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Polluted by sin or wickedness. The hours of this ungodly day. Shak. -- Un*god"li*ly, adv. -- Un*god"li*ness, n.

Not distinguished by a pedigree. [R.] Pollok.

Robbed of a purse, or of money. [R.] Pollock.

Destitute of an escutcheon. [R.] Pollock.

A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.

y a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised. Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom. Bacon.

A mode of fishing with a hand line for pollack, mackerel, and the like.

Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure. White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. Dryden. No whiter page than Addison's remains. Pope.

washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc. Whiting pollack. (Zoöl.) Same as Pollack. -- Whiting pout (Zoöl.), the bib, 2.

Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.

called also garden warbler, golden warbler, summer yellowbird, summer warbler, and yellow-poll warbler. -- Yellow wash (Pharm.), yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water, -- a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater. -- Yellow wren (Zoöl.) (a) The European willow warbler. (b) The European wood w…

since. [Obs. or Poetic] As it hath been of olde times yore. Chaucer. Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to them for judgment just do fly. Spenser. Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of yore. "But Satan now is wiser than of yore." Pope. Where Abraham fed his flock of yore. Keble.…