look if the withere clawed like a parrot 2. catalogu gifter of heads the top. a re The man that pol/'d but twelve pence for his head Dyyden 8. To infert into a number as a voter In folemn conclave fit generall Shakefpeare a chab 7o PoLr. @. a. [from the noun. 1. To lop the top of trees The oft eutting and polfing of hedges conduce Bacon's Natural Hiftiry sugh to their Jaling devoid of thought And pol/ for points of faith his trufty vote Zickel Po'LLarp. #. /i [from poll. 1. A tree lopped Nothing procureth the lafting of trees fo muc as often cutting ; and we fee all overgrown trees ar pollards or dottards, and not trees at their ful height Bacon 2, A clipped coin The fame king called in certain counterfei pieces coined by the French, called po/lards, crocar and rofaries Camden 3. The chub fifh Ainfavorth Po'LrLeEn., z. / A fine powder;: ‘commonly underftood by the word farina as alfo a fort of fine bran Bailey Po'LLenceEr #. /. Brufhwood Thi feems to be the meaning of this obfolet word Lop for the fewel old gollenger grown That hinder the corne or the grafic to be mown Po'rrer. a. /. [from goll. 1. Robber; pillager; plunderer Tuffer The poller and exatter of fees juftifies the refemblance of the courts of juftice to the buth whereunto while the fheep flies for defence, h lofes part of the flecce Bacon's EfJays 2 He who votes or polls Po'LLEVIL 2./. [fo/l and ewil. Pollewil is a large {welling, inflammation or impofthumein the horfe's poll ornape of the neck, juf between the cars towards the mane. Farrier's Dic? Po'vrock . / of fifh Of all the voices that we have procur'd Set down by th' poll Sbakefpeare's Coriolanus The mufter file, rotten and found, amounts no 3. A fith calle chevin fo Who ever brought to his rich daughter's bed Have you a catalogu to fifteen thoufand po/l Scotland 7. To enter one's name in a lift or regifter elder hath not his pol Shakefpeare's Henry 1V or lift of perfons i 6. To take a lift or regifter of perfons o Becanfe the fubject, which this pofition concerneth, is a form of church government or churc #olity, it behoveth us to confider the nature of th church, as is requifite for men's more clear an plain underftanding, in what refpet laws of pofit or government are neceflary thereunto Hooker 'T'he polity of fome of our neighbours hath no thought it beneath the publick care, to promot and reward the improvement of their own lsnguage Locke on Education POLL. . /. [ polle, pol, Dutch 1. The head war fo levie nefs, amongft the briars and brambles of catchin Bacon and polling clerks and minifters be an everlafting reproach to politicks and fupporte no that the law had provided another courfe by fervic of efcuage, much lefs when war was made but a preBacon tence to po// and pill the people and can myfelf take care. Dryden by the wifeft laws heads grante Neither can juftice yield her fruit with fweet To fend me packing with an hoft of men. Shake/p The dutchefs hath been moft politickly employed in fharpening thofe arms with which th It woul to firip; to pill They will po// and {poil fo outrageoufly, as th very enemy cannot do much worfe. Spenfer on Irel Take and exa¢t upon them the wild exations wife that themfelves are wife, but others weak Pope old enough ; Shake|peare leave his paflage poll'd b [acellus niger. A kin The coatt is plentifully ftored with fhellfith, feahedgehogs, feallops; pilcherd, herring and jc/.ck 7 POLLUTE w Carewv a [polluo Latin polluer, French. 1. To make unclean,ina religious fenfe to defile Hot and peevith vow Are polluted offerings, more abhor' Than fpotted livers in the facrifice 2. 