polianite (polianit)

[Named in allusion to its gray color, often been confounded with the commoner mineral pyrolusite. policial mi ion of such as require any previous combination or arrangement. See detective, constable. Time out of mind the military department has had a name; so has that of justice; the power which occupies itself in preventing mischief, not till lately, and that but a loose one, the police . Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xvi. 17, note 2. 3. In the United States army, the act or proce of policing (see police, v., 2): a kind of fatigue duty: as, to go on police; to do police. - Commi ioners of police. See commi ioner. Military police. (a) An organized body employed within an army to maintain civil order, as distinct from military discipline. (b) A civil police having a military organization. Such are the French gendarmerie, the sbirri of Italy, and the Irish constabulary. - Mounted police, a body of police who serve on horseback. - Police board, in several of the United States, a board constituted by the justices of the county for the control of county police, public buildings, roads, bridges, ferries, county funds, lunatics, paupers, vagrants, etc. Murfree, Justices' Practice. - Police burgh. See burgh.- Police captain, in some of the larger cities of the United States, as in New York, a subordinate officer in the police force having general charge of the members of the force serving in his precinct, and special powers of search and entry for purposes of search. Police commi ioner. (a) See commi ioner. (b) In Scotland, one of a body elected by the ratepayers to manage police affairs in burghs. - Police constable, a member of a police force; a policeman. Abbreviated P. C.- Police court, a court for the trial of offenders brought up on charges preferred by the police. - Police inspector, a superintendent or superior officer of police, or of a subordinate department therein. - Police jury, the designation in Louisiana of the local authority in each parish States), with the exercise of pole-plate (pol'plāt), n. In building , a small wall-plate resting on the ends of the tie-beams of a roof, and supporting the lower ends of the λύς , many, + ἄνθος , flower.] A commonplace- (corresponding bene rated common rafters. IMG:content-0556.png:[blocks in formation] lacustris. Also pool - rush. [Prov. Eng.] pole-sling (pol's ling), n. A pole, about twenty five feet long, from which are suspended a leather seat and a board for the feet, carried by two or more bearers: used for traveling in Dahomey. N. A. Rev., CXLV. 361. pole-staff (põl′staf), n. The pole of a net. pole-star (pol'stär), n. 1. The star Polar is, of the second magnitude, situated near the north pole of the heavens. It served in former times, and still serves among primitive peoples, as a guide in navigation. It is now about 14 from the pole, very nearly in a line with the two stars in the Dipper (a and ẞ) which form the further edge of the bowl. About 5,000 years ago the pole-star was a Drac on is, and in about 12,000 it will be a Lyræ. It is wel knowen (moste noble prince) that the starre which we caule the pole starre , or nor the starre (cauled of the Italians Tramontana), is not the very poynte of the pole Artyke vppon the whiche the axes or extremities of heauens are turned abowte. R. Eden, tr. of Peter Martyr (First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 90). 2. Hence, that which serves as a guide or director; a lodestar.-3. In biol., a polar star; one of the two stellate figures which may be borne upon the poles of the fusiform nucleus-spindle in the proce of karyokinesis. pole-strap (pol's trap), n. A heavy strap for connecting a carriage-pole with the collar of a horse; a pole-piece. See cut under harne . poletet, n. A Middle English form of pullet. pole-tip (pol'tip), n. A cylindrical cap fixed on the front end of the pole of a vehicle. pole-torpedo (pōl'tôr-pē"dō), n. A torpedo projected on the end of a pole, and operated from a boat or ve el: usually called spar - torpedo. pole-vault (põlvált), n. A vault, generally over a horizontal bar, performed with the aid of a pole.