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.

To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.

One who, or that which, planishes.

a. vb. n. from Planish, v. t.

The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.

The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.

The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters.

Having no plan.

One who plans; a projector.

Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave.

Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens.

Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other.

Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.

Having a level horizontal surface or position.

Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.

Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.

Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.

One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoogametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green alg/ (Chlorophyce/).

An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface.

The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.

Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.

To perform the act of planting.

A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.

Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.

Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the Plantago major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.

Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.

Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.

Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.

One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

A young plant, or plant in embryo.

A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.

A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears.

The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.

Without plants; barren of vegetation.

A little plant.

Government by planters; planters, collectively.

The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.

In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.

An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.

Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

A small plaque, esp., in modern medal engraving, a small and delicate bas-relief, whether cast or struck from a die, or of form other than circular.

The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

A small pond or pool; a puddle.

The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.

A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed.

Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.

A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.

A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.

Forming; shaping; molding.

The act of forming or molding.

A former; a fashioner.

Form; mold.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, plasma; plasmatic.

A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations of daughter cells. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased resistance to disease.