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.

Of or pertaining to a pluteus.

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.

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.

Nightmare.

The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.

A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see).

To become soft or muddy.

A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water widgeon, or red-headed widgeon. The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.

One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.

The state of being poachy; marshiness.

Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land

Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.

The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.

See Poachard.

A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

See Pockmarked.

Pockmarked; pitted.

A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

See Pockmarked.

To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.

A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.

As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.

A knife with one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

The state of being pocky.

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Lignum-vit/.

Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease.

A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco pi/ allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.

Peacock.

A careless person; a trifler.

Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia.

Fit for drink.

Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.

To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

Gout in the joints of the foot; -- applied also to gout in other parts of body.

Gouty; podagric.