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The head; the back part of the head. "All flaxen was his poll." Shak.

A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.

A head or poll tax; hence, extortion. [Obs.] Foxe.

A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring.

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

A poleax. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off.

ecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. -- Pollen tube, a slender tube which i…

Consisting of meal or pollen.

Covered with pollen. Tennyson.

Producing pollen; polliniferous.

A substance found in the pollen of certain plants. [R.]

To supply with pollen; to impregnate with pollen.

One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees.

of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.

Having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint; -- said of insects.

A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise. Bp. Burnet.

Pollinose.

One who prepared corpses for the funeral.

The act of voting, or of registering a vote. Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place.