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An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

His potentates to council called by night. Milton. O great in action and in council wise. Pope. Aulic council. See under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise con…

To work in oppositeion to; to counteract. That counterworksh folly and caprice. Pope.

The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. Shak.

To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Pope.

A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] Pope.

right; as, a title given one by courtesy. Courtesy title, a title assumed by a person, or popularly conceded to him, to which he has no valid claim; as, the courtesy title of Lord prefixed to the names of the younger sons of noblemen.

of a court; court-craft; finesse. [Obs.] She [the Queen] being composed of courtship and Popery. Fuller.

glish Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant." He [Wharton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house. Macualay.

applied to the hood and garment together. What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl Pope.

Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.

me are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.

A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes. [U. S.]

arments, also for the dress of some clergymen. A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. Crape myrtle (Bot.), a very ornamental shrub (Lagerströmia Indica) from the East Indies, often planted in the Southern United States. Its foliage is like that of the myrtle, and the flower has wavy crisped petals. -- Orient…

ach end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler. -- Popping crease (Cricket),, a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter. J. H. Walsh (Encyc. of Rural Sports).

honor. I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please. Pope.

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope.

Any great wickedness or sin; iniguity. Nocrime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love. Pope.

A treatise on crime or the criminal population. -- Crim`i*nol"o*gist (-j, n.