Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is
done; a polling place.
Pol`li*nif"er*ous (?), a. [L. pollen, -inis, pollen + -ferous: cf. F.
pollinifËre.] (Bot.) Producing pollen; polleniferous.
||Pol*lin"i*um (?), n.; pl. Pollinia (#). [NL. See Pollen.] (Bot.) A
||coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.
Pol"li*nose` (?), a. [L. pollen, -inis, dust.] (Zoˆl.) Having the
surface covered with a fine yellow dust, like pollen.
{ Pol"li*wig (?), Pol"li*wog (?) }, n. [OE. polwigle. Cf. Poll head,
and Wiggle.] (Zoˆl.) A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.
Pol"lock (?), n. [See Pollack.] (Zoˆl.) 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.
Pol"lu*cite (?), n. [See Pollux, and 4th Castor.] (Min.) A colorless
transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or
castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and cÊsia.
Called also pollux.
Pol*lute" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polluted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Polluting.] [L. pollutus, p. p. of polluere to defile, to pollute, from
a prep. appearing only in comp. + luere to wash. See Position, Lave.]
1. To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to
desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.
The land was polluted with blood.