Webster's Dictionary 1913

5077

Platanus

‖Plat″a‐nus (?), n. [See Plane the tree.] (Bot.) A genus of trees; the plane tree.

5078

Platband

Plat″band′ (?), n. [F. plate-bande; plat, plate, flat, level + bande a band.] 1. A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border.2. (Arch.) (a) A fl...

5079

Plate

Plate (?), n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. �. See Place, n.] 1. A flat, or near...

5080

Plate (2)

Plate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Plated; p. pr. & vb. n.Plating.] 1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a c...

5081

Plate (3)

Plate (?), n. 1. (Baseball) A small five-sided area (enveloping a diamond-shaped area one foot square) beside which the batter stands and which must be touched by some part of a...

5082

Plate-gilled

Plate″–gilled′ (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.

5083

Plateau

Pla‐teau″ (?), n.; pl. F. Plateaux (F. �; E. �), E. Plateaus (#). [F., fr. OF. platel, properly a little plate. See Plate.] 1. A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevat...

5084

Plateful

Plate″ful (?), n.; pl.Platefuls (�). Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.

5085

Platel

Pla″tel (?), n. [OF. See Plateau.] A small dish.

5086

Platen

Plat″en (?), n. [F. platine, fr. plat flat. See Plate, and cf. Platin.] (Mach.) (a) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impres...

5087

Plater

Plat″er (?), n. One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.2. A machine for calendering paper.

5088

Plater (2)

Plat″er (?), n.(Horse Racing) A horse that runs chiefly in plate, esp. selling-plate, races; hence, an inferior race horse.

5089

Plateresque

Plat′er‐esque″ (?), a. [Sp. resco, from plata silver.] (Arch.) Resembling silver plate; — said of certain architectural ornaments.

5090

Platetrope

Plat″e‐trope (?), n.(Anat.) One of a pair of a paired organs.

5091

Platform

Plat″form′ (?), n. [Plat, a. + -form: cf. F. plateforme.] 1. A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively. Bacon.2. A place laid out after a model.lf the...

5092

Platform (2)

Plat″form′, v. t. 1. To place on a platform.2. To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.Church discipline is platformed in the Bible. Milton.

5093

Plathelminth

Plat‐hel″minth (?), n.(Zoöl.) One of the Platyelminthes.

5094

Plathelminthes

‖Plat′hel‐min″thes (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) Same as Platyelminthes.

5095

Platin

Plat″in (?), n.(Mach.) See Platen.

5096

Platina

Plat″i‐na (?), n. [Sp. or NL. See Platinum.] (Chem.) Platinum.Platina mohr, platinum black. — Platina yellow, a pigment prepared from platinum.

5097

Plating

Plat″ing (?), n. 1. The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious ...

5098

Platinic

Pla‐tin″ic (?), a.(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; — used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted w...

5099

Platinichloric

Plat′i‐ni‐chlo″ric (?), a.(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline su...

5100

Platiniferous

Plat′i‐nif″er‐ous (?), a. [Platinum + -ferous.] Yielding platinum; as, platiniferous sand.

5101

Platiniridium

Plat′i‐ni‐rid″i‐um (?), n.(Chem. & Min.) A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.

5102

Platinize

Plat″i‐nize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Platinized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Platinizing (?).] To cover or combine with platinum.

5103

Platinochloric

Plat′i‐no‐chlo″ric (?), a.(Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid consisting of platinous chloride and hydrochloric acid, called platinochloric, or chloropl...