'To taint with guilt 3 Lo corrupt by mixtures of jj| moral or phyfical you m Shakefpeare. o h ilke praife With grin my};)llcafurc':s, ::dw;);/l/l:;jfrq 4. Milton ufes this word in an z;o p'fl conftre&ion He'll go and fowle the porter of Rome gates b th' ears: he will mow down all before him, an 5. To plunder faow T'}i: faintly veil of maudc'n w ite t0 thyoy, M Env 4. To mow; to crop this fenfe po/i Thus have I politickly begun my reign And 'tis my hope to end fuccefsfully. Shake/peare >T'is politickly done T t Neither thall they fhave, only po// their heads Ezckiel All fly flow things, with circumfipeétive eyes Men in their loofe unguarded hours they take Po'viTickry. adv fully; cunningly the head clip thort; to fhear I have been politick with my friend, fmooth wit mine enemy Shakefpeare Authority followeth old men, and favour youth but for the moral part, perhaps youth will hav the preheminence, as age hath for the golitick. Bac No fro 3. To cut off hai hide her guilty fron with And on hg nal):ed fl?;n‘:gdj Po/[tflc with.fmfui blame, ar ~ Mortimer the leaft danger the polled lamb wit ¥ have trod a meafure 5 T have flattered a lady No lefs alike the politick an without horns the beft breeders, becaufe the ewes yea reckone Prudent; verfed in affairs This land was famoufly enrich' With politick grave counfel; then the kin Had virtuous uncles Shakefpeare's Richard II1 is fhee Polled- fheep, tha body pofitic 2. In this fenfe is ufed polled fheep th i ufed, excep alway i Sggdwioes the gentle air A green, and, when fhe lift, a golden hair. Donne In this {enfe politica Political; civil PO PO Polluted from the end of his creation PoLLv'repnEess Defilement # th ftat M'my, [ from jml/m.] i of being pol luted Porru'rer. 2 /. [from pollute. Defler corrupter Ev'n he Fell at his threthold the ki a:xd the fpogiloeffu'fi)' The fo,ul polluters of his bed enjoy Porvu'rion. #. / pollutio, Latin. Dryds Ay [ pollution, Brenc 1. The aét of defiling The contrary to confecration is pollution, which Ui " happensin charches by homicide, and burying a excommunicated perfon in the church Aylife 2. The ftate of being defiled; defilemens Their ftrife pollution bring Upon the temple Milim Po'Lrron. n. fi [pollice truncato, fro the thumb -cut off; it being once praftice of cowards to cut off thei thumbs, that they might not be com pelled to ferve in war Saumaif Menage derives it from the Italian gol- " tro, a bed ; as cowards feign themfelves *I® fick a-bed : others derive it from golsr or poltro, a young unbroken horfe.] coward ; a nidgit; a fcoundrel Shakefpear Patience is for 'poltrcns They that are bruis'd with wood or fifts And think one beating may for onc Suffice are cowards and po/irons Hudibras For who but-a poltren pofiefs'd with fear Such haughty infolence can tamely bear? Dryden An hetb Hinfworth, A prefix often foundi [polium, Latin. Po'vy n. / Po'Ly [wd: of words denvec! fro the compofitio and intimating multitude the Greek le an n m o as, polygon, a figur . fee ma wi ma an a polypus PoLyacou'sTick. adjs [monvs and aps ie oi ma o ie up mu th n th An Did #. fo [morvg and 93 {founds PoLya'NTHOS imofe & i };Iam'al violetdarkly blue rimrofe, violet da An(li 16?;.1:!%:: %f unnu;nbcfd dyes Tbflfl'f u m o [f ad A PoLyr DRI Ha Fr re ye po U R ' E PoL ing man fides fl_l‘ l ric fph b ma icl par The [)\‘Otl)llbcrml : t[{, :::e ( fon an m/ dr )v Fo tical, cylindrical par ig l: m? th t gular; and ‘accordi the fitnation of the lucid body Bogle. variou(ly affected o er ex th ha r fp o b pa o A tuzcrcl furface covered wit fmall po{yafloasvcrflxf;u & d lucid, with a caft of yellow P oLy GamisT . j. [from j{o,lyg"'"f; POLY'GAI\/IY n'./'.l'[})agy;ga";;ee,sl‘fencb r m o l n u w J t One that hold m t a o wives tha E O Y A A O P wonvy : 2 a t v W r m n v h t i:s OP;'(;I c a |