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.

The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.

One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.

Act or sound of plunking.

A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.

More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event. The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.

The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.

The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.

A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.

The act of pluralizing.

To take a plural; to assume a plural form; as, a noun pluralizes.

A pluralist.

In a plural manner or sense.

A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded.

Of many kinds or fashions; multifarious.

Having several or many leaflets.

Consisting of more letters than three. A pluriliteral word.

Having several cells or loculi having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits.

Producing several young at a birth; as, a pluriparous animal.

Deeply divided into several portions.

Presence in more places than one.

Superabundance; excess; plethora.

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

Like plush; soft and shaggy.

Plutocracy; the rule of wealth.

The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.

The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.

A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.

One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of the plutocracy.

Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic ideas.

The science which treats of wealth.

A Plutonist.

Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.

The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory.

One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.

The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit.

A priest's cope.

See Pluviometer.

See Pluviometrical.

The crocodile bird.

A self-registering rain gauge.

The branch of meteorology treating of the automatic registration of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.; also, the graphic presentation of precipitation data.

An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.

Of or pertaining to a pluviometer; determined by a pluviometer.

That branch of meteorology that treats of the measurement of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc.

A rain gauge.

The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted in 1793. It began January 20, and ended February 18. See Vend/miaire.

Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial.

A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.

One who, or that which, plies A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross. See Pliers.

See Plight.

A spirometer.

A vehicle, as a bicycle, the wheels of which are fitted with pneumatic tires.

Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.

The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.

A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.

A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia.

A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.

Of or pertaining to pneumatology.

One versed in pneumatology.

The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1.

An instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.

See Spirometry.

One of the Pneumonophora.

See Pneumothorax.

A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.

Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach. The pneumogastric nerve.

Same as Pneumatograph.

A description of the lungs.

The science which treats of the lungs.

A spirometer.

Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air.

Inflammation of the lungs.

A medicine for affections of the lungs.

Of or pertaining to pneumonitis.

Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.

A spirometer; a pneumometer.

The division of Siphonophora which includes the Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophor/.

See Pneumonia.

Same as Sauropsida.

A division of holothurians having an internal gill, or respiratory tree.

A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.

The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.

A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.