Poles

in magnetics, are two points of a loadstone, corresponding to the poles of the world; the one pointing to the north, the other to the south. See MaGNETIsM. Pore, or PoLAR sTAR, is a star of the se- cond magnitude, the last in the tail of ursa mi- nor. Its longitude Mr. Flamsteed makes 24° 14! 41”; its latitude, 66° 4’ 11”. The nearne of this star to the pole, whence it happens that it never sets, renders it of vast service in nav i- gation, . for determining the meridian line, the latitude, . Po xe (Reginald), a cardinal and kinsman to Henry VII. was bred at Corpus Christ i college, Oxford, and made dean of Exeter. According to Camden, he was born in 1500, at Stover ton castle, in Worcesters hire, and was instructed in the Car thus i an monastery at Shene, near Rich- nond, in Surry. At twelve he becamé a stu- _dent at Macedalen college, Oxford. His royal ~“yelation conferred several favours on him, de-. Signing to raise him to the highest dignities in. the church; and after he had taken.the suitable. degrees, allowed him a large pension to enable ~*, him to travel into Italy. Henry the Eighth’s “dispute with the holy see occasioned Pole to stay out of England, and to write a piece called Pro unitate Ecclesiastic a, for which and ref us- ~~ 2ing to return when ordered, his pension was, taken away, and himself attainted. The pope. » and emperor compensated the lo of his church “preferments;the former had made him cardinal f +n, 1536, and sent him as nuncio both to * France and Flanders. Under Mary he return hep England in 1554, and was made arch-. bis hop of Canterbury. He died at Lambeth palace in 1558, sixteen hours after the death of the queen..Though zealously attached to all the superstitions of his church, and to the -preténsions of the papacy, he was a man of amiable manners, mild disposition, great learn-! % ing, and’a patron of men of letters. ToPoue. v.a. (from the noun.) To furnish. with poles (Mortimer).' '. “PO'LEAXE, s.. (pole and ave.) An axe. fixed to a long pole (Howel). - PO'LE-CAT, a species of weasel, partaking _ -¥n some degree of the figure and propensities of the martin and the ferret: it is smaller than the first, and considerably larger than the second 5 is an inhabitant of the bushy coverts in the neighbourhood of lonely farm-houses; to the poultry, eggs, and dove-houses of which they are constant and destructive enemies: ‘The effluvia, or rather stench, arising from their bo. dies is so truly offensive, that 1t has long since Jaid the foundation of the well-known proverbial expre ion of ‘¢ stinking like a pole-cat.” See MusTELa.