Piquancy – Plane

Piquancy

PIQUANCY, noun pik'ancy. [infra.] Sharpness; pungency; tartness; severity.

Piquant

PIQUANT, adjective pik'ant.

1. Pricking; stimulating to the tongue; as rock as piguant to the tongue as salt.

2. Sharp; tart; pungent; severe; as piquant railleries.

Piquantly

PIQUANTLY, adverb pik'antly. With sharpness or pungency; tartly.

Pique

PIQUE, noun peek. An offense taken; usually, slight anger, irritation or displeasure at persons, rather temporary than permanent, and distinguished either in degree or temporariness from settled enmity or malevolence.

Out of personal pique to those in service, he stands as a looker on, when the government is attacked.

1. A strong passion.

2. Point; nicety; punctilio.

Add long prescription of established laws,

And pique of honor to maintain a cause.

PIQUE, verb transitive peek.

1. To offend; to nettle; to irritate; to sting; to fret; to excite a degree of anger. It expresses less than exasperate.

The lady was piqued by her indifference.

2. To stimulate; to excite to action; to touch with envy; jealousy or other passion.

Piqu'd by Protogenes'fame,

From Co to Rhodes Apelles came--

3. With the reciprocal pronoun, to pride or value one's self.

Men pique themselves on their skill in the learned languages.

Piqued

PIQUED, participle passive pee'ked. Irritated; nettled; offended; excited.

Piqueer

PIQUEER. [See Pickeer.]

Piqueerer

PIQUEE'RER, noun A plunderer; a freebooter. [See Pickeerer.]

Piquet

PIQUET. [See Picket.]

PIQUET, noun piket'. A game at cards played between two persons, with only thirty two cards; all the deuces, threes, fours, fives and sixes being set aside.

Piquing

PIQUING, participle present tense pee'king. Irritating; offending; priding.

Piracy

PI'RACY, noun [Latin piratica, from Gr. to attempt, to dare, to enterprise, whence Latin periculum, experior; Eng. to fare.]

1. The act, practice or crime of robbing on the high seas; the taking of property from others by open violence and without authority, on the sea; a crime that answers to robbery on land.

Other acts than robbery on the high seas, are declared by statute to be piracy See Act of Congress, April 30, 1790.

2. The robbing of another by taking his writings.

Piragua

PIRAGUA, noun pirau'gua. This word is variously written, periagua or pirogue. The former is the spelling of Washington and Jefferson; the latter of Charlevoix.]

1. A canoe formed out of the truck of a tree, or two canoes united.

2. In modern usage in America, a narrow ferry boat carrying two masts and a leeboard.

Pirate

PI'RATE, noun [Latin pirata.]

1. A robber on the high seas; one that by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas. In strictness, the word pirate is one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas.

2. An armed ship or vessel which sails without legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels indiscriminately on the high seas.

3. A bookseller that seizes the copies or writings of other men without permission.

PI'RATE, verb intransitive To rob on the high seas.

PI'RATE, verb transitive To take by theft or without right or permission, as books or writings.

They advertised they would pirate his edition.

Pirated

PI'RATED, participle passive Taken by theft or without right.

Piratical

PIRAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin piraticus.] Robbing or plundering by open violence on the high seas; as a piratical commander or ship.

1. Consisting in piracy; predatory; robbing; as a piratical trade or occupation.

2. Practicing literary theft.

The errors of the press were multiplied by piratical printers.

Piratically

PIRAT'ICALLY, adverb By piracy.

Pirating

PI'RATING, participle present tense Robbing on the high seas; taking without right, as a book or writing.

1. adjective Undertaken for the sake of piracy; as a pirating expedition.

Pirogue

PIROGUE piro'ge

Pirry

PIR'RY, noun A rough gale of wind; a storm. [Not used.]

Piscary

PIS'CARY, noun [Latin piscis, a fish; piscor, to fish.]

In law, the right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

Piscation

PISCA'TION, noun [Latin piscatio. See Piscary and Fish.]

The act or practice of fishing.

Piscatory

PIS'CATORY, adjective [Latin piscatorius.] Relating to fishes or to fishing; as a piscatory eclogue.

Pisces

PIS'CES, noun plural [Latin piscis.] In astronomy, the Fishes, the twelfth sign or constellation in the zodiac.

