ust, punch, jog, dig; dawdler, bore.

poke, v. stir up, excite; punch, thrust; gore, hook; grope.

poke fun at. (Colloq.) ridicule, deride.

poker-painting, n. pyrography, xylopyrography.

poky, a. (Colloq.) slow, dull, tiresome, tedious, prosaic.

polar lights. aurora borealis (northern); aurora australis
(southern);

Pole, n. Polander, Polack.

pole, n. shaft, thill (of a vehicle); rod, perch; bergstock,
alpenstock; poy (rope-dancer's pole); 5 1/2 yards, 30 1/4 square yards;
jalons; quant.

polestar, n. north star, polar star, Polaris, loadstar, Cynosure.

polish, v. burnish, furbish.

polish, n. gloss, luster, sheen, glaze, glazing; courtliness,
refinement.

polished, a. burnished, glistening, bright; courtly, elegant refined.

polite, a. courtly, civil, courteous, suave, urbane, deferential
debonair, mannerly. Antonyms: See impolite.

politeness, n. courtliness, courtesy, civility, suavity, urbanity,
deference, amenity, comity.

politic, a. political; judicious, discreet, shrewd, astute;
diplomatic, strategic, artful.

politician, n. statesman, statist; demagogue (unprincipled and
factious).

polliwog, n. tadpole, purwiggy.

poll tax. capitation.

pollute, v. defile, contaminate, corrupt, infect, debase, vitiate,
desecrate, befoul.

pollution, n. defilement, contamination, corruption, infection
debasement, vitiation.

poltroon, n. coward, craven, dastard.

pommel, v. beat, pound, maul, belabor, cudgel, thwack, club.

pomp, n. pageantry, parade, pageant.

pompous, a. stately, imposing, august; pretentious, grandiose See
bombastic.

pond, n. lake (small); lagoon.

ponder, v. meditate, reflect, ruminate, think, muse.

ponderous, a. massive, heavy, cumbersome; dull, spiritless momentous,
important.

pooh-pooh, v. (Colloq.) deride.

poor, a. indigent, impecunious, needy, poverty -stricken,
straitened, necessitous, penniless, eleemosynary; emaciated, skinny, lean,
spare, meager, bony, gaunt, thin, haggard, scrawny, angular, peaked,
rawboned, pinched; inferior, mean, shabby, seedy, tacky, worthless;
barren, sterile, effete infecund, inarable, exhausted, infertile;
miserable, wretched, faulty, defective; despicable, contemptible, abject,
sordid, sorry; unfavorable, inauspicious, unpropitious.

poorhouse, n. almshouse, infirmary.

pope, n. bishop of Rome, pontiff, _Pontifex Maximus_. Associated
words: papal, papacy, paparchy, popish, see, popedom, popery, ablegate,
nuncio, legate, V