poule i net

A Middle English form of pullen. poulet (pö-lā'), n. [F., a note: see pullet.] A note; a familiar note. Mi Tristram's poulet ended thus: "Nota bene, We meet for croquet in the Aldobrandini." Locker, Mr. Placid's Flirtation. poulp, poulpe (pölp), n. [F. poulpe , poly pus : see polypus .] A cuttlefish or octopus. See polyp ( a ) . The description of the poulpe or devil-fish, by Victor Hugo, in "The Toilers of the Sea," with which so many readers have recently become familiar, is quite as fabulous and unreal as any of the earlier accounts, and even more bizarre. His description represents no real animal whatever. He has attributed to the creature hab The commonest sort of verse which we vse now adayes (viz. the long verse of twelue and fourtene sillables) I know not certainly howe to name it, vnle e I should say that it doth consist of Poulter's measure , which giueth xii. for one dozen and xiiij. for another. Gas coigne, Steele Glas, etc. (ed. Arber), p. 39. The first or the first couple hauing twelue sillables, the other four teene, which versify ers call powlters measure, because so they tallie their wares by dozens. W. Webbe , Discourse of Eng. Poetrie, p. 62. ( Davies .) poulterer (pol'tėr-ér), n. [ poulter + -er1; the suffix being needle ly added as in fruiterer , upholsterer, etc.] 1. One whose busine is the sale of poultry, and often also of hares, game, etc., for the table. poultry are reared and kept; an extensive establishment for the breeding and fattening of poultry and the commercial production of eggs.