Piscine

PIS'CINE, adjective [Latin piscis, a fish.]

Pertaining to fish or fishes; as piscine remains.

Piscivorous

PISCIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin piscis, a fish, and voro, to eat.]

Feeding or subsisting on fishes. Many species of aquatic fowls are piscivorous

Pish

PISH, exclamation A word expressing contempt; sometimes spoken and written pshaw.

PISH, verb intransitive To express contempt.

Pisiform

PIS'IFORM, adjective [Latin pisum, a pea, and forma, form.]

Having the form of a pea.

Masses of pisiform argillaceous iron ore.

Pismire

PIS'MIRE, noun The insect called the ant or emmet.

Pisolite

PIS'OLITE, noun [Gr. a pea, and a stone.] Peastone, a carbonate of lime, slightly colored by the oxyd of iron. It occurs in little globular concretions of the size of a pea or larger, which usually contain each a grain of sand as a nucleus. These concretions in union sometimes compose entire beds of secondary mountains. It is sometimes called calcarious tufa.

Pisophalt

PIS'OPHALT, noun Pea-mineral or mineral-pea; a soft bitumen, black and of a strong pungent smell. It appears to be petrol passing to asphalt. It holds a middle place between petrol, which is liquid, and asphalt, which is dry and brittle.

Piss

PISS, verb transitive To discharge the liquor secreted by the kidneys and lodged in the urinary bladder.

PISS, noun Urine; the liquor secreted by the kidneys into the bladder of an animal and discharged through the proper channel.

Pissabed

PISS'ABED, noun The vulgar name of a yellow flower, growing among grass.

Pissasphalt

PIS'SASPHALT, noun [Gr. pitch, and asphalt.] Earth-pitch; pitch mixed with bitumen, natural or artificial; a fluid opake mineral substance, thick and inflammable, but leaving a residuum after burning.

Pissburnt

PISS'BURNT, adjective Stained with urine.

Pist

PIST

PISTA'CHIO, noun [Latin pistachia.] The nut of the Pistacia terebinthus or turpentine tree, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, of a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yielding a well tasted oil. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Syria, Arabia and Persia.

Pistachio

PISTA'CHIO, n. [L. pistachia.] The nut of the Pistacia terebinthus or turpentine tree, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, of a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yielding a well tasted oil. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Syria, Arabia and Persia.

Pistacite

PIS'TACITE

PISTAREE'N, noun A silver coin of the value of 17 or 18 cents, or 9d sterling.

Pistareen

PISTAREE'N, n. A silver coin of the value of 17 or 18 cents, or 9d sterling.

Pistazite

PIS'TAZITE, [See Epidote.]

Piste

PISTE, noun The track or foot-print of a horseman on the ground he goes over.

Pistil

PIS'TIL, noun [Latin pistillum, a pestle.] In botany, the pointal, an organ of female flowers adhering to the fruit for the reception of the pollen, supposed to be a continuation of the pith, and when perfect, consisting of three parts, the germ or ovary, the style, and the stigma.

Pistillaceous

PISTILLA'CEOUS, adjective Growing on the germ or seed bud of a flower.

Pistillate

PIS'TILLATE, adjective Having or consisting in a pistil.

Pistillation

PISTILLA'TION, noun [Latin pistillum, a pestle, that is, a beater or driver.] The act of pounding in a mortar. [Little used.]

Pistilliferous

PISTILLIF'EROUS, adjective [pistil and Latin fero, to bear.]

Having a pistil without stamens; as a female flower.

Pistol

PIS'TOL, noun A small fire-arm, or the smallest fire-arm used, differing from a musket chiefly in size. Pistols are of different lengths, and borne by horsemen in cases at the saddle bow, or by a girdle. Small pistols are carried in the pocket.

PIS'TOL, verb transitive To shoot with a pistol

Pistole

PISTO'LE, noun A gold coin of Spain, but current in the neighboring countries.

Pistolet

PIS'TOLET, noun A little pistol.

Piston

PIS'TON, noun [Latin pinso, the primary sense of which is to press, send, drive, thrust or strike, like embolus.]

