These are the meanings of the letters BULLPOLL when you unscramble them.
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Boll (n.)
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
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Boll (n.)
The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
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Boll (v. i.)
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
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Bull (a.)
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
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Bull (n.)
A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
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Bull (n.)
One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
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Bull (n.)
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
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Bull (n.)
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
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Bull (n.)
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
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Bull (v. i.)
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
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Bull (v. i.)
A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated \"a die Incarnationis,\" i. e., \"from the day of the Incarnation.\" See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
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Bull (v. i.)
A seal. See Bulla.
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Bull (v. i.)
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
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Bull (v. t.)
To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
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Loll (v. i.)
To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
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Loll (v. i.)
To hand extended from the mouth, as the tongue of an ox or a log when heated with labor or exertion.
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Loll (v. i.)
To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow.
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Loll (v. t.)
To let hang from the mouth, as the tongue.
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Loup (n.)
See 1st Loop.
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Lull (n.)
A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.
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Lull (n.)
The power or quality of soothing; that which soothes; a lullaby.
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Lull (v. i.)
To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls.
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Lull (v. t.)
To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.
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Poll (n.)
A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
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Poll (n.)
A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
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Poll (n.)
One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
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Poll (n.)
Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
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Poll (n.)
The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
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Poll (n.)
The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
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Poll (n.)
The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
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Poll (n.)
The head; the back part of the head.
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Poll (n.)
The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
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Poll (v. i.)
To vote at an election.
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Poll (v. t.)
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.
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Poll (v. t.)
To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll.
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Poll (v. t.)
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
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Poll (v. t.)
To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
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Poll (v. t.)
To impose a tax upon.
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Poll (v. t.)
To pay as one's personal tax.
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Poll (v. t.)
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.
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Poll (v. t.)
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.
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Pull (n.)
A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
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Pull (n.)
A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
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Pull (n.)
A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
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Pull (n.)
A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
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Pull (n.)
Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
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Pull (n.)
The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
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Pull (n.)
The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
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Pull (n.)
The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
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Pull (v. i.)
To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
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Pull (v. t.)
To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
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Pull (v. t.)
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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Pull (v. t.)
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
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Pull (v. t.)
To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
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Pull (v. t.)
To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
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Pull (v. t.)
To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
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Pull (v. t.)
To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.