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See Stylite.

Imitation of Pindar.

One who imitates Pindar.

One who breeds fish.

The act or practice of plagiarizing.

One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.

A person devoted to worldly pleasure. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. Pleurisy root. (Bot.) (a) The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) which is used as a remedy for pleuritic and other diseases. (b) The plant itself, which has deep orange-colored flowers; -- called also butte…

Superabundance; excess; plethora. [Obs.] Shak.

Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place. [Colloq. U. S.] There is something pokerish about a deserted dwelling. Lowell.

The polestar. See North star, under North.

An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.

Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations.

The art or rocess of making observations with the polariscope.

Pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangement or disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.

The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.

A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair.

Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.

Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.

See Preterist.