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A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

Gold-devouring. [R.] H. Walpole.

To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet. [Obs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.

To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait. Walpole.

l bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

s of life." Addison. Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. South. Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.

To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. Holland.

The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] Dryden.

A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

Same as Bibliopole.

Doubly polar; having two poles; as, a bipolar cell or corpuscle.

Of or pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte or his family.

e by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.

A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc.

A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout. H. Walpole.

To spit; to pierce as with a spit. I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. Shak.

A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole.

Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.