Poplar (n.) Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.
Poplar (n.) The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar.
Poplexy (n.) Apoplexy.
Poplin (n.) A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted, -- used especially for women's dresses.
Popliteal (a.) Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space.
Poplitic (a.) Popliteal.
Popper (n.) A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.
Popper (n.) A dagger.
Poppet (n.) See Puppet.
Poppet (n.) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
Poppet (n.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
Poppied (a.) Mingled or interspersed with poppies.
Poppied (a.) Affected with poppy juice; hence, figuratively, drugged; drowsy; listless; inactive.
Popping () a. & n. from Pop.
Popple (v. i.) To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble.
Popple (n.) The poplar.
Popple (n.) Tares.
Poppies (pl. ) of Poppy
Poppy (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule.
Poppy (n.) Alt. of Poppyhead
Poppyhead (n.) A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.
Populace (n.) The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.
Populacy (n.) Populace.
Popular (a.) Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.
Popular (a.) Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.
Popular (a.) Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.
Popular (a.) Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.
Popular (a.) Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.
Popular (a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease.
Populares (n. pl.) The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates.
Popularities (pl. ) of Popularity
Popularity (n.) The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book.
Popularity (n.) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity.
Popularity (n.) Something which obtains, or is intended to obtain, the favor of the vulgar; claptrap.
Popularity (n.) The act of courting the favor of the people.
Popularity (n.) Public sentiment; general passion.
Popularization (n.) The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
Popularized (imp. & p. p.) of Popularize
Popularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Popularize
Popularize (v. t.) To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.
Popularizer (n.) One who popularizes.
Popularly (adv.) In a popular manner; so as to be generally favored or accepted by the people; commonly; currently; as, the story was popularity reported.
Popularness (n.) The quality or state of being popular; popularity.
Populate (a.) Populous.
Populated (imp. & p. p.) of Populate
Populating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Populate
Populate (v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.
Populate (v. i.) To propagate.
Population (n.) The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
Population (n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
Populator (n.) One who populates.
Populicide (n.) Slaughter of the people.
Populin (n.) A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.
Populosity (n.) Populousness.
Populous (a.) Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.
Populous (a.) Popular; famous.
Populous (a.) Common; vulgar.
Populous (a.) Numerous; in large number.
Poraille (n.) Poor people; the poor.
Porbeagle (n.) A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark.
Porcate (a.) Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.
Porcelain (n.) Purslain.
Porcelain (n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.
Porcelainized (a.) Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.
Porcelaneous (a.) Alt. of Porcellaneous
Porcellaneous (a.) Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells.
Porcellaneous (a.) Having a smooth, compact shell without pores; -- said of certain Foraminifera.
Porcelanite (n.) A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.
Porcelanous (a.) Alt. of Porcellanous
Porcellanous (a.) Porcelaneous.
Porch (n.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.
Porch (n.) A portico; a covered walk.
Porcine (a.) Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.
Porcupine (n.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.
Porcupine (n.) Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species.
Pore (v.) One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
Pore (v.) A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
Pored (imp. & p. p.) of Pore
Poring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pore
Pore (v. i.) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.
Poreblind (a.) Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind.
Porer (n.) One who pores.
Porgies (pl. ) of Porgy
Porgy (n.) The scup.
Porgy (n.) The sailor's choice, or pinfish.
Porgy (n.) The margate fish.
Porgy (n.) The spadefish.
Porgy (n.) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.
Porifera (n. pl.) A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiae, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiae, Keratosa or Fibrospongiae, and Silicea.
Poriferan (n.) One of the Polifera.
Poriferata (n. pl.) The Polifera.
Poriform (a.) Resembling a pore, or small puncture.
Porime (n.) A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be almost self-evident.
Poriness (n.) Porosity.
Porism (n.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
Porism (n.) A corollary.
Porismatic (a.) Alt. of Porismatical
Porismatical (a.) Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.
Poristic (a.) Alt. of Poristical
Poristical (a.) Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.