A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate.

A playfellow.

Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer.

Play of children.

One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances.

Frequenting playhouses; as, the playgoing public. The practice of going to plays.

A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

A building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater.

a. vb. n. of Play.

A playwright.

A companion in diversions; a playfellow.

Playful; wanton; sportive.

See Pleyt.

A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.

Time for play or diversion.

A maker or adapter of plays.

A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright.

A public square in a city or town.

That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.

To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.

To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury.

Capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law.

One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.

The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.

In a pleading manner.

The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point.

Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.

A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.

Of pleasing speech.

In a pleasant manner.

The state or quality of being pleasant.

That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage.

To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.

Experiencing pleasure.

An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.

One who pleases or gratifies.

An object of pleasure.

Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry.

To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring.

Affording pleasure.

Devoid of pleasure.

A pleasure seeker.

A person devoted to worldly pleasure.

See Plait.

The common people; the mob.

One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.

Plebeianism.

The quality or state of being plebeian.

To render plebeian, common, or vulgar.

One who flatters, or courts the favor of, the common people; a demagogue.

A rendering plebeian; the act of vulgarizing.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791.

A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.

The commonalty of ancient Rome who were citizens without the usual political rights; the plebeians; -- distinguished from the patricians.

Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.

Woven; plaited.

Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi. One of the Plectognathi.

An order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.

An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebr/ united and much modified; the Eventognathi.

A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.

imp. p. p. of Plead

To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.

The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.

Having no pledge.

One who pledges.

A pledging; suretyship.

A small plug.

One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to pledgee.

Same as Infusoria.

One of the Pleiades.

The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

Full; complete.

See Pliocene.

Having several leaves; -- used especially when several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only one.

Same as Pliosaurus.

Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man. The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.

Full; complete; as, a plenal view or act.

In a plenary manner.

Quality or state of being plenary.

The state of a benefice when occupied.

Decisive procedure.

Full; complete; plenary.

A ruminant having solid horns or antlers, as the deer.

Of or pertaining to the full moon.

The full moon.

The quality or state of being plenipotent.

Possessing full power.

Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers.

To replenish.

Household furniture; stock.

One who holds that all space is full of matter.

The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power.

A plenist.

Having plenitude; full; complete; thorough.

Containing plenty; abundant; copious; plentiful; sufficient for every purpose; as, a plenteous supply.

Plenteous.

Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.

Plentiful; abundant.

That state in which every part of space is supposed to be full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum.

Having the property of pleochroism.

The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.

Pleochroic.

Pleochroism.

Pleochroic.

Pertaining to pleomorphism; as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria.

The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism.

Having the property of pleomorphism.

Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.

One who is addicted to pleonasm.

A black variety of spinel.

Of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant.

In a pleonastic manner.

One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust. under Crustacea.

The central column of parenchyma in a growing stem or root.

Fullness; full persuasion.

Pleasance.

A pool; a plash.

The property possessed by some substances of crystallizing in closely similar forms while unlike in chemical composition.

Nearly alike in form.