Vocabulary : Polliwog to Polly

Polliwog : A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.
Pollock : A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.
Pollucite : A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and caesia. Called also pollux.
Pollute : To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement. ;; To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor. ;; To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. ;; Polluted.
Polluted : of Pollute ;; Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.

Polluter : One who pollutes.
Polluting : of Pollute ;; Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution.
Pollution : The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity. ;; The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse.
Pollux : A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini. Cf. 3d Castor. ;; Same as Pollucite.
Polly : A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot.

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