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See puppetry. pop-eyed (pop'id), a. Having pop-eyes. [U. S.] pop-eyes (pop'iz), n. pl. Full, bulging, or prominent eyes. [U. S.] popinjay , popynjay , pop in gay , popyn IMG:content-0649.jpg:[ocr errors] Church: used in opprobrium: as, popish doctrines or practices; popish forms and ceremonies. Yet, for I know thou art religious, And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies, Which I have seen thee careful to observe, Therefore I urge thy oath. Shak . , Tit. And., v. 1. 76. Popish Methodists. Same as Dialectic Methodists (which see, under Methodist ). - Popish plot. See plot1.=Syn. See papal. popishly (po'pish-li), adv. To or toward popery; as regards popery: used in opprobrium: as, to be popishly inclined. Owen's unkle, who was a papist, or at least popishly affected (from whom he expected legacies), dash'd his name out from his last will and testament. IMG:content-0650.png:[blocks in formation] Hughes , Tom Brown's School Days, I. ii. ( Davies .) [Early mod. E. popler ; popler , poplere , populere D. populier, popelier, poplier , peuplier , F. peuplier , a poplar-tree, poplar, lus , poplar: see popple2 , Populus .] 1. A tree of the genus Populus ; also, the wood of the tree. The poplars are trees of rapid growth, mostly of moderate size, producing varieties of light soft wood, useful for many peuple, poplar, popinjay (pop'in-jā), n . [Formerly also pop in- gay ; papinjay , papingay, papyngay , popejay . papejay = D. papegaai = MLG. papagoie , pape- goie, LG. papegoje je = MHG. MHG. papegan , G. papagei = Sw. papegoja = Dan. papegöje , pape- jaye , papegai (F. papegai , papegaut ), also pape- gau , papegant -Pr. papagai = Sp. papagayo = Pg. papagaio = It. papagallo , ML.papa gallus , purposes requiring lightne and moderate strength; in As papiayez paynted pernyng bitwene. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 611. Certeyn men that kepen Bryddes, as Ostrycches, Papyngayes wel spekynge, Mandeville , Travels, p. 238. Gerfacouns, Sparehaukes,.. and Briddes syngynge. The popynjay ful of delicasye. Chaucer , Parliament of Fowls, 1. 359. Ascham . Young popinjays learn quickly to speak. Likewise there be pop in i a yes very great and gentle, and some of them haue their foreheads yellow, and this sort do quickly learne to speak, and speak much. Hakluyt's Voyages , III. 700. America the wood is largely converted into pulp for papermaking. Various species are planted for shade and ornament. The aspens and cottonwoods are true poplars, though le called by that name. See asp1, aspen, and cot tonwood. 2. A tree of some other genus in some way resembling a poplar. Balsam-poplar, Populus bal samifera, the tacamahack. Also called (especially the variety candicans ) balm of Gilead.- Black Italian poplar, a name in England of the balm-of-Gilead tree, which abounds in Italy, but its origin is not well known.Black poplar, Populus nigra, a native of central and southern Europe and temperate Asia, planted as a forest tree elsewhere in Europe. Its wood is used for flooring, joiners' and coopers' work, and in the making of gunpowder, charcoal, etc., and its buds in the preparation of an ointment. See ointment of poplar - buds, under ointment. Carolina poplar. Same as necklace - poplar . - Downy poplar, Populus heterophylla , the river or swamp-cottonwood, a moderate-sized tree of no great value, found in bottom-land swamps from Connecticut to Louisiana and Arkansas.--Gray poplar, a variety or hybrid of the white poplar, its wood esteemed best of European poplars. - Lombardy poplar, a species, Populus pyramidal is ( P.dilatata , Ait.), or probably a remarkable variety of the black poplar, of Oriental origin. Its fastigiate habit gives it a striking columnar or spire-shaped outline, on account of which planted to some extent. It is pecker of Europe, virid is. Gecinus The daughters of Pierius, who were turned into pop in jays or woodpeck ers. Peacham, On Draw [ing. ( Latham . ) 3. The figure of a parrot or other bird used as a mark for archery or firearms. this purpose, it was usually hung to the top of a pole so as to swing in the wind. When the musters had been made JUNGLINC Popinjay, or Green Woodpecker ( Gecinus virid is). and duly reported, the young men, as was usual, were to mix in various sports, of which the chief was to shoot at the popinjay, an ancient game formerly practised with archery, but at this period with firearms. This was the figure of a bird, decked with party-colored feathers, so as to resemble a popinjay or parrot. It was suspended to a pole, and served for a mark at which the competitors discharged their fusees and carabines in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day. Scott , Old Mortality, i. IMG:content-0651.png:[blocks in formation] poplar, the common cottonwood, Populus mon i lifer a, translating the specific name: so called on account of its raceme of pods, which resembles a string of beads. It is a large tree, sometimes 150 feet high, found from Vermont to Texas and the base of the Rocky Mountains, bordering all streams of the great plains. Its light soft wood is used for packing-cases, fence-boards, and fuel, and largely for paper-pulp. Also Carolina poplar. - Ointment of poplar-buds. See ointment. - Ontario poplar. Same as balsam - poplar. - Poplars of Yarrumt, buttermilk. [Cant.] ( Davies.) Here's pannum and lap, and good poplars of Yarrum. Brome, Jovial Crew, ii. Queensland poplar, Hom alan thus populifolius, one of the Euphorbiaceae, a large shrub with poplar-like leaves, found in Australia and the Pacific islands. Silver or silver-leaf poplar. Same as white poplar. -Trembling poplar, the European aspen. See aspl and populin. Tulip-poplar. Same as yellow poplar. - Weeping poplar, the variety pendula of Populus grand ident at a, the large-toothed aspen. Both species and variety are used ornamentally. - White poplar, Populus alba, native in Europe and middle Asia, notable for the silvery-white under surface of its wavy-toothed leaves, and often planted, but highly objectionable on lawns, on account of suckers from the roots. Also called silver poplar, silver - leaf poplar, white asp, and abele. - Yellow poplar, the tulip-tree or white-wood. See Liriodendron. poplar-birch (pop'lär-berch), n. A European tree, Betula alba. See birch, 1. poplar-borer (pop'lär-bōr"ėr), п. A longicorn beetle, Saperda calcar at a, the larva of which bores the trunks of various poplars.