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- English Word Poker Definition Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
- English Word Pokerish Definition Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place.
- English Word Pokerish Definition Stiff like a poker.
- English Word Poket Definition A pocket.
- English Word Pokeweed Definition See Poke, the plant.
- English Word Pokey Definition See Poky.
- English Word Poking Definition of Poke
- English Word Poking Definition Drudging; servile.
- English Word Poking-stick Definition A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs.
- English Word Poky Definition Confined; cramped.
- English Word Poky Definition Dull; tedious; uninteresting.
- English Word Polacca Definition A vessel with two or three masts, used in the Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, and without tops, caps, or crosstrees.
- English Word Polacca Definition See Polonaise.
- English Word Polack Definition A Polander.
- English Word Polacre Definition Same as Polacca, 1.
- English Word Polander Definition A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.
- English Word Polar Definition Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds.
- English Word Polar Definition Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed.
- English Word Polar Definition Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar coordinates.
- English Word Polar Definition The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree.