PLUMP
PLUMP, adjective1. Full; swelled with fat or flesh to the full size; fat; having a full skin; round; as a plump boy; a plump habit of body.The famish'd crow grows plump and roun...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PLUMPER
PLUMP'ER, noun Something carried in the mouth to dilate the cheeks; any thing intended to swell out something else.1. A full unqualified lie. [In vulgar use.]
PLUMPLY
PLUMP'LY, adverb Fully; roundly; without reserve; as, to assert a thing plumply; a word in common popular use.
PLUMPNESS
PLUMP'NESS, noun Fullness of skin; distention to roundness; as the plumpness of a boy; plumpness of the eye or cheek.
PLUMPY
PLUMP'Y, adjective Plump; fat; jolly. [Not elegant.]
PLUMULE
PLU'MULE, noun In botany, the ascending scaly part of the corculum or heart of a seed; the scaly part of the embryo plant within the seed, which rises and becomes the stem or bo...
PLUMY
PLU'MY, adjective [from plume.] Feathered; covered with feathers.1. Adorned with plumes; as a plumy crest.
PLUNDER
PLUN'DER, verb transitive1. To pillage; to spoil; to strip; to take the goods of an enemy by open force. Nebuchadnezzar plundered the temple of the Jews.2. To take by pillage or...
PLUNDERED
PLUN'DERED, participle passive Pillaged; robbed.
PLUNDERER
PLUN'DERER, noun A hostile pillager; a spoiler.1. A thief; a robber.
PLUNDERING
PLUN'DERING, participle present tense Pillaging; robbing.
PLUNGE
PLUNGE, verb transitive1. To thrust into water or other fluid substance, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse in a fluid; to drive into flesh, mire or earth, etc...
PLUNGED
PLUNG'ED, participle passive Thrust into a fluid or other penetrable substance; immersed; involved in straits.
PLUNGEON
PLUN'GEON, noun A sea fowl.
PLUNGER
PLUNG'ER, noun One that plunges; a diver.1. A cylinder used as a forcer in pumps.
PLUNGING
PLUNG'ING, participle present tense Immersing; diving; rushing headlong.
PLUNGY
PLUNG'Y, adjective Wet. [Not used.]
PLUNKET
PLUNK'ET, noun A kind of blue color.
PLURAL
PLU'RAL, adjective [Latin pluralis, from plus, pluris, more.]1. Containing more than one; consisting of two or more, or designating two or more; as a plural word.2. In grammar, ...
PLURALIST
PLU'RALIST, noun A clerk or clergyman who holds more ecclesiastical benefices than one, with cure of souls.
PLURALITY
PLURAL'ITY, noun [Latin pluralis.]1. A number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as a plurality of gods; a plurality of worlds.2. A state of being or having a greater n...
PLURALLY
PLU'RALLY, adverb In a sense implying more than one.
PLURILITERAL
PLURILIT'ERAL, adjective [Latin plus and litera, letter.]Containing more letters than three.PLURILIT'ERAL, noun A word consisting of more letters than three.
PLURISY
PLU'RISY, noun [Latin plus, pluris.] Superabundance. [Not used.]
PLUS
PLUS, [Latin more,] in algebra, a character marked thus, +, used as the sign of addition.
PLUSH
PLUSH, noun Shag; a species of shaggy cloth or stuff with a velvet nap on one side, composed regularly of a woof of a single thread and a double warp; the one, wool of two threa...
PLUSHER
PLUSH'ER, noun A marine fish.