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.

To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.

The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

Having courage and spirit.

One who, or that which, plucks.

In a plucky manner.

The quality or state of being plucky.

Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.

Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.

A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder.

To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

One who, or that which, plugs.

The act of stopping with a plug.

A feather.

The entire clothing of a bird.

A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.

One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.

To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.

Leadwork

A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family.

Pertaining to natural order (Plumbagine/) of gamopetalous herbs, of which Plumbago is the type. The order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.

Resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing, plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate.

Same as Graphite.

Consisting of, or resembling, lead.

One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead pipes.

The business of a plumber.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.

Producing or containing lead.

The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.

A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.

The technical name of lead. See Lead.

A cross between the plum and apricot.

To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.

Without plumes.

A small plume.

Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.

An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.

Feathered; having feathers.

Having the of a plume or feather.

Having feet covered with feathers. A plumiped bird.

A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.

The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.

Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.

Same as Jamesonite.

The quality or state of being plumose.

Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.

Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve.

The quality or state of being plump.

Plump; fat; sleek.

A plumule.

Downy; bearing down.

Relating to a plumule.

Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularid/. They generally grow in plumelike forms.

Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.

The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle.

Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.

Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.

The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.

The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.

One who plunders or pillages.