A diminutive of the female given name Mary.
A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
A formal vote held in order to ascertain the most popular choice.
(usually as plural, polling places) A polling place
The result of the voting, the total number of votes recorded.
(now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.
The broad or butt end of an axe or a hammer.
The pollard or European chub, a kind of fish.
A pet parrot.
(transitive) To take, record the votes of (an electorate).
(transitive) To solicit mock votes from (a person or group).
(intransitive) To vote at an election.
To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters.
To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop.
(transitive) To cut the hair of (a creature).
(transitive) To remove the horns of (an animal).
To remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop.
(transitive, computing, communication) To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
(intransitive, with adverb) To be judged in a poll.
To impose a tax upon.
To pay as one's personal tax.
To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, especially for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one.
(law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation
(of kinds of livestock which typically have horns) Bred without horns, and thus hornless.