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Situated below the poles.
v. t.
To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, to Russianize the Poles.
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In promorphology, pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. See Promorphology.
n.
One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc.
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A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.
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A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth.
v. i.
To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
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A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
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The polestar; the north star.
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Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and the Poles.
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A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
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A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.
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A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
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An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee.
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An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
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One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
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An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.
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A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
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A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
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A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
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