A short cylinder of metal or other solid substance, used in pumps and other engines or machines for various purposes. It is fitted exactly to the bore of another body so as to prevent the entrance or escape of air, and is usually applied to the purpose of forcing some fluid into or out of the canal or tube which it fills, as in pumps, fire-engines and the like.

1. An artificial cavity made in the earth by digging; a deep hole in the earth.

2. A deep place; an abyss; profundity.

Into what pit thou seest

From what height fallen.

3. The grave. Psalms 28:1 and 30.

4. The area for cock-fighting; whence the phrase, to fly the pit.

5. The middle part of a theater.

6. The hollow of the body at the stomach. We say, the pit of the stomach.

7. The cavity under the shoulder; as the arm-pit.

8. A dint made by impression on a soft substance, as by the finger, etc.

9. A little hollow in the flesh, made by a pustule, as in the small picks.

10. A hollow place in the earth excavated for catching wild beasts; hence in Scripture, whatever ensnares and brings into calamity or misery, from which it is difficult to escape. Psalms 7:1. Proverbs 22:1. and 23.

11. Great distress and misery, temporal, spiritual or eternal. Isaiah 38:1. Psa 40.

12. Hell; as the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:1.

Pit

PIT, verb transitive To indent; to press into hollows.

1. To mark with little hollows, as by variolous pustules; as the face pitted by the small pocks.

2. To set in competition, as in combat.

Pit-Coal

PIT'-COAL, noun Fossil coal; coal dug from the earth.

Pit-Fish

PIT-FISH, noun A small fish of the Indian seas, about the size of a smelt, of a green and yellow color. It has the power of protruding or retracting its eyes at pleasure.

Pitahaya

PITAHA'YA, noun A shrub of California, which yields a delicious fruit, the Cactus Pitajaya.

Pitapat

PIT'APAT, adverb [probably allied to beat.] In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats; as, his heart went pitapat

PIT'APAT, noun A light quick step.

Now I hear the pitapat of a pretty foot, through the dark alley.

Pitch

PITCH, noun [Latin pix; Gr. most probably named from its thickness or inspissation; Latin figo.]

1. A thick tenacious substance, the juice of a species of pine or fir called abies picea, obtained by incision from the bark of the tree. When melted and pressed in bags of cloth, it is received into barrels. This is white or Burgundy pitch; by mixture with lampblack it is converted into black pitch When kept long in fusion with vinegar, it becomes dry and brown, and forms colophony. The smoke of pitch condensed forms lampblack.

2. The resin of pine, or turpentine, inspissated; used in caulking ships and paying the sides and bottom.

PITCH, noun [from the root of pike, peak.]

1. Literally, a point; hence, any point or degree of elevation; as a high pitch; lowest pitch

How high a pitch his resolution soars.

Alcibiades was one of the best orators of his age, notwithstanding he lived when learning was at its highest pitch

2. Highest rise.

3. Size; stature.

So like in person, garb and pitch

4. Degree; rate.

No pitch of glory from the grave is free.

5. The point where a declivity begins, or the declivity itself; descent; slope; as the pitch of a hill.

6. The degree of descent or declivity.

7. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

8. Degree of elevation of the key-note of a tune or of any note.

PITCH, verb transitive [Latin figo, to fix, and uniting pike, pique with fix.]

1. To throw or thrust, and primarily, to thrust a long or pointed object; hence, to fix; to plant; to set; as, to pitch a tent or pavilion, that is, to set the stakes.

2. To throw at a point; as, to pitch quoits.

3. To throw headlong; as, to pitch one in the mire or down a precipice.

4. To throw with a fork; as, to pitch hay or sheaves of corn.

5. To regulate or set the key-note of a tune in music.

6. To set in array; to marshal or arrange in order; used chiefly in the participle; as a pitched battle.

7. [from pitch ] To smear or pay over with pitch; as, to pitch the seams of a ship.

PITCH, verb intransitive To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.

Take a branch of the tree on which the bees pitch and wipe the hive.

1. To fall headlong; as, to pitch from a precipice; to pitch on the head.

2. To plunge; as, to pitch into a river.

3. To fall; to fix choice; with on or upon.

PITCH upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the most easy.

4. To fix a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.

Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. Genesis 31:25.

5. In navigation, to rise and fall, as the head and stern of a ship passing over waves.

6. To flow or fall precipitously, as a river.

Over this rock, the river pitches in one entire sheet.

