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111poor's-roll — poor sˈ roll noun (Scots law; obsolete) The list of poor litigants allowed to sue in formā pauperis • • • Main Entry: ↑poor …
112poor|ish — «PUR ihsh», adjective. somewhat poor; of rather poor quality …
113Poor-willie — Poor wil lie, n. [So called in imitation of its note.] (Zo[ o]l.) The bar tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] …
114Poor Man's Orange — is a novel (ISBN 0 312 00054 5) by New Zealand born Australian author Ruth Park. Published in 1949, the book is the sequel to The Harp in the South and continues the story of the Darcy family, living in the Surry Hills area of… …
115Poor Poll — is a poem written by Robert Bridges in 1921, and first collected in his book New Verse (1925). The poem is the first example of Bridges Neo Miltonic Syllabics. Poor Poll was composed at the same time as T. S. Eliot was writing The Waste… …
116Poor man's — is a common slang term used to compare one thing with another. It is not necessarily a derogatory term. It is usually used in a sentence as X is a poor man s Y , with X being the person or thing one is referring to, and Y being the superior but… …
117Poor Jack — is a novel by the English author Frederick Marryat, published in 1840. It tells the story of Thomas Saunders, a sailor s son and neglected street urchin struggling to survive in Greenwich, London in the early 19th century. ( Poor Jack was the… …
118Poor Jorick! молвил он уныло, Он на руках меня держал — Poor Jorick! молвилъ онъ уныло, Онъ на рукахъ меня держалъ. А. С. Пушкинъ. Евг. Онѣг. 2, 37. Ленскій у могилы Ларина. Ср. Alas, poor Yorick! (Восклицаніе Гамлета надъ черепомъ шута.) Shakesp. Hamlet. 5, 1. Hamlet. Ср. Sterne. Tristam Shandy. 2,… …
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119Poor law — (engl., spr. pūr lao, »Armengesetz«), in England die gesetzlichen Bestimmungen über öffentliches Armenwesen. Hauptorgan der Armenpflege sind die Unions (Bezirke), die in der Regel aus mehreren Parishs (Kirchspielen) zusammengesetzt sind, aber… …
120poor-spirited — /poor spir i tid/, adj. having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit. [1655 65] * * * …
