3. (Zoˆl.) (a) A fish, the chub. (b) A stag that has cast its antlers.
(c) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
Pol"lard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pollarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Pollarding.]
To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows. Evelyn.
Poll"ax` (?), n. A poleax. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Polled (?), a. Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the
poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut
off. (b) Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. "The polled
bachelor." Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag.
(d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep.
Pol"len (?), n. [L. pollen fine flour, fine dust; cf. Gr. &?;] 1. Fine
bran or flour. [Obs.] Bailey.
2. (Bot.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See
Flower, and Illust. of Filament.
Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a
pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing
pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. -- Pollen tube, a
slender tube which issues from the pollen grain on its contact with the
stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the
fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule.
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Pol`len*a"ri*ous (?), a. Consisting of meal or pollen.
Pol"lened (?), a. Covered with pollen. Tennyson.
Pol`len*if"er*ous (?), a. [Pollen + -ferous.] (Bot.) Producing pollen;
polliniferous.
Pol"len*in (?), n. [Cf. F. pollÈnine.] (Chem.) A substance found in the
pollen of certain plants. [R.]
Pol"len*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pollenized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pollenizing (?).] To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.
Poll"er (?), n. [From Poll] 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.
||Pol"lex (?), n.; pl. Pollices (#). [the thumb.] (Anat.) 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.
Pol"li*cate (?), a. [L. pollex, pollicis, a thumb.] (Zoˆl.) Having a
curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; -- said of
insects.
Pol*lic`i*ta"tion (?), n. [L. pollicitatio, fr. pollicitari to promise,
v. intens. fr. polliceri to promise: cf. F. pollicitation.] 1. A
voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise. Bp. Burnet.
2. (Roman Law) A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not
been accepted by the person to whom it is made. Bouvier.
Pol"li*nate (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pollinose.
Pol"li*nate (?), v. t. (Bot.) To apply pollen to (a stigma). --
Pol`li*na"tion (#), n. (Bot.)
||Pol*linc"tor (?), n. [L., fr. pollingere.] (Rom. Antiq.) One who
||prepared corpses for the funeral.
Poll"ing (?), n. [See Poll the head.] 1. The act of topping, lopping,
or cropping, as trees or hedges.