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That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees. "An arboreal walk." Pollok.

as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.

elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.

wn, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

Belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke.

o designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others. Nott.

To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained. Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. Byron.

The bluepoll.

A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

Wearing a busk. Pollok.

To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.

A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.

The Mexican chery (Prunus Capollin).

the northernmost of the two bright stars in the constellation Gemini, the other being Pollux.

A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.