Webster's Dictionary 1913

5131

Platten

Plat″ten (?), v. t. [See Plat, a.] (Glass Making) To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten cylinder glass.

5132

Platter

Plat″ter (?), n. [From Plat to braid.] One who plats or braids.

5133

Platter (2)

Plat″ter, n. [Probably fr. OF. platel, F. plateau. See Plateau.] A large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table.The attendants... speedly brou...

5134

Platter-faced

Plat″ter–faced′ (?), a. Having a broad, flat face.

5135

Platting

Plat″ting (?), n. Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.

5136

Platy

Plat″y (?), a. Like a plate; consisting of plates.

5137

Platy-

Plat″y– (?). A combining form from Gr. πλατύσbroad, wide, flat; as, platypus, platycephalous.

5138

Platycephalic

{ Plat′y‐ce‐phal″ic (?), Plat′y‐ceph″a‐lous (?), } a. [Platy + Gr. � head.] (Anat.) Broad-headed.

5139

Platycnemic

Plat′yc‐ne″mic (?), a. [Platy + Gr. � leg: cf. F. platycnémique.] (Anat.) Of, relating to, or characterized by, platycnemism.

5140

Platycnemism

Pla‐tyc″ne‐mism (?), n.(Anat.) Lateral flattening of the tibia.

5141

Platycœlian

Plat′y‐cœ″li‐an (?), a. [Platy + Gr. � hollow.] (Anat.) Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; — said of the centra of the vertebræ of some extinct dinouaurs.

5142

Platyelminthes

‖Plat′y‐el‐min″thes (?), n. pl. [NL. See Platy-, and Helminthes.] (Zoöl.) A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Call...

5143

Platyhelmia

‖Plat′y‐hel″mi‐a (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) Same as Platyelminthes. [Written also Platyelmia.]

5144

Platymeter

Pla‐tym″e‐ter (?), n. [Platy + -meter.] (Elec.) An apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.

5145

Platypod

Plat″y‐pod (?), n. [Platy + -pod.] (Zoöl.) An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.

5146

Platypoda

‖Pla‐typ″o‐da (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) Same as Prosobranchiata.

5147

Platyptera

‖Pla‐typ″te‐ra (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone flies (Pe...

5148

Platypus

Plat″y‐pus (?), n.(Zoöl.) The duck mole. See under Duck.

5149

Platyrhine

Plat″y‐rhine (?), a. [Platy + Gr. �, �, nose.] (Anat.) Having the nose broad; — opposed to leptorhine. — n.(Zoöl.) One of the Platyrhini.

5150

Platyrhini

‖Plat′y‐rhi″ni (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A division of monkeys, including the American species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Mo...

5151

Plaud

Plaud (?), v. t. To applaud. Chapman.

5152

Plaudit

Plau″dit (?), n. [From L. plaudite do ye praise (which was said by players at the end of a performance), 2d pers. pl. imperative of plaudere. Cf. Plausible.] A mark or expressio...

5153

Plauditory

Plau″di‐to‐ry (?), a. Applauding; commending.

5154

Plausibility

Plau′si‐bil″i‐ty (?), n. [Cf. F. plausibilité.] 1. Something worthy of praise.Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities. E. Vaughan.2. The quality of being plausibl...

5155

Plausible

Plau″si‐ble (?), a. [L. plausibilis praiseworthy, from plaudere, plausum, to applaud, clap the hands, strike, beat.] 1. Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; rea...

5156

Plausibleize

Plau″si‐ble‐ize (?), v. t. To render plausible.

5157

Plausibleness

Plau″si‐ble‐ness, n. Quality of being plausible.