PLAINLY
PLA'INLY, adverb With a level surface. [Little used.]1. Without cunning or disguise.2. Without ornament or artificial embellishment; as, to be plainly clad.3. Frankly; honestly;...
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PLAINNESS
PLA'INNESS, noun Levelness; evenness or surface.1. Want of ornament; want of artificial show.So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.2. Openness; rough, blunt or unrefined fr...
PLAINT
PLAINT, noun [Latin plango, to strike, to beat, to lament, whence complaint; Gr. to strike, from the root disused, whence, a stroke; Latin plaga, Eng. plague.]1. Lamentation; co...
PLAINTFUL
PLA'INTFUL, adjective Complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice; as my plaintful tongue.
PLAINTIF
PLA'INTIF, noun In law, the person who commences a suit before a tribunal, for the recovery of a claim; opposed to defendant.[Prior uses this word as an adjective, in the French...
PLAINTIVE
PLA'INTIVE, adjective Lamenting; complaining; expressive of sorrow; as a plaintive sound or song.1. Complaining; expressing sorrow or grief; repining.To sooth the sorrows of her...
PLAINTIVELY
PLA'INTIVELY, adv. In a manner expressive of grief.
PLAINTIVENESS
PLA'INTIVENESS, noun The quality or state of expressing grief.
PLAINTLESS
PLA'INTLESS, adjective Without complaint; unrepining.
PLAISE
PLAISE, noun A fish of the genus Pleuronectes, growing to the size of eight or ten pounds or more. This fish is more flat and square than the halibut.
PLAIT
PLAIT, noun [Gr. to twist.]1. A fold; a doubling; as of cloth.It is very difficult to trace out the figure of a vest through all the plaits and folding of the drapery.2. A braid...
PLAITED
PLA'ITED, participle passive Folded; braided; interwoven.
PLAITER
PLA'ITER, noun One that plaits or braids.
PLAITING
PLA'ITING, participle present tense Folding; doubling; braiding.
PLAN
PLAN, noun1. A draught or form; properly, the representation of any thing drawn on a plane, as a map or chart, which is a representation of some portion of land or water. But th...
PLANARY
PLA'NARY, adjective Pertaining to a plane.
PLANCH
PLANCH, verb transitive [See Plank.] To plank; to cover with planks or boards.
PLANCHED
PLANCH'ED, participle passive Covered or made of planks or boards.
PLANCHER
PLANCH'ER, noun A floor.
PLANCHET
PLANCH'ET, noun [See Plank.] A flat piece of metal or coin.
PLANCHING
PLANCH'ING, noun The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.
PLANE
PLANE, noun [from Latin planus. See Plain.] In geometry, an even or level surface, like plain in popular language.1. In astronomy, an imaginary surface supposed to pass through ...
PLANE-TREE
PLA'NE-TREE, noun [Latin platanus.] A tree of the genus Platanus. The oriental plane-tree is a native of Asia; it rises with a straight smooth branching stem to a great highth, ...
PLANED
PLA'NED, participle passive Made smooth with a plane; leveled.
PLANET
PLAN'ET, noun [Latin planeta; Gr. wandering, to wander, allied to Latin planus. See Plant.] A celestial body which revolves about the sun or other center, or a body revolving ab...
PLANET-STRUCK
PLAN'ET-STRUCK, adjective Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.
PLANETARIUM
PLANETA'RIUM, noun An astronomical machine which, by the movement of its parts, represents the motions and orbits of the planets, agreeable to the Copernican system.