Word Meanings - GONDOLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.

• Polypite
  One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.
• Factitive
  Causing; causative.
• Sternly
  In a stern manner.
• Politics
  The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conqu
• Polygala
  A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.
• Blackberry
  The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.
• Polypteroidei
  A suborder of existing ganoid fishes having numerous fins along the back. The bichir, or Polypterus, is the type. See Illust. under Crossopterygian.
• Factotum
  A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
• Sternutative
  Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
• Pollarding
  of Pollard
• Polygenism
  The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.
• Blackfeet
  A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
• Polystyle
  Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall.
• Narrowing
  of Narrow
• BLACKFRIAR
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• Pollinctor
  One who prepared corpses for the funeral.
• Polygraphic
  Alt. of Polygraphical
• Black lead
  Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• Polytechnics
  The science of the mechanic arts.
• Polack
  A Polander.

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