Pitched

PITCH'ED, participle passive Set; planted; fixed; thrown headlong; set in array; smeared with pitch.

Pitcher

PITCH'ER, noun

1. An earthen vessel with a spout for pouring out liquors. This is its present signification. It seems formerly to have signified a water pot, jug or jar with ears.

2. An instrument for piercing the ground.

Pitchfarthing

PITCH'FARTHING, noun A play in which copper coin is pitched into a hole; called also chuck-farthing, from the root of choke.

Pitchfork

PITCH'FORK, noun A fork or farming utensil used in throwing hay or sheaves of grain, in loading or unloading carts and wagons.

Pitchiness

PITCH'INESS, noun [from pitch.] Blackness; darkness. [Little used.]

Pitching

PITCH'ING, participle present tense Setting; planting or fixing; throwing headlong; plunging; daubing with pitch; setting, as a tune.

1. adjective Declivous; descending; sloping; as a hill.

PITCH'ING, noun In navigation, the rising and falling of the head and stern of a ship, as she moves over waves; or the vertical vibration of a ship about her center of gravity.

PITCH'-ORE, noun Pitch-blend, an ore of uranium.

Pitchpipe

PITCH'PIPE, noun An instrument used by choristers in regulating the pitch or elevation of the key or leading note of a tune.

PITCH'-STONE, noun A mineral, a sub-species of quartz, which in luster and texture resembles pitch, whence its name. It is sometimes called resinite. Its colors are, several shades of green; black with green, brown or gray; brown, tinged with red, green or yellow; sometimes yellowish or blue. It occurs in large beds and sometimes forms whole mountains.

Pitchy

PITCH'Y, adjective Partaking of the qualities of pitch; like pitch.

1. Smeared with pitch.

2. Black; dark; dismal; as the pitchy mantle of night.

Piteous

PIT'EOUS, adjective [See Pity.] Sorrowful; mournful; that may excite pity; as a piteous look.

1. Wretched; miserable; deserving compassion; as a piteous condition.

2. Compassionate; affected by pity.

3. Pitiful; paltry; poor; as piteous amends.

Piteously

PIT'EOUSLY, adverb In a piteous manner; with compassion.

1. Sorrowfully; mournfully.

Piteousness

PIT'EOUSNESS, noun Sorrowfulness.

1. Tenderness; compassion.

Pitfall

PIT'FALL, noun A pit slightly covered for concealment, and intended to catch wild beasts or men.

PIT'FALL, verb transitive To lead into a pitfall

Pith

PITH, noun

1. The soft spungy substance in the center of plants and trees.

2. In animals, the spinal marrow.

3. Strength or force.

4. Energy; cogency; concentrated force; closeness and vigor of thought and style.

5. Condensed substance or matter; quintessence. The summary contains the pith of the original.

6. Weight; moment; importance.

Enterprises of great pith and moment.

Pithily

PITH'ILY, adverb With strength; with close or concentrated force; cogently; with energy.

Pithiness

PITH'INESS, noun Strength; concentrated force; as the pithiness of a reply.

Pithless

PITH'LESS, adjective Destitute of pith; wanting strength.

1. Wanting cogency or concentrated force.

Pithole

PIT'HOLE, noun A mark made by disease.

Pithy

PITH'Y, adjective Consisting of pith; containing pith; abounding with pith; as a pithy substance; a pithy stem.

1. Containing concentrated force; forcible; energetic; as a pithy word or expression.

This pithy speech prevailed and all agreed.

2. Uttering energetic words or expressions.

In all these, Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy

Pitiable

PIT'IABLE, adjective Deserving pity; worthy of compassion; miserable; as pitiable persons; a pitiable condition.

Pitiableness

PIT'IABLENESS, noun State of deserving compassion.

Pitied

PIT'IED, participle passive Compassionated. [See the verb, to pity.]

Pitiful

PIT'IFUL, adjective [See Pity.] Full of pity; tender; compassionate; having a heart to feel sorrow and sympathy for the distressed. James 5:11. 1 Peter 3:8. [This is the proper sense of the word.]

1. Miserable; moving compassion; as a sight most pitiful; a pitiful condition.

2. To be pitied for its littleness or meanness; paltry; contemptible; despicable.

That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.

