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.

An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also Sauropterygia.

A plesiosaur.

A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age.

See Pleximeter.

To plead.

Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyper/mia; -- opposed to an/mia.

Plethoric.

Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically.

Plethoric.

Plethora.

A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.

An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.

The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.

The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall.

Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleur/, or to the sides of the thorax.

Pain in the side or region of the ribs.

One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib.

A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.

Pleural.

An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.

Same as Pleuron.

Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms. Suffering from pleurisy.

Pleurisy.

A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.

Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

Same as Pleurobranch.

Any pleurocarpic moss.

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to acrocarpous.

One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebr/ in some fossil batrachians.

A group of fresh-water turtles in which the neck can not be retracted, but is bent to one side, for protection. The matamata is an example.

Any lizard having pleurodont teeth.

A painful affection of the side, simulating pleurisy, usually due to rheumatism.

One of the sides of an animal. One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect. One of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean.

Pertaining to the Pleuronectid/, or Flounder family.

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Pleuropneumonia.

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.

A group of Isectivora, including the colugo.

A genus of diatoms of elongated elliptical shape, but having the sides slightly curved in the form of a letter S. Pleurosigma angulatum has very fine striations, and is a favorite object for testing the high powers of microscopes.

The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.

A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally.

Any marine gastropod belonging to Pleurotoma, and ether allied genera of the family Pleurotmid/. The species are very numerous, especially in tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a posterior notch or slit.

A warrant or assurance.

Like network; complicated.

A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion.

The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together.

A network of vessels, nerves, or fibers.

Full See Plein.

An old term for a river boat.

The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition.

Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.

The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod.

Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.

A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait.

Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.

A folding or fold; a plait.

A fold; a doubling; a plication.

A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.