Definition of "polony"
polony1
noun
plural polonies
A kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked.
Quotations
A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
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.
1873, Julia Kavanagh, Rachel Gray: A Tale Founded on Fact, page 42
polony2
noun
plural polonies
Quotations
polony3
noun
(biotechnology) A cluster of polymers produced by clonal amplification of DNA.
Quotations
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, Michal Janitz, Next-Generation Genome Sequencing: Towards Personalized Medicine, page 58