POLLY
First name POLLY's origin is Hebrew. POLLY means "bitter". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with POLLY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of polly.(Brown names are of the same origin (Hebrew) with POLLY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming POLLY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES POLLY AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH POLLY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (olly) - Names That Ends with olly:
dolly molly connolly hollyRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (lly) - Names That Ends with lly:
skelly elly jilly kally lilly nelly sally shelly tilly billy donnally donnelly kelly kennelly nally rally reilly scully tally tully wally willy cully sully callyRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ly) - Names That Ends with ly:
moly kim-ly bily wetherly aisly aracely beverly bly carly chaisly charly cicely cicily cymberly daly eily emily gormly joely karly keely lily marily nathaly neely ashly blakely bradly brocly bromly burly caly cranly crosly dunly ely farly farnly greely hagly hanly hawly hrapenly huntly huxly karoly kealy kenly kirkly laidly lawly lindly linly manly marly mihaly morly priestly stanly thornly townly waverly weatherly yardly zachely gedaly hurly sheply seely ridgely everlyNAMES RHYMING WITH POLLY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (poll) - Names That Begins with poll:
poll pollock polluxRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pol) - Names That Begins with pol:
pol polak poldi polikwaptiwa polites poloma polycarp polydamas polydeuces polydorus polyeidus polyhymnia polymestor polynices polyphemus polyxenaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (po) - Names That Begins with po:
podarge pomeroy pommelraie pommeraie ponce poni pontus poppy porfirio porfiro porrex porsche porter porteur portia portier posala poseidon poston poul powaqa powell powwawNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH POLLY:
First Names which starts with 'po' and ends with 'ly':
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'y':
paddy pamuy pansy patty pay peggy penley penny peony percy perry pfesssley pitney pranay presley pressley ptolemyEnglish Words Rhyming POLLY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES POLLY AS A WHOLE:
apollyon | noun (n.) The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon. |
polly | noun (n.) A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot. |
pollywog | noun (n.) A polliwig. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH POLLY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (olly) - English Words That Ends with olly:
blolly | noun (n.) A shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies (Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit. |
noun (n.) The rubiaceous shrub Chicocca racemosa, of the same region. |
colly | noun (n.) The black grime or soot of coal. |
noun (n.) A kind of dog. See Collie. | |
verb (v. t.) To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. |
coolly | adjective (a.) Coolish; cool. |
adverb (adv.) In a cool manner; without heat or excessive cold; without passion or ardor; calmly; deliberately; with indifference; impudently. |
dolly | noun (n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer. |
noun (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. | |
noun (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver. | |
noun (n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building. | |
noun (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc. | |
noun (n.) A child's mane for a doll. |
folly | noun (n.) The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind. |
noun (n.) A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery. | |
noun (n.) Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness. | |
noun (n.) The result of a foolish action or enterprise. |
holly | noun (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas. |
noun (n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm. | |
adverb (adv.) Wholly. |
jolly | adjective (a.) A marine in the English navy. |
superlative (superl.) Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. | |
superlative (superl.) Expressing mirth, or inspiring it; exciting mirth and gayety. | |
superlative (superl.) Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to be jolly; to make good-natured; to encourage to feel pleasant or cheerful; -- often implying an insincere or bantering spirit; hence, to poke fun at. |
loblolly | noun (n.) Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen. |
molly | noun (n.) Same as Mollemoke. |
noun (n.) A pet or colloquial name for Mary. |
trolly | noun (n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. |
noun (n.) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. | |
noun (n.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. | |
noun (n.) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. |
wittolly | adjective (a.) Like a wittol; cuckoldly. |
woolly | adjective (a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece. |
adjective (a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. | |
adjective (a.) Clothed with wool. | |
adjective (a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lly) - English Words That Ends with lly:
ally | noun (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw. |
verb (v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. | |
verb (v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. | |
verb (v.) A relative; a kinsman. | |
verb (v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. | |
verb (v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary. | |
verb (v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc. |
belly | noun (n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen. |
noun (n.) The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. | |
noun (n.) The womb. | |
noun (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. | |
noun (n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill. | |
verb (v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. |
billy | noun (n.) A club; esp., a policeman's club. |
noun (n.) A slubbing or roving machine. |
bully | noun (n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. |
noun (n.) A brisk, dashing fellow. | |
adjective (a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing. | |
adjective (a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse. | |
verb (v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. | |
verb (v. i.) To act as a bully. | |
verb (v.) Alt. of Bully beef |
capercally | noun (n.) A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. |
causally | noun (n.) The lighter, earthy parts of ore, carried off washing. |
adverb (adv.) According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes. |
cavally | noun (n.) A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.] |
chilly | adjective (a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. |
conjecturally | noun (n.) That which depends upon guess; guesswork. |
adverb (adv.) In a conjectural manner; by way of conjecture. |
cully | noun (n.) A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull. |
noun (n.) To trick, cheat, or impose on; to deceive. |
dilly | noun (n.) A kind of stagecoach. |
dulwilly | noun (n.) The ring plover. |
felly | noun (n.) The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. |
adverb (adv.) In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. |
filly | noun (n.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal. |
noun (n.) A lively, spirited young girl. |
gally | noun (n.) See Galley, n., 4. |
adjective (a.) Like gall; bitter as gall. | |
verb (v. t.) To frighten; to worry. |
gelly | noun (n.) Jelly. |
gentilly | adjective (a.) In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. |