3. Very small; insignificant.

Pitifully

PIT'IFULLY, adverb With pity; compassionately.

Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts.

1. In a manner to excite pity.

They would sign and groan as pitifully as other men.

2. Contemptibly; with meanness.

Pitifulness

PIT'IFULNESS, noun Tenderness of heart that disposes to pity; mercy; compassion.

1. Contemptibleness.

Pitiless

PIT'ILESS, adjective Destitute of pity; hardhearted; applied to persons; as a pitiless master.

1. Exciting no pity; as a pitiless state.

Pitilessly

PIT'ILESSLY, adverb Without mercy or compassion.

Pitilessness

PIT'ILESSNESS, noun Unmercifulness; insensibility to the distresses of others.

Pitman

PIT'MAN, noun The man that stands in a pit when sawing timber with another man who stands above.

PIT'-SAW, noun A large saw used in dividing timber, and used by two men, one of whom stands in a pit below.

Pittance

PIT'TANCE, noun [The word signifies primarily, a portion of food allowed to a monk. The Spanish has pitar, to distribute allowances of meat, and pitancero, a person who distributes allowances, or a friar who lives on charity.]

1. An allowance of meat in a monastery.

2. A very small portion allowed or assigned.

3. A very small quantity.

Pituitary

PITU'ITARY, adjective [Latin pituita, phlegm, rheum; Gr. to spit.]

That secretes phlegm or mucus; as the pituitary membrane.

The pituitary gland is a small oval body on the lower side of the brain, supposed by the ancients to secrete the mucus of the nostrils.

Pituite

PIT'UITE, noun [Latin pituita.] Mucus.

Pituitous

PITU'ITOUS, adjective [Latin pituitosus.] Consisting of mucus, or resembling it in qualities.

Pity

PITY, noun [The Latin, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages unite pity and piety in the same word, and the word may be from the root of compassion; Latin patior, to suffer.]

1. The feeling or suffering of one person, excited by the distresses of another; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion or fellow-suffering.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord. Proverbs 19:17.

In Scripture however, the word pity usually includes

compassion accompanied with some act of charity or benevolence, and not simply a fellow feeling of distress.

PITY is always painful, yet always agreeable.

2. The ground or subject of pity; cause of grief; thing to be regretted.

What pity is it

That we can die but once to serve our country!

That he is old, the more is the pity his white hairs do witness it.

In this sense, the word has a plural. It is a thousand pities he should waste his estate in prodigality.

PIT'Y, verb transitive To feel pain or grief for one in distress; to have sympathy for; to compassionate; to have tender feelings for one, excited by his unhappiness.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Psalms 103:1.

Taught by that power who pities me,

I learn to pity them.

PIT'Y, verb intransitive To be compassionate; to exercise pity

I will not pity nor spare, nor have mercy. Jeremiah 13:14.

[But this may be considered as an elliptical phrase.]

Pivot

PIV'OT, noun A pin on which any thing turns.

Pix

PIX, noun [Latin pyxis.] A little box or chest in which the consecrated host is kept in Roman catholic countries.

1. A box used for the trial of gold and silver coin.

Pizzle

PIZ'ZLE, noun In certain quadrupeds, the part which is official to generation and the discharge of urine.

Placability

PLACABIL'ITY

PLA'CABLE, adjective [Latin placabilis, from placo, to pacify; probably formed on the root of lay. See Please.]

That may be appeased or pacified; appeasable; admitting its passions or irritations to be allayed; willing to forgive.

Methought I saw him placable and mild.

Placable

PLA'CABLE, a. [L. placabilis, from placo, to pacify; probably formed on the root of lay. See Please.]

That may be appeased or pacified; appeasable; admitting its passions or irritations to be allayed; willing to forgive. Methought I saw him placable and mild.

Placableness

PLA'CABLENESS, noun [from placable.] The quality of being appeasable; susceptibility of being pacified.

Placard

PLAC'ARD, noun Properly, a written or printed paper posted in a public place. It seems to have been formerly the name of an edict, proclamation or manifesto issued by authority, but this sense is, I believe, seldom or never annexed to the word. A placard now is an advertisement, or a libel, or a paper intended to censure public or private characters or public measures, posted in a public place. In the case of libels or papers intended to censure public or private characters, or the measures of government, these papers are usually pasted up at night for secrecy.

