a reaction by a patient who receives a placebo{2}, in which the symptoms of illness are lessened or an anticipated effect is experienced. Because the placebo{2} itself has no pharmacological activity, this reaction is mediated by the expectations of the patient receiving the placebo{2}; the reaction is considered as an example of the power of suggestion.

In the appointed place.

Having no place or office.

One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.

The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

One of the Placentalia.

A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.

Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.

The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.

Having or producing a placenta.

Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.

Pleasing; amiable.

A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.

A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.

Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.

The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity.

In a placid manner.

The quality or state of being placid.

A decree or determination; a dictum.

Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law.

A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.

A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.

A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.

One of the Placodermi.

Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.

Same as Placodermi.

An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.

Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.

A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.

Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks. One of the Placoides.

A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.

One of the placoids.

A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.

A stripe of color.

Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.

Having plag/, or irregular enlongated color spots.

A region; country.

Same as plagiarize.

The act or practice of plagiarizing.

One who plagiarizes, or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.

To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Kidnaping.

Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.

Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar.

A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.

Same as Plagiostomous.

One of the Plagiostomi.

An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; -- called also Plagiostomata.

Of or pertaining to the Plagiostomi.

Same as Lepidosauria.

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Manstealing; kidnaping.

Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master.

To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind.

Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.

Free from plagues or the plague.

One who plagues or annoys.

In a plaguing manner; vexatiously; extremely.

A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species.

Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin.

Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.

Plaid cloth.

To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.

Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing.

Frank; sincere; artless.

Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.

Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words.

One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.

Complaining.

In a plain manner; clearly.

The quality or state of being plain.

A bird of the genus Pedionomus (Pedionomus torquatus) of New South Wales, the only species in the genus. Pedionomus is the only genus of the family Pedionomidae of the order Passeriformes and the plains wanderer is thus the only species in the family. The total world population (ca. 2000) is estimated to be 5 to 10 thousand.

One who lives in the plains.

Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

See Plaintive.

Repining; complaining; lamenting.

Without complaint; unrepining.

See Pleasance.

See Plaice.

See Plaster.

To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.

Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful.

One who, or that which, plaits.

To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.

One of the Planarida, or Dendroc/la; any turbellarian worm.

A division of Turbellaria; the Dendroc/la.

Like the planarians.

Of or pertaining to a plane.

To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.

To form of planks.

A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.

The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.

Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.

See under Plane, a.

Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.

One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.

Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.

An orrery. See Orrery.

Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.

Belonging to planets.

Of or pertaining to planets.

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

Pertaining to a planetoid.

A little planet.

The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.

Beating; dashing, as a wave.

Flat-leaved.

Having a plane surface; as, a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation.

An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.

Of or pertaining to planimetry.

The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.

a. vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t.

Of or pertaining to Planipennia.

A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also Planipennes.