poplar dagger (poplardag"er)

A bombycid moth, Acronycta populi, whose larva feeds on poplar-leaves. See cut under dagger1, 4. poplared (pop'lärd), a. [ IMG:content-0652.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0653.jpg:[blocks in formation] heads of a lathe. Also pop it . See cut under lathe-head.-5. A puppet-valve.-6. Small bits of wood upon a boat's gunwale, to support the rowlocks and wash strake. poppet-head (pop'et-hed), п. 1. The adjust- able head of a lathe which supports the back dead-center.-2. In mining , the pulley-frame or head-gear over a shaft, supporting the pul- leys over which the ropes used in winding or hoisting pa . Also called pulley-frame, shaft - tackle , head - gear , head - stocks , and pit - head frame . poppet-valve (pop'et-valv), n. Same as puppet- poppied (pop'id), a . [ poppy + -ed2.] 1. Pro- ducing or covered or grown over with poppies; mingled with poppies: as, poppied fields; "pop- pied corn," Keats , Endymion, i.-2. Resulting opium; listle . poppingt, n. [ME. poppinge , poppynge ; verbal n. of pop2 , v .: see pop2 .] The act of smearing the face with white lead (ceruse). 2. One of several plants belonging to other genera of the Papaveraceæ .-3. The foxglove. - 4. In arch ., same as poppy - head . - Black pop- py. See def. 1. California poppy. See Eschscholtzia. Corn-poppy. See def. 1.-Field-poppy. Same as corn - poppy .-Garden poppy, specifically, the opium- poppy. - Horn-poppy, or horned poppy, a small sea- side plant of the poppy family, Glaucium luteum , with clasping leaves and solitary yellow flowers: so named from the long curved horn-like seed-pods. Also sea- poppy . Long-headed poppy. See def. 1.- Mexican poppy. See prickly poppy . - Oriental poppy. def. 1.- Poppy trash. See trash . - Prickly poppy, Argemone Mexican a , the Mexican poppy, now widely dif- fused, often a weed. The pods and leaves are prickly, роррусcock (pop'i-kok), n. [Appar. popl in dim. form, + cock1 , in vague addition of con- tempt.] Trivial talk; nonsense; stuff and rub- bish. [U. S. vulgarism.] popple1 (pop'l), v . i .; pret. and pp. poppled , ppr. poppling . [Dim. and freq. of pop1 .] 1. To poppy-head (pop'i-hed), n . And on the stany's owt thar harnys [he] dang, Quhil brayn and eyn and blude al poplit owt. His brains came poppling out like water. Cotton , Burlesque upon Burlesque, p. 226. (Davies.) popper1 (pop'ėr), n . [ pop1 + -er1.] 1. A utensil for popping corn; a corn-popper. It is made of wire gauze with a cover and a long wooden handle. [U. S.] -2. Anything that pops or makes a popping sound, as a fire- cracker or pistol. And all round the glad church lie old bottles With gunpowder stopped, Which will be, when the Image re-enters, Religiously popped. [ popple1 , v .] A ripple. [ popul- ( tre ) = MLG. poppele , pop pele one , popplione , LG. poppele , poppelo = MHG. popel , papel , G. poppel , pap- pel = Sw. Dan. poppel pouple , pouble , pible = Sp. pobo , chopo = Pg. choupo , chopo = It. pioppo , pioppa , pори- lus , a poplar; perhaps for * palpulus , √ palp in palp it are , tremble.] Same as poplar . [Prov. Eng. and U. S.] popples (pop'l), n. The corn-cockle, Lychnis Githago. [Prov. Eng.] poppy (pop'i), n.; pl. poppies (-iz). [ popy , popig , papig = F. pavot , Norm. pap i = Pr. paver , papaver = Sp. ababol , corn- poppy, amapola , poppy, corn-poppy, = Pg. pa- poula = It. papavero , papaver , poppy. The Gr. word was μήκων ; cf. meconium . The L. pa- paver suffered considerable change in pa ing into vernacular use in later languages. With poppy in the architectural sense, cf. F. poupée in same sense (whence E. poop2 ), appar. an ex- tended use of poupée , the bunch of flax on a distaff, hence a distaff, also a crown-graft, par- ticular uses of poupée , a doll, rag-baby: see pup- pet .] 1. A plant of the genus Papaver . The pop- IMG:content-0654.jpg:[blocks in formation] pies are showy herbs, in the New World cultivated chiefly in gardens, and wild or cultivated in the Old. The P. somniferum , is of importance as the source of opium and as yielding, in its (See poppy - oil and maw-seed.) Its cap- sules afford also a syrup or extract used as a sedative, and in hot decoction serve as an anodyne appli- cation. The opium- poppy is a glaucous plant, with wavy clasping leaves. The petals and seeds vary has white petals and white seeds, that in Asia Minor purple petals and dark seeds; they are called respectively white and black poppy . The common red poppy, corn-poppy, or corn-rose is P. Rhœas , abounding in central and southern Europe and western Asia. The petals are deep-red or scar- let with a dark eye, or when doubled varying in color. The long-headed poppy, P. dubium , has smaller flowers of a lighter red, the capsule elongated. The Oriental poppy, orientale , has a very large deep-red flower on a pe- duncle, and is the most showy species. IMG:content-0655.jpg:[merged small][graphic][subsumed] work, on a smaller scale than architectural orna- ment in stone; especially, such a finial at the top of the end of a bench or a pew. poppy-mallow (pop'i-mal"ō), n. Any plant of the genus Callirrhoë , of the mallow family: so named from the poppy-like flowers. Various spe- cies are beautiful in cultivation, among them C. involu- crata , the purple poppy-mallow, with stems spreading on the ground. poppy-oil (pop'i-oil), n. 1. A fixed oil expre ed from the seeds of the opium-poppy. The pure oil is of a golden-yellow color and an agreeable flavor. It serves as a food and an illuminating oil, and is used in soap-making. The finer qualities of that produced in France are used to adulterate olive-oil, very extensively in grinding artists' colors, and as a medium in painting. 2. A limpid light-yellow oil obtained, chiefly in India, from the seeds of the Mexican or prickly popру. It saponifies readily, burns well, is recommended for lubricating, and credited with medicinal properties.