Placate

PLA'CATE, verb transitive [Latin placo, to appease.]

To appease or pacify; to conciliate.

Place

PLACE, noun

1. A particular portion of space of indefinite extent, occupied or intended to be occupied by any person or thing, and considered as the space where a person or thing does or may rest or has rested, as distinct from space in general.

Look from the place where thou art. Genesis 13:3.

The place where thou standest is holy ground. Exodus 3:5.

Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours. .11.

David's place was empty. 1 Samuel 20:19.

2. Any portion of space, as distinct from space in general.

Enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place Esther 4:14.

3. Local existence.

From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. Revelation 20:11.

4. Separate room or apartment.

His catalogue had an especial place for sequestered divines.

5. Seat; residence; mansion.

The Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. John 11:6.

6. A portion or passage of writing or of a book.

The place of the Scripture which he read was this. Acts 8:32.

7. Point or degree in order of proceeding; as in the first place; in the second place; in the last place Hence,

8. Rank; order of priority, dignity or importance. He holds the first place in society, or in the affections of the people.

9. Office, employment; official station. The man has a place under the government.

Do you your office, or give up your place

10. Ground; room.

There is no place of doubting but that it is the very same.

11. Station in life; calling; occupation; condition. All, in their several places, perform their duty.

12. A city, a town; a village. In what place does he reside? He arrived at this place in the mail coach. Genesis 18:24.

13. In military affairs, a fortified town or post; a fortress; a fort; as a strong place; a place easily defended. The place was taken by assault.

14. A country; a kingdom. England is the place of his birth.

15. Space in general.

But she all place within herself confines.

16. Room; stead; with the sense of substitution.

And Joseph said unto them, fear not; for am I in the place of God? Gen 1.

17. Room; kind reception.

My word hath no place in you. John 8:37.

18. The place of the moon, in astronomy, is the part of its orbit where it is found at any given time. The place of the sun or a star, is the sign and degree of the zodiac, in which it is at any given time, or the degree of the ecliptic, reckoning from the beginning of Aries, which the star's circle of longitude cuts, and therefore coincides with the longitude of the sun or star.

To take place to come; to happen; to come into actual existence or operation; as when we say, this or that event will or will not take place The perfect exemption of man from calamity can never take place in this state of existence.

1. To take the precedence or priority.

take the place but sometimes to take place omitting the article, is to occupy the place or station of another.

To have place to have a station, room or seat. Such desires can have no place in a good heart.

1. To have actual existence.

To give place to make room or way. Give place to your superiors.

1. To give room; to give advantage; to yield to the influence of; to listen to.

Neither give place to the devil. Ephesians 4:27.

2. To give way; to yield to and suffer to pass away.

High place in Scripture, a mount on which sacrifices were offered.

PLACE, verb transitive To put or set in a particular part of space, or in a particular part of the earth, or in something on its surface; to locate; as, to place a house by the side of a stream; to place a book on a shelf; to place a body of cavalry on each flank of any army.

1. To appoint, set, induct or establish in an office.

Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, etc. Exodus 18:21.

It is a high moral duty of sovereigns and supreme magistrates and councils, to place in office men of unquestionable virtue and talents.

2. To put or set in any particular rank, state or condition. Some men are placed in a condition of rank and opulence, others are placed in low or narrow circumstances; but in whatever sphere men are placed, contentment will insure to them a large portion of happiness.

3. To set; to fix; as, to place one's affections on an object; to place confidence in a friend.

4. To put; to invest; as, to place money in the funds or in a bank.

5. To put out at interest; to lend; as, to place money in good hands or in good security.

Place-Man

PLA'CE-MAN, noun One that has an office under a government.

Placed

PLA'CED, participle passive Set; fixed; located; established.

Placenta

PLACEN'TA, noun [Latin]

1. In anatomy, the substance that connects the fetus to the womb, a soft roundish mass or cake by which the circulation is carried on between the parent and the fetus.

2. The part of a plant or fruit to which the seeds are attached.

Placental

PLACEN'TAL, adjective Pertaining to the placenta.

Placentation

PLACENTA'TION, noun In botany, the disposition of the cotyledons or lobes in the vegetation or germination of seeds.

