any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron, One who pokes

Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed, tube, containing a polarizing apparatus, turning on an axis parallel to that of the earth, and indicating the hour of the day on an hour circle, by being turned toward the plane of maximum polarization of the light of the sky, which is always 90› from the sun, the aurora borealis or australis, noun_ A great circle two of whose points are each a quadrant from a given point_ it is the polar of the given point, Given a trihedral; to each face from the vertex erect a perpendicular ray on the same side as the third edge; the trihedral they form is the polar of the given one

In a two-horse vehicle, a long tapering piece of wood, forming the shaft or tongue, carrying the neck-yoke or the pole-straps, and sometimes the whiffletrees, by means of which the carriage is drawn, One of the points of a body at which its attractive or repulsive energy is concentrated, as the free ends of a magnet, one called the north, the other the south pole, which attract more strongly than any other part. See magnet, The firmament; the sky, intransitive verb_ To propel with a pole, To strike, poke, or stir with a pole, To use ski poles to maintain or gain speed

A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community, The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty, That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state, verb_ maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol, transitive verb_ To observe and issue warnings or correctives regarding, To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group, To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance

Plural form of policy

A written contract by which a person, company, or party engages to pay a certain sum on certain contingencies, as in the case of fire or shipwreck, in the event of death, etc., on the condition of receiving a fixed sum or percentage on the amount of the risk, or certain periodical payments. See insurance, Polity; administration; public business, The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course, transitive verb_ obsolete To regulate by laws; to reduce to order

A substance containing chemical agents or abrasive particles and applied to smooth or shine a surface, Elegance of style or manners; refinement, Smoothness; regularity; elegance; refinement; especially, elegance of style or manners, intransitive verb_ To make smooth and shiny by rubbing or chemical action, To refine or remove flaws from; perfect or complete, To become smooth or shiny by being rubbed, transitive verb_ Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite, To refine; remove imperfections from, To apply shoe polish to shoes, adjective_ Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants

Made shiny and smooth by rubbing or chemical action, Having the husk or outer layers removed. Used of grains of rice, Having no imperfections or errors; well-executed; flawless, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of polish

Of, relating to, or dealing with the structure or affairs of government, politics, or the state, Based on or motivated by self-serving interests, especially in attempting to gain power or to please people of a higher rank in an organization, Indicating national or regional boundaries. Used of maps, noun_ A political officer or agent, as distinguished from military, commercial, and diplomatic officers or agents; specifically, in India, an officer of the British government who deals with native states or tribes and directs their political affairs, A political offender or prisoner, a publication centred around politics

Plural form of politician