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. |
roll | noun (n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel. |
| noun (n.) To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball. |
| noun (n.) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel. |
| noun (n.) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean. |
| noun (n.) To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences. |
| noun (n.) To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc. |
| noun (n.) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels. |
| noun (n.) To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon. |
| noun (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal. |
| noun (n.) To turn over in one's mind; to revolve. |
| verb (v. i.) To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane. |
| verb (v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street. |
| verb (v. i.) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well. |
| verb (v. i.) To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice. |
| verb (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away. |
| verb (v. i.) To turn; to move circularly. |
| verb (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression. |
| verb (v. i.) To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about. |
| verb (v. i.) To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls. |
| verb (v. i.) To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well. |
| verb (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls. |
| verb (v.) The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves. |
| verb (v.) That which rolls; a roller. |
| verb (v.) A heavy cylinder used to break clods. |
| verb (v.) One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls. |
| verb (v.) That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc. |
| verb (v.) A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll. |
| verb (v.) Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list. |
| verb (v.) A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon. |
| verb (v.) A cylindrical twist of tobacco. |
| verb (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself. |
| verb (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching. |
| verb (v.) A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder. |
| verb (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear. |
| verb (v.) Part; office; duty; role. |
toll | noun (n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated. |
| noun (n.) A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like. |
| noun (n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor. |
| noun (n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. |
| verb (v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul. |
| verb (v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. |
| verb (v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. |
| verb (v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. |
| verb (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person. |
| verb (v. i.) To pay toll or tallage. |
| verb (v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax. |
| verb (v. t.) To collect, as a toll. |
troll | noun (n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. |
| noun (n.) The act of moving round; routine; repetition. |
| noun (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round. |
| noun (n.) A trolley. |
| verb (v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. |
| verb (v. t.) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. |
| verb (v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely. |
| verb (v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure. |
| verb (v. t.) To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. |
| verb (v. i.) To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six. |
| verb (v. i.) To move rapidly; to wag. |
| verb (v. i.) To take part in trolling a song. |
| verb (v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water. |
drift | noun (n.) A driving; a violent movement. |
| noun (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse. |
| noun (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. |
| noun (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim. |
| noun (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along |
| noun (n.) Anything driven at random. |
| noun (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. |
| noun (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. |
| noun (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. |
| noun (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice. |
| noun (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river. |
| noun (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach. |
| noun (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework. |
| noun (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles. |
| noun (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel. |
| noun (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time. |
| noun (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting. |
| noun (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. |
| noun (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. |
| noun (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle. |
| noun (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven. |
| noun (n.) One of the slower movements of oceanic circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wind; as, the easterly drift of the North Pacific. |
| noun (n.) The horizontal component of the pressure of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine. The lift is the corresponding vertical component, which sustains the machine in the air. |
| adjective (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud. |
| verb (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east. |
| verb (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts. |
| verb (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. |
| verb (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. |
| verb (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand. |
| verb (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift. |
drill | noun (n.) An instrument with an edged or pointed end used for making holes in hard substances; strictly, a tool that cuts with its end, by revolving, as in drilling metals, or by a succession of blows, as in drilling stone; also, a drill press. |
| noun (n.) The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like; hence, diligent and strict instruction and exercise in the rudiments and methods of any business; a kind or method of military exercises; as, infantry drill; battalion drill; artillery drill. |
| noun (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar. |
| noun (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. |
| noun (n.) A small trickling stream; a rill. |
| noun (n.) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. |
| noun (n.) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. |
| noun (n.) A row of seed sown in a furrow. |
| noun (n.) A large African baboon (Cynocephalus leucophaeus). |
| noun (n.) Same as Drilling. |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal. |
| verb (v. t.) To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline. |
| verb (v. i.) To practice an exercise or exercises; to train one's self. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum. |
| verb (v. t.) To sow, as seeds, by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row, like a trickling rill of water. |
| verb (v. t.) To entice; to allure from step; to decoy; -- with on. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees. |
| verb (v. i.) To trickle. |
| verb (v. i.) To sow in drills. |
drink | noun (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions. |
| noun (n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out. |
| verb (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. |
| verb (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. |
| verb (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. |
| verb (v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. |
| verb (v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. |
| verb (v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco. |
drive | noun (n.) The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; -- distinguished from a ride taken on horseback. |
| noun (n.) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving. |
| noun (n.) Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business. |
| noun (n.) In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift. |
| noun (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river. |
| noun (n.) In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven. |
| noun (n.) A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke. |
| noun (n.) An implement used for driving; |
| noun (n.) A mallet. |
| noun (n.) A tamping iron. |
| noun (n.) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. |
| noun (n.) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for playing the longest strokes. |
| verb (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room. |
| verb (v. t.) To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door. |
| verb (v. t.) To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like. |
| verb (v. t.) To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. |
| verb (v. t.) To clear, by forcing away what is contained. |
| verb (v. t.) To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. |
| verb (v. t.) To pass away; -- said of time. |
| verb (v. i.) To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. |
| verb (v. i.) To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven. |
| verb (v. i.) To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door. |
| verb (v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at. |
| verb (v. i.) To distrain for rent. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a drive, or stroke from the tee. |
| verb (v. t.) Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw. |
| (p. p.) Driven. |
driver | noun (n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. |
| noun (n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive. |
| noun (n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. |
| noun (n.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: |
| noun (n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive. |
| noun (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. |
| noun (n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone. |
| noun (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. |