political economy

The science which investigates the nature of wealth and the laws of its production and distribution, including, directly or remotely, the operation of all the causes by which the condition of mankind, or of any society of human beings, in respect to this universal object sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-1283.png:[blocks in formation] cla es of the community-the upper, the middle, and the lower cla es-the means of preserving and developing the prosperity of the people, and de- fending the body politic against foreign aggre ion or domestic sedition. Foreign politics treats of the politics of foreign nations, particularly as affecting the interests of our own country. 2. Popularly, the political sentiments of an ind i- vidual, his procedure in promoting the interests of his party, or his own. pol-1-tīze, v . i. [Gr. politizō =(1) to be a cit i- zen; (2) to govern a state.] To play the politician; to debate or argue about policy. *põl'-1-ture, subst . [Fr., from polir =to polish (q.v.).] A glo given by polishing; a polish. "Fair politure walk'd all her body over." Beaumont: Psyche , vi. pol-1-ty, *pol-i-tie, s. [Lat. politia , from Gr. polite i a government, administration; Fr. politie .] 1. The form, system, or constitution of the civil government of a state or nation; the framework or organization by which the various departments of a civil government are combined into a systematic whole. "The state of polity , so much resembling ancient Greece, has undergone a great change." -Eustace : Italy , vol. iv., dis. § 8. 2. The form or constitution by which any institu- tion is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution. "Maintaining the episcopal polity in England."- Ma- caulay: Hist . Eng . ch. xix. 3. Policy, prudence, art, management. *pol-ive, s . [PULLEY.] põlk, verb in trans . [POLKA.] To dance a polka. ( G. Eliot .) dance was called the 'Pulka' dance, that is the 'half' dance."- Stainer & Barret: Dict. of Music. IMG:content-1284.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1285.png:[blocks in formation] "Poll- evil is a large swelling, inflammation, or impost- hume in the horse's poll or nape of the neck, just between the ears toward the mane."- Farriers ' Dictionary . poll-pick, s . Mining : A pick on the end of a pole, so as to be worked by blows endwise, like a crowbar. counted by the heads, not registered individually.] At Cambridge University, England, a student who takes a pa degree or one without honors; a pa - man. poll-man, s . The same as POLL (3), 8 . põll, *pol, v . t. & i. [POLL (1), 8.] A. Transitive : IMG:content-1286.png:[blocks in formation] 6. To bring to the poll; to receive (as a vote.) *7. To pay as a personal or poll-tax. "The man that poll'd but twelve pence for his head." Dryden: Juvenal , iii. 287. B. Intransitive: 1. To plunder, to pillage; to rob by extortion. "They will poll and spoil so dutrageously, as the very enemy cannot do much worse." Spenser : State of Ireland. 2. To register or record a vote at an election; to vote, to go to the poll. IMG:content-1287.png:[blocks in formation] Quid containing molecular matter. The granules are usually produced in fours, and may be spherical or slightly oblong, cylindrical, . The color is generally yellow, but in Epilobium august i folium , and many Pole mon i aceæ, it is blue; in Verbascum it is red; in no case is it green. When the anther dehisces, the pollen is emitted. It is the male element in a plant, corresponding to the seminal fluid in animals, and is designed to fertilize the seed. [POLLEN-TUBE.] 2. Entomology : Pollen collected from plants and carried on the outer surface of the tibise of bees. Mixed with honey, it becomes the food of the larvæ. pollen-cell, s. [ANTHER, POLLEN.] IMG:content-1288.png:[blocks in formation] pol-le-när-I-ous, adj. [Eng. pollen; -arious.] Consisting of meal or pollen. pol-lened, adj. [Eng. pollen; -ed.] Covered with pollen. "Each like a golden image was pollened from head to foot." Tennyson: Voyage of Maeldune. *pol-len-ger, s. [POLLARD, a.] Pollard trees, brushwood. "Lop for the fewel old pollenger grown." Tu er: Husbandrie , xxxv. 13. pol-len-If-er-oŭs, a . [POLLINIFEROUS.] pol-len-īze, v. t. [Eng. pollen; -ize.] To pol linate (q. v.).