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   Poll , n. [From Polly, The proper name.] A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
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   Poll, n. [Gr.  the many, the rabble.] One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [Cambridge Univ., Eng.]
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   Poll , 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.]
   The head; the back part of the head. “All flaxen was his poll.”  
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   A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
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   We are the greater poll, and in true fear
   They gave us our demands.
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   The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll.
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   Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
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   The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
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   All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended.
   Blackstone.
   
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   pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
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   The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
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   (Zool.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
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   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.
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   Poll, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Polling.]
   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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   When he [Absalom] pollled his head.
   2 Sam. xiv. 26.
   
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   His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.
   Sir T. North.
   
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   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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   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.
   
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   To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.]
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   Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.
   Spenser.
   
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   To impose a tax upon. [Obs.]
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   To pay as one's personal tax.
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   The man that polled but twelve pence for his head.
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   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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   Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms.
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   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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   And poll for points of faith his trusty vote.
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   (Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee poll.
   Burrill.
   
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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.
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   Poll, v. i. To vote at an election.
   Beaconsfield.
   
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