POLITES

Name Report For First Name POLITES:

First name POLITES's origin is Greek. POLITES means "a myth name". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with POLITES below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of polites.(Brown names are of the same origin (Greek) with POLITES and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with POLITES - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming POLITES

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES POL�TES AS A WHOLE:

NAMES RHYMING WITH POL�TES (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (olites) - Names That Ends with olites:

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (lites) - Names That Ends with lites:

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ites) - Names That Ends with ites:

thersites brites

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (tes) - Names That Ends with tes:

tiridates atlantes acestes achates aeetes antiphates corybantes iobates laertes melecertes orestes philoctetes pityocamptes procrustes socrates thyestes zelotes zetes bates montes sketes agestes yates

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (es) - Names That Ends with es:

agnes atropes ceres erinyes hyades keres numees pules el-marees farees mounafes calles eliaures gesnes kanelingres benes devries bes menes psusennes ramses styles jacques achilles agamedes alcides anchises ares atreides cebriones chryses damocles diomedes eteocles eupeithes gilles gyes hercules hermes hippomenes iphicles laestrygones lycomedes oles polydeuces polynices pylades ulysses xerxes mozes abantiades rares anglides anlicnes delores dolores eadignes gertrudes ines lourdes louredes lyones mercedes ynes ames andres aries brandeles byrnes des eames eulises fitzjames forbes giannes

NAMES RHYMING WITH POL�TES (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (polite) - Names That Begins with polite:

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (polit) - Names That Begins with polit:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (poli) - Names That Begins with poli:

polikwaptiwa

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pol) - Names That Begins with pol:

pol polak poldi poll pollock pollux polly poloma polycarp polydamas polydorus polyeidus polyhymnia polymestor polyphemus polyxena

Rhyming 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 powwaw

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH POL�TES:

First Names which starts with 'pol' and ends with 'tes':

First Names which starts with 'po' and ends with 'es':

First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 's':

palamedes palomydes palsmedes panagiotis pancratius pandareos pandarus paris parkins parmis parthenios patroclus pegasus peisistratus peleus pelias pelleas pelles pelops peneus pentheus peredurus peredwus pericles perkins perris perseus persis persius petrus phantasos phelps phemius pheobus philips phillips phillis philoetius phineas phinees phineus phorbas phorbus phorcys phrixus phylis phyllis piaras piers pinochos pirithous pittheus pius plexippus plutus prasutagus prentiss priapus proinsias prokopios prometheus protesilaus proteus pslomydes pyramus pyrrhus

English Words Rhyming POLITES

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES POL�TES AS A WHOLE:

politesse

noun (n.) Politeness.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH POL�TES (According to last letters):

Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (olites) - English Words That Ends with olites:

orbitolites

noun (n.) A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.

Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (lites) - English Words That Ends with lites:

nummulites

noun (n.) A genus of extinct Tertiary Foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.

Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ites) - English Words That Ends with ites:

aetites

noun (n.) See Eaglestone.

ascites

noun (n.) A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum.

dalmanites

noun (n.) Same as Dalmania.

equites

noun (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

favosites

noun (n.) A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.

halysites

noun (n.) A genus of Silurian fossil corals; the chain corals. See Chain coral, under Chain.

nereites

noun (n. pl.) Fossil tracks of annelids.

quirites	noun (n. pl.) Roman citizens.
	noun (n. pl.) Roman citizens.

pentremites

noun (n.) A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.

porites

noun (n.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.

pyrites	noun (n.) A name given to a number of metallic minerals, sulphides of iron, copper, cobalt, nickel, and tin, of a white or yellowish color.
	(pl. ) of Pyrite

sorites

noun (n.) An abridged form of stating of syllogisms in a series of propositions so arranged that the predicate of each one that precedes forms the subject of each one that follows, and the conclusion unites the subject of the first proposition with the predicate of the last proposition

stalactites	noun (n.) A stalactite.
	(pl. ) of Stalactite

tympanites

noun (n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympany.

whites	noun (n. pl.) Leucorrh/a.
	noun (n. pl.) The finest flour made from white wheat.
	noun (n. pl.) Cloth or garments of a plain white color.

Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (tes) - English Words That Ends with tes:

acates

noun (n. pl.) See Cates.

annates

noun (n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.

antes

noun (n. pl.) Antae. See Anta.

atlantes

noun (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.

ascomycetes

noun (n. pl.) A large class of higher fungi distinguished by septate hyphae, and by having their spores formed in asci, or spore sacs. It comprises many orders, among which are the yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles, morels, etc.

barytes

noun (n.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

bootes

noun (n.) A northern constellation, containing the bright star Arcturus.

basidiomycetes

noun (n. pl.) A large subdivision of fungi coordinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

cates

noun (n.) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.

cerastes

noun (n.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

chaetetes

noun (n.) A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.

clidastes

noun (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles, allied to the Mosasaurus. See Illust. in Appendix.

