poplar-lutestring 
poplar-lutestring (pop'lar-lut'string), //. A 
British motli, CynuttopHora or. 
poplar-spinner (pop lar-spin'er), n. A geo- 
metrid moth, Jtiston itrsiiria, whose larva defo- 
liates poplars in the United States. 
poplar-tree (pop'liir-tre), . Same as poplar. 
poplet, " Squirrel-fur, t'airholt. 
popler't, >i. An obsolete form at poplar. 
popler'-'t, n. [ME.,n\iiOpoj>clcrc,abiril; glossed 
by ML. popvliig.'] A sea-gull, ffallitcell. (In 
the quotation, the name In parentheses Is that of the 
shuveler duck.] 
Popelert, bjrrd (or schovelerd, infra), Populiu. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 408. 
poples (pop'lez), H. ; pi. poplites (-li-tez). [L.] 
The ham, or back of the Knee ; the popliteal 
space. 
poplexyt, n. An aphetic form of apoplexy. 
Poplexie shente not hire heed. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 21. 
poplin (pop'lin), n. [= Sp.populina, popelens, 
< F. popeline, formerly papetine, poplin; origin 
obscure.] A fabric having a silk warp and a 
weft of wool heavier than the silk, which gives 
it a corded surface somewhat resembling that of 
rep. It may be watered, brocaded, or plain. 
Doable Poplin, poplin In which both the silk warp and 
wool weft are very heavy, the heavy wool weft making the 
corded appearance very prominent and the woven stuff 
much stftfer and heavier than single poplin. Irish pop- 
lin, a light variety of poplin, sometimes also called eiiujle 
poplin, made In Dublin, and celebrated for Its uniformly 
flue quality. Terry poplin, a very durable fabric in 
which, by throwing up to the surface alternate threads 
of the silk warp, an appearance somewhat resembling 
Terry velvet is obtained. 
poplitaeus, popliteus (pop-li-te'us). w.; pl.pop- 
liltei. poplitci (-5). [NL., < L. poples (poplit-), 
the ham of the knee, the hock.] A flat trian- 
gular muscle at the back of the knee-joint, cov- 
ered by the gastrocnemius. It arises from the outer 
side of the external femoral condyle, and is inserted into 
tile upper back port of the tibia. 
popliteal (pop-li-te'al), a. [< popliteeius + -al.] 
Of or pertaining to the ham, or back of the 
knee External popliteal nerve. Same nspemneal 
nertx (which see, under peroiual). Popliteal aneurism, 
aneurism of the popliteal artery. Popliteal artery, the 
continuation of the femoral artery in the popliteal space, 
after passing through the foramen In the adductor mast- 
nus. It divides, below the popliteal muscle, into the an- 
terior and posterior tibial arteries. Popliteal aspect, 
the posterior aspect of the leg. Popliteal bursse, bursa; 
beneath the heads of the gastrocnemius muscles, and 
sometimes others, in the popliteal space, often communi- 
cating with the knee-joint. Popliteal glands, four or 
five lymphatic glands surrounding the popliteal artery. 
Popliteal ligament, the posterior ligament of the 
knee-joint Popliteal line. See fine-'. Popliteal 
nerve, the larger division of the great sciatic, passing 
down the middle of the popliteal apace to the lower lior- 
der of the poplitcns muscle, where it becomes the poste- 
rior tibial. It gives on* muscular and articular branches 
and the extenial saphenoua nerve. Also called internal 
popliteal Hen*. Popl'teal notch, plane, etc. See the 
nouns. Popliteal region. Same as popliteal gpace. 
Popliteal space a lozenge-shaped space at the back of 
the knee, bounded above by the hamstring-muscles, below 
by the inner and outer heads of the gastrocnemius; the 
ham Also called popliteal internal. Popliteal surface, 
the surface of the femur between the supracondylar lines. 
Popliteal tendons, the tendons of the muscles form- 
Ing the iHMindaries of the popliteal space : the hamstrings. 
Popliteal vein, the vein accompanying the popliteal ar- 
tery, formed from the venw comltes of the tibial arteries, 
and continued as the femoral vein. 
poplites, n. Plural of poples. 
popliteus, . Sec poplitseus. 
poplitic (pop-lit'ik), a. [=OF.poplitiq>ie,n., 
< L. poples (poplit-), the ham of the knee.] Of 
or pertaining to the poples; popliteal. 
popper 1 (pop'er), w. [< popi + -eri.] 1. A 
utensil for popping corn; acorn-popper. It is 
made of wire gauze with a cover and a long 
wooden handle. [U. 8.] 2. Anything that 
pops or makes a popping sound, as a fire- 
cracker or pistol. 
And all round the glad church He old bottles 
With gunpowder stopped, 
Which will be, when the Image re-enters, 
Bellgiously popped. 
And at night from the crest of Calvano 
Great bonnrcx will hang. 
On the plain will the trumpets join chorus, 
And more puppm bang. 