gillie gilly | noun (n.) A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. |
gravelly | adjective (a.) Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil. |
gruelly | adjective (a.) Like gruel; of the consistence of gruel. |
gully | noun (n.) A large knife. |
noun (n.) A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry. | |
noun (n.) A grooved iron rail or tram plate. | |
verb (v. t.) To wear into a gully or into gullies. | |
verb (v. i.) To flow noisily. |
hazelly | adjective (a.) Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. |
helly | adjective (a.) Hellish. |
hilly | adjective (a.) Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. |
adjective (a.) Lofty; as, hilly empire. |
hully | adjective (a.) Having or containing hulls. |
impartially | adjective (a.) In an impartial manner. |
imperially | noun (n.) Imperial power. |
adverb (adv.) In an imperial manner. |
jelly | noun (n.) Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like. |
noun (n.) The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly. | |
verb (v. i.) To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly. |
kernelly | adjective (a.) Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels. |
quirboilly | noun (n.) Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. |
noun (n.) Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. |
piccadilly | noun (n.) A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century. |
rakehelly | adjective (a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. |
rally | noun (n.) The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word). |
noun (n.) A political mass meeting. | |
noun (n.) Good-humored raillery. | |
verb (v. t.) To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite. | |
verb (v. i.) To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. | |
verb (v. i.) To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate. | |
verb (v. i.) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire. | |
verb (v. i.) To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment. |
rascally | adjective (a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. |
redbelly | noun (n.) The char. |
rosselly | adjective (a.) Loose; light. |
sawbelly | noun (n.) The alewife. |
schelly | noun (n.) The powan. |
shelly | adjective (a.) Abounding with shells; consisting of shells, or of a shell. |
shrilly | adjective (a.) Somewhat shrill. |
adverb (adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice. |
silly | noun (n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed. |
noun (n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive. | |
noun (n.) Weak; helpless; frail. | |
noun (n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble. | |
noun (n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman. | |
noun (n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question. |
skelly | noun (n.) A squint. |
verb (v. i.) To squint. |
spritefully | adjective (a.) Alt. of Spritely |
squally | adjective (a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather. |
adjective (a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain. | |
adjective (a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth. |
stilly | adjective (a.) Still; quiet; calm. |
adverb (adv.) In a still manner; quietly; silently; softly. |
sully | noun (n.) Soil; tarnish; stain. |
verb (v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation. | |
verb (v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished. |
swagbelly | noun (n.) A prominent, overhanging belly. |
noun (n.) Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. |
tally | noun (n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept. |
noun (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate. | |
noun (n.) One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate. | |
noun (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game. | |
noun (n.) A tally shop. See Tally shop, below. | |
noun (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit. | |
noun (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. | |
adjective (a.) Stoutly; with spirit. | |
verb (v. i.) To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match. | |
verb (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game. |
tinselly | adjective (a.) Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap. |
adverb (adv.) In a showy and cheap manner. |
towilly | noun (n.) The sanderling; -- so called from its cry. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH POLLY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (poll) - Words That Begins with poll:
poll | noun (n.) A parrot; -- familiarly so called. |
noun (n.) One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. | |
noun (n.) The head; the back part of the head. | |
noun (n.) A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. | |
noun (n.) Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. | |
noun (n.) The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. | |
noun (n.) The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. | |
noun (n.) The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. | |
noun (n.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a). | |
verb (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. | |
verb (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. | |
verb (v. t.) To extort from; to plunder; to strip. | |
verb (v. t.) To impose a tax upon. | |
verb (v. t.) To pay as one's personal tax. | |
verb (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. | |
verb (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. | |
verb (v. t.) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll. | |
verb (v. i.) To vote at an election. |
polling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poll |
noun (n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges. | |
noun (n.) Plunder, or extortion. | |
noun (n.) The act of voting, or of registering a vote. |
pollack | noun (n.) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack. |
noun (n.) The American pollock; the coalfish. |
pollage | noun (n.) A head or poll tax; hence, extortion. |
pollan | noun (n.) A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring. |
pollard | noun (n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. |
noun (n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. | |
noun (n.) A fish, the chub. | |
noun (n.) A stag that has cast its antlers. | |
noun (n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep). | |
verb (v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows. |
pollarding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pollard |
pollax | noun (n.) A poleax. |
polled | adjective (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. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Poll |
pollen | noun (n.) Fine bran or flour. |
noun (n.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. |
pollenarious | adjective (a.) Consisting of meal or pollen. |
pollened | adjective (a.) Covered with pollen. |
polleniferous | adjective (a.) Producing pollen; polliniferous. |
pollenin | noun (n.) A substance found in the pollen of certain plants. |
pollenizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pollenize |
poller | noun (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. |
pollex | noun (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 | adjective (a.) Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; -- said of insects. |
pollicitation | noun (n.) A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise. |
noun (n.) A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made. |
pollinate | adjective (a.) Pollinose. |
verb (v. t.) To apply pollen to (a stigma). |
pollinctor | noun (n.) One who prepared corpses for the funeral. |
