Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POL-LU'TION, n. [L. pollutio; Fr. pollution; Sp. polucion, It. polluzione.]

1. The act of polluting.
2. Defilement; uncleanness; impurity; the state of being polluted.
3. In the Jewish economy, legal or ceremonial uncleanness, which disqualified a person for sacred services or for common intercourse with the people, or rendered any thing unfit for sacred use.
4. In medicine, the emission of semen in sleep.
5. In a religious sense, guilt, the effect of sin; idolatry, &c.