English

Adjective

Polony ‎(not comparable)

1. (obsolete or historical) Polish (especially of shoes).
   • 2001, John Pitcher, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, volume 14, page 37:

     In Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, M. Channing Linthicum cites two allusions to Polonian, Polonia, or Polony shoes, or to their high heels, in 1611, and two more in 1617 and 1618.

   • 2005, Beata Biedrońska-Słota, Crossroads of Costume and Textiles in Poland, page 40:

     Obviously Polony heels were made in Western Europe, though at present it is not clear why this name was given to the stacked heels.

   • 1930, A. V. Judges, The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads: Previously published 1930 and 1965, published 2013:

     Such a one is in Houndsditch with us, but it is a Polony shoe with a bell, that will not be left for ten pound, because he hath it by inheritance.

English

Noun

polony ‎(plural polonies)

1. A kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked.
   • 1873, Julia Kavanagh, Rachel Gray: A Tale Founded on Fact, page 42:

     There was a touch of quiet humour in Rachel, and with a demure smile, she internally wondered why it was precisely her polony that had been selected by puss, but aloud she merely declared that she could make an excellent supper on bread and beer.

   • 1978, Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, page 115:

     A survey of 25 polony samples of different brands available to the consumer in Bloemfontein showed that significant numbers of various micro-organisms were present.

   • 1984, (Please provide the title of the work), volume 39, number 4, page 35:

     Shlomo threw the polony and bread ceremoniously into the lorry and heaved himself up to see who it was who recognised him.

Etymology 2

Variant form.

Noun

polony ‎(plural polonies)

1. Alternative form of palone
   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann (1947), page 28:

     “What about that polony he was with?” ¶ “She doesn't matter”, the Boy said, “She's just a buer—he gave her a half. I saw him hand it out.”

   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann (1947), page 57:

     “I don't need a razor with a polony. If you don't know what it is, it's a bottle.”

Etymology 3

Blend of polymerase +‎ colony

Noun

polony

1. (biotechnology) A cluster of polymerases produced by clonal amplification of DNA.
   • 2008, Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, India, page 97:

     Fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) or beadbased polony sequencing FISSEQ involves localized amplification of single DNA molecules, using an acrylarnide gel, thus creating colonies of PCR product that are called polonies.

   • 2008, Michal Janitz, Next-Generation Genome Sequencing: Towards Personalized Medicine, page 58:

     The development of polony technology is an extreme example of spatial compression; a polony array essentially consists of millions of distinguishable, immobilized, and femtoliter-scale "test tubes" filled with clonal DNA arising from individual DNA or RNA molecules via a single polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

   • 2008, John Mendelsohn, The Molecular Basis of Cancer:

     This cycle is repeated several dozen times to generate DNA sequence information for each polony.

External links

• Polony sequencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• polony in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913