cormophytes

noun (n. pl.) Alt. of Cormophyta

cortes

noun (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.

curtes

adjective (a.) Courteous.

cyphonautes

noun (n.) The free-swimming, bivalve larva of certain Bryozoa.

dermestes

noun (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

diabetes

noun (n.) A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.

disparates

noun (n. pl.) Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.

ecclesiastes

adjective (a.) One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

ephialtes

noun (n.) The nightmare.

gasteromycetes

noun (n. pl.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

gerontes

noun (n. pl.) Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.

grammates

noun (n. pl.) Rudiments; first principles, as of grammar.

hippocrates

noun (n.) A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about 460 B. C.

hymenomycetes

noun (n. pl.) One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed.

hyphomycetes

noun (n. pl.) One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads.

intransigentes

noun (n. pl.) The extreme radicals; the party of the irreconcilables.

jutes

noun (n. pl.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.

lates

noun (n.) A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer) is found in the Ganges and other Indian rivers. They are valued as food fishes.

litotes

noun (n.) A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city.

louchettes

noun (n. pl.) Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front.

microlestes

noun (n.) An extinct genus of small Triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in European strata.

mycetes

noun (n.) A genus of South American monkeys, including the howlers. See Howler, 2, and Illust.

myzontes

noun (n. pl.) The Marsipobranchiata.

mesomycetes

noun (n. pl.) One of the three classes into which the fungi are divided in Brefeld's classification.

myxomycetes

noun (n. pl.) A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerly regarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to be plants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta). They are found on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creep very slowly over the surface and ingest solid food.

nates	noun (n. pl.) The buttocks.
	noun (n. pl.) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
	noun (n. pl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

nemertes

noun (n.) A genus of nemertina.

optimates

noun (n. pl.) The nobility or aristocracy of ancient Rome, as opposed to the populares.

pahutes

noun (n. pl.) See Utes.

parietes	noun (n. pl.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
	noun (n. pl.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.
	(pl. ) of Paries

penates

noun (n. pl.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.

primates

noun (n. pl.) The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

procrustes

noun (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.

pterocletes

noun (n. pl.) A division of birds including the sand grouse. They are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called also Pteroclomorphae.

phycomycetes

noun (n. pl.) A large, important class of parasitic or saprophytic fungi, the algal or algalike fungi. The plant body ranges from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much-branched mycelium. Reproduction is mainly sexual, by the formation of conidia or sporangia; but the group shows every form of transition from this method through simple conjugation to perfect sexual reproduction by egg and sperm in the higher forms.

rudistes

noun (n. pl.) An extinct order or suborder of bivalve mollusks characteristic of the Cretaceous period; -- called also Rudista. See Illust. under Hippurite.

saccharomycetes

noun (n. pl.) A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.

sarcoptes

noun (n.) A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH POL�TES (According to first letters):

Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (polite) - Words That Begins with polite:

politeness	noun (n.) High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.
	noun (n.) The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (polit) - Words That Begins with polit:

politic	noun (n.) A politician.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under Body.
	adjective (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.
	adjective (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.

political	adjective (a.) Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to public policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a party, or to parties, in the state; as, his political relations were with the Whigs.
	adjective (a.) Politic; wise; also, artful.

politicalism

noun (n.) Zeal or party spirit in politics.

politicaster

noun (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.

politician	noun (n.) One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman.
	noun (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.
	adjective (a.) Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful.

politicist

noun (n.) A political writer.

politics

noun (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.

noun (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.

polity	noun (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.
	noun (n.) Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.
	noun (n.) Policy; art; management.

politzerization

noun (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.

Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (poli) - Words That Begins with poli:

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.

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

policeman

noun (n.) A member of a body of police; a constable.

policial

adjective (a.) Relating to the police.

policied	adjective (a.) Policed.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Policy

policy	noun (n.) Civil polity.
	noun (n.) The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.
	noun (n.) The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.
	noun (n.) Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem.
	noun (n.) Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.
	noun (n.) Motive; object; inducement.
	noun (n.) A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
	noun (n.) The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.
	noun (n.) A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.
	verb (v. t.) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
	() One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

policying

noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Policy

polish	noun (n.) The language of the Poles.
	noun (n.) A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.
	noun (n.) Anything used to produce a gloss.
	noun (n.) Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.
	adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
	verb (v. t.) To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
	verb (v. t.) Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
	verb (v. i.) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.

polishing	noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Polish
	() a. & n. from Polish.

polishable

adjective (a.) Capable of being polished.

polished	adjective (a.) Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
	(imp. & p. p.) of Polish

polishedness

noun (n.) The quality of being polished.

polisher

noun (n.) One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.

polishment

noun (n.) The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.

polive

noun (n.) A pulley.

polissoir	noun (n.) A polishing or grinding implement or instrument.
	noun (n.) A tool consisting of a flat wooden block with a long iron handle, used for flattening out split cylinders of blown glass.

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.

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.

polka	noun (n.) A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time.
	noun (n.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented.

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.