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838 words match “OLLA”

PLUMBAGO n.
A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.
PLUNK v. 2 definitions
To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.
PODRIDA n.
A miscellaneous dish of meats. See Olla-podrida.
POISONSOME a.
Poisonous.[Obs.] Holland.
POLDER n.
A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. [Holland & Belgium]
POLL n.
The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a). Poll book, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election. -- Poll evil (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. -- Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar…
POLLOCK n.
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.
POLWIG n.
A polliwig. Holland.
POLYPETALOUS a.
Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. Martyn.
POPULAR a.
st figs, called popular figs, . . . are, of all others, the basest and of least account. Holland.
POPULARITY n.
f courting the favor of the people. [Obs.] "Indicted . . . for popularity and ambition." Holland.
PORISM n.
A corollary. Brande & C.
PORTOIR n.
ho, or that which, produces. [Obs.] Branches . . . which were portoirs, and bare grapes. Holland.
PORTSALE n.
Public or open sale; auction. [Obs.] Holland.
POSTAL a.
ote, an order payable to bearer, for a sum of money (in the United States less than five dollars under existing law), issued from one post office and payable at another specified office. -- Postal Union, a union for postal purposes entered into by the most important powers, or governments, which have agreed to transpo…
POTTAIN n.
Old pot metal. [Obs.] Holland.
PRAAM n.
A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war. [Written also pram, and prame.]
PRECELLENT a.
Excellent; surpassing. [Obs.] Holland.
PREFINITE a.
Prearranged. [Obs.] " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
PRESENTATIVE a.
, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. Blackstone.
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