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Same as Polacca, 1.

A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polygalaceæ) of which Polygala is the type.

See Placophora.

rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.

Populace. [Obs.] Feltham.

A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceæ), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.

Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.

Lace whose pattern includes one or more representations of baskets or bowls from which flowers spring.

Prior to the glacial or drift period.

The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates. Prelacies may be termed the greater benefices. Ayliffe.

A suborder of Gephyræa, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills.

Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceæ), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Defending or preserving from disease; preventive. Coxe.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceæ), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. The earl . . . was replaced in his government. Bacon.

The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.

Capable or admitting of being put back into a place.