PLEONASTICALLY
PLEONAS'TICALLY, adverb With redundancy of words.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PLEROPHORY
PLEROPH'ORY, noun [Gr. full, and to bear.]Full persuasion or confidence. [Little used.]
PLESH
PLESH, for plash, not used.
PLETHORA
PLETH'ORA, noun [Gr. fullness.] Literally, fullness.In medicine, fullness of blood; excess of blood; repletion; the state of the vessels of the human body, when they are too ful...
PLETHORIC
PLETH'ORIC, adjective Having a full habit of body, or the vessels overcharged with fluids.
PLETHORY
PLETH'ORY. [See Plethora.]
PLETHRON
PLETH'RONPLETH'RUM, noun [Gr.] A square measure used in Greece, but the contents are not certainly known. Some authors suppose it to correspond with the Roman juger, or 240 feet...
PLEURA
PLEU'RA, noun [Gr. the side.] In anatomy, a thin membrane which covers the inside of the thorax.
PLEURISY
PLEU'RISY, noun [Gr. the side.] An inflammation of the pleura or membrane that covers the inside of the thorax. It is accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration and cou...
PLEURITIC
PLEURIT'ICPLEURIT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to pleurisy; as pleuritic symptoms or affections.1. Diseased with pleurisy.
PLEURITICAL
PLEURIT'ICAL, a. Pertaining to pleurisy; as pleuritic symptoms or affections.1. Diseased with pleurisy.
PLEVIN
PLEV'IN, noun A warrant of assurance.
PLEXIFORM
PLEX'IFORM, noun [Latin plexus, a fold, and form.]In the form of net-work; complicated.
PLEXUS
PLEX'US, noun [Latin] Any union of vessels, nerves or fibers, in the form of net-work.
PLIABILITY
PLIABIL'ITY, noun [from pliable.] The quality of bending or yielding to pressure or force without rupture; flexibility; pliableness.
PLIABLE
PLI'ABLE, adjective [Latin plico.]1. Easy to be bent; that readily yields to pressure without rupture; flexible; as, willow is a pliable plant.2. Flexible in disposition; readil...
PLIABLENESS
PLI'ABLENESS, noun Flexibility; the quality of yielding to force or to moral influence; pliability; as the pliableness of a plant or of the disposition.
PLIANCY
PLI'ANCY, noun [from pliant.] Easiness to be bent; in a physical sense; as the pliancy of a rod, of cordage or of limbs.1. Readiness to yield to moral influence; as pliancy of t...
PLIANT
PLI'ANT, adjective That may be easily bent; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; flexile; lithe; limber; as a pliant thread.1. That may be easily fo...
PLIANTNESS
PLI'ANTNESS, noun Flexibility.
PLICA
PLI'CA, noun [Latin a fold.] The plica polonica is a disease of the hair, peculiar to Poland and the neighboring countries. In this disease, the hair of the head is matted or cl...
PLICATE
PLI'CATEPLI'CATED, adjective [Latin plicatus, plico, to fold.]Plaited; folded like a fan; as a plicate leaf.
PLICATION
PLICA'TION, noun [from Latin plico.] A folding or fold.
PLICATURE
PLIC'ATURE, noun [Latin plicatura; plico, to fold.] A fold; a doubling.
PLIERS
PLI'ERS, nounplural An instrument by which any small thing is seized and bent.
PLIFORM
PLI'FORM, adjective In the form of a fold or doubling.
PLIGHT
PLIGHT, verb transitive plite. [Latin plico; flecto, to bend; ligo. See Alloy and Ply.]1. To pledge; to give as security for the performance of some act; but never applied to pr...