polliniferous | adjective (a.) Producing pollen; polleniferous. |
pollinium | noun (n.) A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids. |
pollinose | adjective (a.) Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen. |
polliwig | noun (n.) Alt. of Polliwog |
polliwog | noun (n.) A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle. |
pollock | noun (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. |
pollucite | noun (n.) A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and caesia. Called also pollux. |
polluting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pollute |
adjective (a.) Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution. |
pollute | adjective (a.) Polluted. |
verb (v. t.) To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement. | |
verb (v. t.) To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor. | |
verb (v. t.) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. |
polluted | adjective (a.) Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Pollute |
polluter | noun (n.) One who pollutes. |
pollution | noun (n.) The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity. |
noun (n.) The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse. |
pollux | noun (n.) A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini. Cf. 3d Castor. |
noun (n.) Same as Pollucite. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pol) - Words That Begins with pol:
polacca | noun (n.) A vessel with two or three masts, used in the Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, and without tops, caps, or crosstrees. |
noun (n.) See Polonaise. |
polack | noun (n.) A Polander. |
polacre | noun (n.) Same as Polacca, 1. |
polander | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole. |
polar | noun (n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed. | |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates. |
polarchy | noun (n.) See Polyarchy. |
polaric | adjective (a.) See Polar. |
polarimeter | noun (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray. |
polarimetry | noun (n.) The art or process of measuring the polarization of light. |
polaris | noun (n.) The polestar. See North star, under North. |
polariscope | noun (n.) An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties. |
polariscopic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. |
polariscopy | noun (n.) The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope. |
polaristic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism. |
polarity | noun (n.) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc. |
noun (n.) A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n. |
polarizable | adjective (a.) Susceptible of polarization. |
polarization | noun (n.) The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity. |
noun (n.) A peculiar affection or condition of the rays of light or heat, in consequence of which they exhibit different properties in different directions. | |
noun (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell. |
polarizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Polarize |
polarizer | noun (n.) That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal. |
polary | adjective (a.) Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole. |
polatouche | noun (n.) A flying squirrel (Sciuropterus volans) native of Northern Europe and Siberia; -- called also minene. |
polder | noun (n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. |
poldway | noun (n.) A kind of coarse bagging, -- used for coal sacks. |
pole | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander. |
noun (n.) A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained. | |
noun (n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch. | |
noun (n.) Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole. | |
noun (n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian. | |
noun (n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle. | |
noun (n.) The firmament; the sky. | |
noun (n.) See Polarity, and Polar, n. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops. | |
verb (v. t.) To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn. | |
verb (v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat. | |
verb (v. t.) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole. |
poling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pole |
noun (n.) The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat. | |
noun (n.) The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles. | |
noun (n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc. |
poleax | noun (n.) Alt. of Poleaxe |
poleaxe | noun (n.) Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel. |
polecat | noun (n.) A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret. |
noun (n.) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species. |
poledavy | noun (n.) A sort of coarse canvas; poldway. |
poleless | adjective (a.) Without a pole; as, a poleless chariot. |
polemarch | noun (n.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer. |
polemic | noun (n.) One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant. |
noun (n.) A polemic argument or controversy. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology. | |
adjective (a.) Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer. |
polemical | adjective (a.) Polemic; controversial; disputatious. |
polemicist | noun (n.) A polemic. |
polemics | noun (n.) The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy. |
polemist | noun (n.) A polemic. |
polemoniaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polemoniaceae), which includes Polemonium, Phlox, Gilia, and a few other genera. |
polemonium | noun (n.) A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian. |
polemoscope | noun (n.) An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, / side, opera glass. |
polemy | noun (n.) Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition. |
polenta | noun (n.) Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal. |
poler | noun (n.) One who poles. |
noun (n.) An extortioner. See Poller. |
polestar | noun (n.) Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. |
noun (n.) A guide or director. |
polewig | noun (n.) The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also pollybait. |
poley | noun (n.) See Poly. |
adjective (a.) Without horns; polled. |
polianite | noun (n.) Manganese dioxide, occurring in tetragonal crystals nearly as hard as quartz. |
policate | adjective (a.) Same as Pollicate. |
police | noun (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough. |
noun (n.) That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state. | |
noun (n.) The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws. | |
noun (n.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison. | |
noun (n.) The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness. | |
verb (v. t.) To keep in order by police. | |
verb (v. t.) To make clean; as, to police a camp. |
policing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Police |
policed | adjective (a.) Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Police |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH POLLY:
English Words which starts with 'po' and ends with 'ly':
poly | noun (n.) A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus. |
pomely | adjective (a.) Dappled. |
poorly | adjective (a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health. |
adverb (adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly. | |
adverb (adv.) With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business. | |
adverb (adv.) Meanly; without spirit. | |
adverb (adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly. |
portly | adjective (a.) Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing. |
adjective (a.) Bulky; corpulent. |