Dictionary entry

Plain (5)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Plain, n. [Cf. OF. plaigne, F. plaine. See Plain, a.] 1. Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.

Descending fro the mountain into playn. Chaucer.

Him the Ammonite

Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. Milton.

2. A field of battle. Arbuthnot.

Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. Shak.