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To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows. Evelyn.

A poleax. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A name given to several different silver coins of Denmark, Holland, Sweden,, NOrway, etc., varying in value from about 30 cents to $1.10; also, a British coin worth about 36 cents, used in Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. See Rigsdaler, Riksdaler, and Rixdaler.

Capable of being rolled.

A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penæa), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.

The rock pigeon. See under Pigeon.

To cover, or provide with, a sollar.

Glue made from a bull's hide.

Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. Wright.

Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll. Drayton.

Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.

A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.

A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.

In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.

An aborted offspring. [Obs.] Holland.

Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

mplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished bees. Holland. Daughter of God and man, accomplished Eve. Milton.

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.] Holland.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.