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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POL'LOCK
POLLU'TE, v.t. [L. polluo; polluceo and possideo.]
1. To defile; to make foul or unclean; in a general sense. But appropriately, among the Jews, to make unclean or impure, in a legal or ceremonial sense, so as to disqualify a person for sacred services, or to render things unfit for sacred uses. Numbers 18. Exodus 20. 2 Kings 23. 2 Chronicles 36.
2. To taint with guilt.
Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols. Ezek 20.
3. To profane; to use for carnal or idolatrous purposes.
My sabbaths they greatly polluted. Ezek 20.
4. To corrupt or impair by mixture of ill, moral or physical.
Envy you my praise, and would destroy
With grief my pleasures, and pollute my joy?
5. To violate by illegal sexual commerce.
POLLU'TE, a. Polluted; defiled.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956) [syn: Pollock, Jackson Pollock]
2: lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish [syn: pollack, pollock]
3: important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod [syn: pollack, pollock, Pollachius pollachius]

Merriam Webster's

I. biographical name Sir Frederick 1845-1937 English jurist II. biographical name (Paul) Jackson 1912-1956 American painter

Merriam Webster's

noun see pollack

Britannica Concise

U.S. painter. Born in Cody, Wyo., he grew up in California and Arizona. In the early 1930s he studied in New York under T. H. Benton, and later he was employed on the WPA Federal Art Project. In 1947, after several years of semiabstract work stimulated by psychotherapy, Pollock began to lay his canvas on the floor and pour or drip paint onto it in stages, a style exemplified by Number Ten, 1949, the black-and-white Number Thirty-two, 1950, and the mural-size Lavender Mist (1950). Though the novelty of his "drip" technique tended to overshadow the personal expression that the technique permitted him, he was recognized in his lifetime as a leading practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, particularly the form known as action painting. Championed by C. Greenberg and others, he became a celebrity. Separated from his wife, the artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984), he died in a car crash at 44.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

var. of POLLACK.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pollock Pol"lock, n. [See Pollack.] (Zo["o]l.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.