Browning, Englishman in Italy. 
popper 2 * (pop'er), n. [ME., < (t) pop*, strike, 
+ -eri.] A dagger. 
A Joljr popperi baar he in his pouchc. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 11. 
poppet (pop'et), n. [A var. of puppet.~\ If. A 
puppet. London Gazette. Feb. 15, 1705. 2. A 
term of endearment. See pupjtet. 3. A shore 
or piece of timber placeil between a M-S--. 1 > 
liottom and the bilgeways, at the foremost and 
aftermost parts, to support her in launching. 
See cut under launcMmj-wnyn. 4. <>in' nf the 
4622 
heads of a lathe. Also poptt. 8ee cut under 
lathe-head. 6. A puppet-valve. 6. Small bits 
of wood upon a boat s gunwale, to support the 
rowlocks and washstrake. 
poppet-head (pop'et-hed), n. 1. The adjust- 
able head of a lathe which supports the back 
or dead-center. 2. In mining, the pulley-frame 
or head-gear over a shaft, supporting the pul- 
leys over which the ropes used in winding 
or hoisting pass. Also called pulley-frit me, 
shaft-tackle, head-gear, head-stocks, and pit-head 
frame. 
poppet-valve (pop'et-valv), n. Same as puppet- 
vali-e. 
poppied (pop'id), a. [(poppy + -ed 2 .] 1. Pro- 
ducing or covered or grown over with poppies; 
mingled with poppies : as, poppied fields; "pop- 
pied corn," Keats, Endymion, i. 2. Resulting 
from or produced by the use of poppy-juice or 
opium; listless. 
The end of all the poppied sleep. Swinburne, llieeL 
poppingt, . [ME. poppinge. poppy iigc ; verbal 
n. of pop?, r. : see pop 2 .'] The act of smearing 
the face with white lead (ceruse). 
The aungelle salde It was but lit ell < meruaile though this 
lady, for her popping and peintynge, sulfre this payne. 
Kniijht of La Tour Landry (E. E. T. 8.), p. 68. 
popping-crease (pop'iug-kres), . In cricket. 
See crease 1 , 2. 
popple 1 (pop'l), t 1 . i. ; pret. and pp. poppled, ppr. 
poppling. [Dim. and freq. of popl.J If. To 
now ; rush ; foam ; bubble. 
And on the stany's ovrt thar harnys [he] dang, 
Quhil brayn and eyn and blude al poplit owt 
Gavin Dmglat, tr. of Virgil, I. 167. 
His brains came pnppling out like water. 
Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque, p. 22ti. (Daviet.) 
2. To bob or move up and down: said of a float- 
ing object. 
popple' (pop'l), n. [< popple^, r.] A ripple. 
popple 2 (pop'l), 11. [< ME. popttl-(tre) = MLG. 
poppele, popjicleone, popplioue, LG. popple, 
poppelo = MHO. popel, papel, G. poppel, pap- 
pii = Sw. Dan. poppel = OF. "pople, peuple, 
l><i]ilf, poublr, pible = Sp. pobo, cnopo = Pg. 
rhoupo, cliopo = It. pioppo, pioppa, < L. popu- 
lii.t, a poplar ; perhaps for "paljmlus, < -y/ palp in 
mtlpitare, tremble.] Same as poplar. [Prov. 
Eng. and U. S.] 
popple'* (pop'l), ii. The corn-cockle, Lychnis 
(Hfluigo. [Prov. Eng.] 
poppy (pop i), H. ; pi. poppies (-iz). [< ME. 
popy, < AS. pnpig, papiij = F. ptwot. Norm. 
papi = Pr. purer, paparer Sp. ubabol, corn- 
populace 
2. One of several plants belonging to other 
genera of the I'tipareracrte. 3. The foxglove. 
4. In arch., same as poppy-head. Black pop- 
py. Sec def. 1. California poppy. See Kuchnchouaa. 
Corn-poppy. See def. 1. Reid-poppy. Same as 
corn-poppy. Garden poppy, specifically, the opium. 
PC ippy.- Horn-poppy, or horned poppy, a small sea- 
side plant of the poppy family, tjlaueium luteum, with 
clasping leaves and solitary yellow flower*: so named 
from the long curved horn like seed-pods. Also neo- 
poppy. Long-headed poppy. See def. 1. Mexican 
poppy. See pridrly poppy. - Oriental poppy. See 
def. i. Poppy trash, see trafh. Prickly poppy, 
Aryemont Mexicana, the Mexican poppy, now widely dif- 
fused, often a weed. The pods and leaves are prickly, 
the latter blotched with white; the flowers are yellow, a 
variety being white. Its seeds are regarded as cathartic 
and yield a useful oil. See poppy-oil. ~ Red poppy. See 
def. 1. Sea-poppy, or seaside poppy. Same as horn- 
poppti. Spatltng or frothy poppy, an old name of Si- 
lene tn/tofa .- so called on account of the spittle-like froth 
produced upon it by the puncture of an insect. Tree- 
poppy, LtftutroinecoH rvjulum, of California, remarkable 
as a shrub in the almost wholly herbaceous order Papa- 
vcracex, 8 or 8 feet high, with bright-yellow flowers from 
1 to s inches broad. Welsh poppy. See Heconoptu. 