-3. An oil, little utilized, obtained from the seeds of the horned poppy. poppy-seed (pop'i-sed), n. The seed of the poppy, chiefly of the opium-poppy. - Poppy-seed oil. Same as poppy - oil . pops (pops), n. Same as pop - dock . [Prov. Eng.] pop-shop (pop's hop), n. A pawnbroker's shop. [Slang.] populace The populace hooted and shouted all day before the gates of the royal residence. Macaulay, Nugent's Hampden. = Syn. Populace, Mob, Rabble, crowd, ma es. Populace is used to represent the lower cla es, the body of those without wealth, education, or recognized position; it is, however, much le opprobrious than mob or rabble. Mob a very strong word for a tumultuous or even riotous as sembly, moved to or toward lawle ne by discontent or some similar exciting cause. Rabble is a contemptuous word for the very lowest cla es, considered as confused or without sufficient strength or unity of feeling to make them especially dangerous. That vast portion, lastly, of the working cla which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now i uing from its hiding place to a ert an English man's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching when it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace . M. Arnold , Culture and Anarchy, iii. A mob is at first an irregular, then a regular army; but in every stage of its progre the mere blind instrument of its leaders. Ames , Works, II. 228. Follow'd with a rabble that rejoice To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 32. populacył (pop'ū-lā-si), n. [ Piety. popular (pop'u-lär), a. [=D. populair = G. po pular, populär = Sw.populär = Dan.populær, popular voice; popular elections; popular gov Anti no us, by my shame observe What a close witchcraft popular applause is. Beau , and Fl ., Laws of Candy, v. 1. 2. Suitable to or intended for common people; easy to be comprehended; not technical or abstruse; plain; familiar: as, a popular treatise on astronomy. Homilies are plain and popular instructions. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. "Piers Ploughman" is the best example I know of what is called popular poetry - of compositions, that is, which contain all the simpler elements of poetry, but still in solution, not crystallized around any thread of artistic purpose. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 263. 3. Enjoying the favor of the people; pleasing to people in general: as, a popular preacher; a popular war or peace. In their sermons they were apt to enlarge on the state of the present time, and to preach against the sins of princes and courts, a topic that naturally makes men popular . Bp . Burnet . An author may make himself very popular , however, 4623 laritet, The best temper of minds desireth good name and true honour; the lighter, popularity and applause; the more depraved, subjection and tyranny. Popularities Bacon . 2t. That which catches public favor; anything suited to the vulgar fancy; a piece of claptrap. which sway the ordinary judgement. Bacon. 3t. A desire to obtain favor with the people; a currying of favor with the people. Harold, lifted up in mind, and forgetting now his former shows of popularity , defrauded his soldiers their due and well-deserved share of the spoils. Milton , Hist. Eng., vi. 41. Vulgarity; commonne . B. Jonson . This gallant, labouring to avoid popularity , falls into a former. habit of affectation ten you sand times hatefuler than the popularization (pop"ū-lär-i-zā'shon), n. F.popularisation ; popularize + -ation .] The act of making popular; adaptation to popular [= needs or capacities: as, the popularization of science. Also spelled popularisation. popularize (popu-lär-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. popularized, ppr. popularizing. [= F. popu lariser = Sp. popular izar = Pg. popular i sar; as popular + -ize.] re.] To make popular; treat in a popular man manner, or so as to be generally intel people. Also spelled popularise. ligible to common people; spread among the The popularizing of religious teaching. Milman . popularizer (pop'ū-lär-i-zèr), n. One who pop ularizes, or treats scientific or abstruse subjects in a popular manner. Also spelled populariser. Athenæum. popularly (pop'u-lär-li), adv. 1. In a popular manner; so as to please the populace. Why then should I, encouraging the bad, Turn rebel and run popularly mad? Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 336. 2. Among the people at large; currently; commonly; prevalently. popular ne (pop'ū-lär-nes), n. The state of being popular; popularity. Meretricious popular ne in literature. Cole ridge. populate (pop'ū-lāt), v .; pret. and pp. populated , ppr. populating . [ populatus , pp. of po pulare (> It. popolare ) , people, populate, populus , people: see people , n ., and cf. people , υ. ment, without having anything in him that shall outlast the public whim which he satisfies. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 117. 4t. Desirous of obtaining the favor of the peo- ple; courting the vulgar; of demagogic pro- clivities. IMG:content-0656.png:[blocks in formation] 7. Conceited. [Vulgar, U. S.] Popular : conceited. chicken." " Pop'lar as a hen with one Lowell , Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. Popular action, in law , an action for a penalty given by statute to the person who sues for the same. - Popular sovereignty, in U. S. hist ., the theory that the right to decide whether slavery should exist in a territory rested with the people of that territory, and not with Congre . It was advocated especially by Democrats during the period 1847-61, and its leading champion was Douglas. It was often termed "squatter sovereignty," with which it was nearly identical. Syn. 3. Favorite, current, prevailing. popularisation, popularise, etc. See popular i zati on, etc.