Placer

PLA'CER, noun One who places, locates or sets.

Placid

PLAC'ID, adjective [Latin placidus, from placo, to appease.]

1. Gentle; quiet; undisturbed; equable; as a placid motion of the spirits.

2. Serene; mild; unruffled; indicating peace of mind; as a placid countenance or smile.

3. Calm; tranquil; serene; not stormy; as a placid sky.

4. Calm; quiet; unruffled; as a placid stream.

Placidly

PLAC'IDLY, adverb Mildly; calmly; quietly; without disturbance or passion.

Placidness

PLAC'IDNESS, noun Calmness; quiet; tranquillity; unruffled state.

1. Mildness; gentleness; sweetness of disposition.

Placit

PLAC'IT, noun [Latin placitum, that which pleases, a decree, from placeo, to please.] A decree or determination. [Not in use.]

Placket

PLACK'ET, noun A petticoat. If this is the sense of the word in Shakespeare, it is a derivative. The word signifies the opening of the garment; but it is nearly or wholly obsolete.

Plad

PLAD, noun [qu. W. plaid, a partition; diversity of colors being often named from dividing.]

A striped or variegated cloth worn by the highlanders in Scotland. It is a narrow woolen stuff worn round the waist or on the shoulders, reaching to the knees, and in cold weather to the feet. It is worn by both sexes.

Plagiarism

PLA'GIARISM, noun [from plagiary.] The act of purloining another man's literary works, or introducing passages from another man's writings and putting them off as one's own; literary theft.

Plagiarist

PLA'GIARIST, noun One that purloins the writings of another and puts them off as his own.

Plagiary

PLA'GIARY, noun [Latin plagium, a kidnapping, probably from plagoe, nets, toils, that which is layed or spread, from the root of Eng. lay. The Latin plaga, a stroke, is the same word differently applied, a laying on.]

1. A thief in literature; one that purloins another's writings and offers them to the public as his own.

2. The crime of literary theft. [Not used.]

PLA'GIARY, adjective Stealing men; kidnapping. [Not used.]

1. Practicing literary theft.

Plague

PLAGUE, noun plag. [Latin plaga, a stroke; Gr. See Lick and Lay. The primary sense is a stroke or striking. So afflict is from the root of flog, and probably of the same family as plague ]

1. Any thing troublesome or vexatious; but in this sense, applied to the vexations we suffer from men, and not to the unavoidable evils inflicted on us by Divine Providence. The application of the word to the latter, would now be irreverent and reproachful.

2. A pestilential disease; an acute, malignant and contagious disease that often prevails in Egypt, Syria and Turkey, and has at times infected the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality.

3. A state of misery. Psalms 38:1.

4. Any great natural evil or calamity; as the ten plagues of Egypt.

PLAGUE, verb transitive plag.

1. To infest with disease, calamity or natural evil of any kind.

Thus were they plagued

And worn with famine.

2. To vex; to tease; to harass; to trouble; to embarrass; a very general and indefinite signification.

If her nature be so,

That she will plague the man that loves her most--

Plagueful

PLAGUEFUL, adjective Abounding with plagues; infected with plagues.

Plaguily

PLAGUILY, adverb Vexatiously; in a manner to vex, harass or embarrass; greatly; horribly. [In vulgar use.]

Plaguy

PLAGUY, adjective Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting. [Vulgar.]

Plaice

PLAICE

PLAID

PLAIN, adjective [Latin planus; splendor. Gr. to wander.]

1. Smooth; even; level; flat; without elevations and depressions; not rough; as plain ground or land; a plain surface. In this sense, in philosophical writings, it is written plane.

2. Open; clear.

Our troops beat an army in plain fight and open field.

3. Void of ornament; simple; as a plain dress.

Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.

4. Artless; simple; unlearned; without disguise, cunning or affectation; without refinement; as men of the plainer sort.

Genesis 25:1.

Plain but pious christians--

5. Artless; simple; unaffected; unembellished; as a plain tale or narration.

6. Honestly undisguised; open; frank; sincere; unreserved. I will tell you the plain truth.

Give me leave to be plain with you.

7. Mere; bare; as a plain knave or fool.

8. Evident to the understanding; clear; manifest; not obscure; as plain words or language; a plain difference; a plain argument.

