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.

One of the Plesiosauria.

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.

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.

imp. p. p. of Ply.

A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.

In the form of a ply, fold, or doubling.

To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.

One who, or that which, plights.

To swell, as grain or wood with water.

In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.

The Pliocene period or deposits.

An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.

An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.

An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.

A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.

A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, /His wife's a wife indeed./

To walk on slowly or heavily.

One who plods; a drudge.

Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits.

To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.

A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plong/e of a parapet; the plong/e of a shell in its course.

Act of plopping; the sound made in plopping.

to drop (something) so that it makes a plopping sound; especially, to drop with the sound of something falling into water.

To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

Secure against harm by plots.

Abounding with plots.

Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines.

A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.

One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

See Plow.

To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.

Capable of being plowed; arable.

Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.

Same as Plowgate.

The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland.

The clevis or draught iron of a plow.

One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman.

A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.

The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.

The hind part or handle of a plow.

One who makes or repairs plows.

Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.

Act of ploutering; floundering; act or sound of splashing.

Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadrid/, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrins/. They are prized as game birds.