n. [ Akin to LG. polle the head, the crest of a bird, the top of a tree, OD. pol, polle, Dan. puld the crown of a hat. ] 1. The head; the back part of the head. “All flaxen was his poll.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are the greater poll, and in true fear
They gave us our demands. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. [ 1913 Webster ]

All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Zool.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

Poll book, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election. --
Poll evil (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. --
Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. --
Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Polly, The proper name. ] A parrot; -- familiarly so called. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Polled p. pr. & vb. n. Polling. ] 1. To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he [ Absalom ] pollled his head. 2 Sam. xiv. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed
That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To impose a tax upon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To pay as one's personal tax. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. [ 1913 Webster ]

Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent. [ 1913 Webster ]

And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee&unr_; poll. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

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To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To vote at an election. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the many, the rabble. ] One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [ Cambridge Univ., Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish. ] (Zool.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A head or poll tax; hence, extortion. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gael. pollag a kind of fish. ] (Zool.) A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Poll the head. ] 1. A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. Pennant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) A fish, the chub. (b) A stag that has cast its antlers. (c) A hornless animal (cow or sheep). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pollarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Pollarding. ] To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]