White poppy. See def. L 
poppy-bee (pop'i-be), n. An upholsterer-bee, 
Aiituocopa papaveris, which furnishes its nest 
with the petals of poppies. See cut under up- 
iiolsterer-oee. 
poppycock (pop'i-kok), n. [Appar. < popi in 
dim. form, + cock 1 , in vague addition of con- 
tempt.] Trivial talk ; nonsense ; stuff and rub- 
bish. [U. S. vulgarism.] 
poppy-head (pop'i-hed), n. A carved finial in 
decorative woodwork and other ornamental 
poppy, amapola, poppy, corn-poppy, = Pg. /<- 
poulu =: It. paparero, < L. jmpaver, poppy. The 
(ir. word was p/nuv; cf. meeoiiium. The L. pa- 
pnrcr suffered considerable change in passing 
into vernacular use in later languages. With 
poppH in the architectural sense, cf. F. poupce 
in same sense (whence E. /wop?), appar. an ex- 
tended use of poiipt-e, the. bunch of flax on a 
distaff, hence a distaff, also a crown-graft, par- 
ticular uses ofpiiupi'e. a doll, rag-baby: see pup- 
pct.~] 1. A plant of the genus I'li/mecr. The pop- 
pies are showy herbs, 
in the New World 
cultivated chiefly In 
gardens, and wild or 
cultivated In the Old. 
The opium-poppy, 
P. mmn\fervm, is of 
importance as the 
source of opium and 
as yielding, In its 
seeds, u valuable oil. 
(See poppy-oil and 
Hiatc-itted.) Its cap- 
sules alford also a 
syrup or extract used 
as a sedative, and in 
hot decoction serve 
as an anodyne appli- 
cation. The opium- 
poppy is a glaucous 
plant, with wary 
clasping leaves. The 
petals and seeds vary 
In color. The varie- 
ty chiefly cultivated 
in India and Persia 
has white petals and 
white seeds, that In 
Alia Minor purple 
petals and dark seeds; they are called respectively white 
and Hack popny. The common red poppy, corn-poppy, or 
corn-rose Is P. llhceat, abounding In central and onuthern 
Europe and western Asia. The petals are deep-red or scar- 
let with a dark eye, or when doubled varying In color. The 
loutr-turaded poppy, /'. dubium, has smaller flowers of a 
Hunter red, the capsule elongated The Oriental poppy, 
/'. iirifiitale, has a very large deep-red flower on a tall pe- 
duncle, and in the most showy s]>ecles. 
N'owepop*/ scede In gruunde Is goode to throwe. 
PaUatliia, Huabomlrie (K. E. T. >.), p. 81. 
Poppy {Papavtr smnt/trttm). 
a, the upper pan of the stem with the 
(lower; *, the lower part of the plant; r. 
Poppy-head. Choir-stalls of Lincoln Cathedral, England. 
work, on a smnller scale than architectural orna- 
ment in stone; especially, such a finial at the 
top of the end of a bench or a pew. 
poppy-mallow (pop'i-mal'6), . Any plant of 
the genus 1'allirrlnie, of the mallow family: so 
named from the poppy -like flowers. Various spe- 
cies arc beautiful In cultivation, among them C. im-'lii- 
crata, the puiple poppy-mallow, with stems spreading on 
the ground. 
poppy-oil (pop'i-oil),n. 1. A fixed oil expressed 
from the seeds of the opium-poppy. The pure oil 
is of a golden-yellow color and nn agreeable flavor. It 
serves as a food and an Illuminating oil, and is used In 
soap-inukin^. The finer qualities of that produced In 
France are used to adulterate olive-oil, very extensively 
In grinding artists' colors, and as a medium In painting. 
2. A limpid light-yellow oil obtained, chiefly in 
India, from the seeds of the Mexican or prickly 
poppy. It saponifies readily, burns well, is 
recommended for lubricating, and credited with 
medicinal properties. 3. An oil, little utilized, 
obtained from the seeds of the horned poppy. 
poppy-seed (pop'i-sed), n. The seed: of the 
poppy, chiefly of the opium-poppy Poppy-seed 
OIL Same as poppy-otf. 
pops f pops), n. Same as pop-dock. [Prov. Eng.] 
pop-shop (pop'shop), w. A pawnbroker's shop. 
[Slang.] 
populace (pop'u-las), . [< F. populace, OF. 
/iHjitilas = Sp. poiiulacho, populazo = Pg. pii/ni- 
'"V"i i>"piiliieho, < It. popolaeein, i>oj>ola::o, the 
common people, the populace, with a deprecia- 
tive suffix -<rio (see -ace), < popolo, people, < 
L. populus, people : see people."} The common 
people; the vulgar: the multitude, compre- 
hending nil persons not dilttogviahM by rank, 
ediu-ution, office, or profession. 
