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A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate. [Russia] Brande & C.

tonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering. They are polluted offerings more abhorred Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. Shak.

Self-pollution; masturbation.

dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.

Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.

An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.

without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses. I pray thee, pardon my sin. 1 S Apollo, pardon My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle Shak.

A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To climb Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]

The head; the poll. [R.] "A rough pash." Shak.

Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition. [R.] Pollok.

Apollo; the sun god.

Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. "Piacular pollution." De Quincey.

To perform the act of planting. I have planted; Apollos watered. 1 Cor. iii. 6.

An extortioner. See Poller. [Obs.] Bacon.

The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also pollybait. [Prov. Eng.]

Without horns; polled. [Prov. Eng.] "That poley heifer." H. Kingsley.

Same as Pollicate.

A polliwig. Holland.

See Polliwig.

A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. [Obs.] Just Apollo, president of verse. Waller.