These are the meanings of the letters LURPOL when you unscramble them.
- Loup (n.)
See 1st Loop.
- Lour (n.)
An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
- Poll (n.)
A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals.
- Poll (n.)
A parrot; -- familiarly so called.
- Poll (n.)
One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman.
- Poll (n.)
Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election.
- Poll (n.)
The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax.
- Poll (n.)
The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll.
- Poll (n.)
The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a).
- Poll (n.)
The head; the back part of the head.
- Poll (n.)
The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls.
- Poll (v. i.)
To vote at an election.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Poll (v. t.)
To extort from; to plunder; to strip.
- Poll (v. t.)
To impose a tax upon.
- Poll (v. t.)
To pay as one's personal tax.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pour (a.)
Poor.
- Pour (n.)
A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.
- Pour (v. i.)
To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.
- Pour (v. i.)
To pore.
- Pour (v. t.)
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.
- Pour (v. t.)
To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
- Pour (v. t.)
To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
- Pull (n.)
A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
- Pull (n.)
A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
- Pull (n.)
A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
- Pull (n.)
A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
- 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.
- Pull (n.)
The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
- Pull (n.)
The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
- Pull (n.)
The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
- 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.
- Pull (v. t.)
To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- Pull (v. t.)
To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
- 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.
- Pull (v. t.)
To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
- Pull (v. t.)
To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
- Pull (v. t.)
To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
- Pull (v. t.)
To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
- Purl (n.)
A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- Purl (n.)
A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.
- Purl (n.)
A tern.
- Purl (n.)
An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- Purl (n.)
An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
- Purl (n.)
Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
- Purl (v. & n.)
To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- Purl (v. i.)
To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.
- Purl (v. t.)
To decorate with fringe or embroidery.
- 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.
- Roll (n.)
To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- Roll (n.)
To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
- 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.
- Roll (n.)
To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
- Roll (n.)
To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- 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.
- Roll (n.)
To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- 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.
- 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.
- Roll (v.)
A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- Roll (v.)
A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- Roll (v.)
A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
- Roll (v.)
A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
- Roll (v.)
A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
- Roll (v.)
A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
- Roll (v.)
Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
- 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.
- Roll (v.)
Part; office; duty; role.
- Roll (v.)
That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
- Roll (v.)
That which rolls; a roller.
- Roll (v.)
The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
- 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.
- Roll (v.)
The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- Roll (v. i.)
To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
- Roll (v. i.)
To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
- Roll (v. i.)
To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
- 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.
- Roll (v. i.)
To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
- Roll (v. i.)
To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
- 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.
- Roll (v. i.)
To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- Roll (v. i.)
To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
- Roll (v. i.)
To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
- Roll (v. i.)
To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
- Roll (v. i.)
To turn; to move circularly.
- Roup (n.)
A disease in poultry. See Pip.
- Roup (n.)
An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.
- Roup (v. i. & t.)
To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.