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Rolly poly
A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit rolled into a cylindrical form and boiled or steamed...
Poly
A combining form or prefix from Gr polys many as polygon a figure of many angles polyatomic having many atoms polychord polyconic...
Poly mountain
Same as Poly n...
marco polo sheep
An Asiatic wild sheep Ovis poli with exceptionally large horns sometimes considered a variety of the argali Ovis ammon poli...
Rolly pooly
A game in which a ball rolling into a certain place wins...
Rouly pouly
See Rolly pooly...
polygraph
polygraph : an instrument that records physiological pulsations ;esp : lie detector poly·graph·ic [pÄ -lē-gra-fik] adj ...
Poley
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Constable
Constable [fr. Comes stabuli, Lat., in the eastern empire a superintendent of the imperial stables, or the emperor's master of the horse, who at length obtained the command of the army], an officer to whom our law commits the duty of maintaining the peace, and bringing to justice those by whom it is infringed.Provision is made for the abolition of the office of High Constable by the (English) High Constables Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 67), and of that of Parish Constable by the Parish Constables Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 92), which Act, however, still allows of their appointment in exceptional cases.By the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 191, in all boroughs to which that Act applies, 'borough constables' are appointed by the Watch Committee, but the (English) Local Government Act,1888, has, in the case of boroughs having a population of less than 10,000 transferred the appointments to the county councils.In counties constables were appointed by the justices of the pe...
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