These are the meanings of the letters PROLLY when you unscramble them.
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Lory (n.)
Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidae, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.
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Ploy (n.)
Sport; frolic.
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Ploy (v. i.)
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
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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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Poly (n.)
A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus.
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Pyro (n.)
Abbreviation of pyrogallic acid.
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Roll (n.)
To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
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Roll (n.)
To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
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Roll (n.)
To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
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Roll (n.)
To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
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Roll (n.)
To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
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Roll (n.)
To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
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Roll (n.)
To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
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Roll (n.)
To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
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Roll (n.)
To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
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Roll (n.)
To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
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Roll (v.)
A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
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Roll (v.)
A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
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Roll (v.)
A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
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Roll (v.)
A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
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Roll (v.)
A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
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Roll (v.)
A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
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Roll (v.)
Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
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Roll (v.)
One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
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Roll (v.)
Part; office; duty; role.
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Roll (v.)
That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
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Roll (v.)
That which rolls; a roller.
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Roll (v.)
The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
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Roll (v.)
The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
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Roll (v.)
The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
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Roll (v. i.)
To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
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Roll (v. i.)
To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
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Roll (v. i.)
To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
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Roll (v. i.)
To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
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Roll (v. i.)
To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
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Roll (v. i.)
To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
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Roll (v. i.)
To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
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Roll (v. i.)
To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
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Roll (v. i.)
To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
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Roll (v. i.)
To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
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Roll (v. i.)
To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
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Roll (v. i.)
To turn; to move circularly.
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Ropy (a.)
capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.