It is plain in the history, that Esau was never subject to Jacob.

9. Not much varied by modulations; as a plain song or tune.

10. Not high seasoned; not rich; not luxuriously dressed; as a plain diet.

11. Not ornamented with figures; as plain muslin.

12. Not dyed.

13. Not difficult; not embarrassing; as a plain case in law.

14. Easily seen or discovered; not obscure or difficult to be found; as a plain road or path. Our coarse is very plain. Psalms 27:1.

A plain or plane figure, in geometry, is a uniform surface, from every point of whose perimeter right lines may be drawn to every other point in the same.

A plain figure, in geometry, is a surface in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface.

A plain angle, is one contained under two lines or surfaces, in contradistinction to a solid angle.

PLAIN, adverb Not obscurely; in a manner to be easily understood.

1. Distinctly; articulately; as, to speak plain. Mark 7:1.

2. With simplicity; artlessly; bluntly.

PLAIN, noun

1. Level land; usually, an open field with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as all the plain of Jordan. Genesis 13:10.

2. Field of battle.

PLAIN, verb transitive To level; to make plain or even on the surface.

PLAIN, verb intransitive [Latin plango.] To lament or wail. [Not used.] [See Complain.]

Plaid

PLAID, see plad

Plain

PLAIN, a. [L. planus; splendor. Gr. to wander.] 1. Smooth; even; level; flat; without elevations and depressions; not rough; as plain ground or land; a plain surface. In this sense, in philosophical writings, it is written plane.2. Open; clear. Our troops beat an army in plain fight and open field.3. Void of ornament; simple; as a plain dress. Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.4. Artless; simple; unlearned; without disguise, cunning or affectation; without refinement; as men of the plainer sort. Gen. 25. Plain but pious christians--5. Artless; simple; unaffected; unembellished; as a plain tale or narration.6. Honestly undisguised; open; frank; sincere; unreserved. I will tell you the plain truth. Give me leave to be plain with you.7. Mere; bare; as a plain knave or fool.8. Evident to the understanding; clear; manifest; not obscure; as plain words or language; a plain difference; a plain argument. It is plain in the history, that Esau was never subject to Jacob.9. Not much varied by modulations; as a plain song or tune. 10. Not high seasoned; not rich; not luxuriously dressed; as a plain diet.

11. Not ornamented with figures; as plain muslin.

12. Not dyed.

13. Not difficult; not embarrassing; as a plain case in law.

14. Easily seen or discovered; not obscure or difficult to be found; as a plain road or path. Our coarse is very plain. Ps.27.

A plain or plane figure, in geometry, is a uniform surface, from every point of whose perimeter right lines may be drawn to every other point in the same.

A plain figure, in geometry, is a surface in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface.

A plain angle, is one contained under two lines or surfaces, in contradistinction to a solid angle.

PLAIN, adv. Not obscurely; in a manner to be easily understood. 1. Distinctly; articulately; as, to speak plain. Mark 7.2. With simplicity; artlessly; bluntly. PLAIN, n. 1. Level land; usually, an open field with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as all the plain of Jordan. Gen.13.2. Field of battle. PLAIN, v.t. To level; to make plain or even on the surface.

PLAIN, v.i. [L. plango.] To lament or wail. [Not used.] [See Complain.]

Plain-Dealing

PLAIN-DE'ALING, adjective [plain and deal.] Dealing or communicating with frankness and sincerity; honest; open; speaking and acting without art; as a plain-dealing man.

PLAIN-DE'ALING, noun A speaking or communicating with openness and sincerity; management without art, stratagem or disguise; sincerity.

Plain-Hearted

PLA'IN-HE'ARTED, adjective Having a sincere heart; communicating without art, reserve or hypocrisy; of a frank disposition.

Plain-Heartedness

PLAIN-HE'ARTEDNESS, noun Frankness of disposition; sincerity.

Plain-Song

PLA'IN-SONG, noun The plain unvaried chant of churches; so called in contradistinction from the prick-song, or variegated music sung by note.

Plain-Spoken

PLA'IN-SPOKEN, adjective Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity.

Plain-Work

PLA'IN-WORK, noun Plain needlework, as distinguished from embroidery.

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; sincerely; as, deal plainly with me.

4. In earnest; fairly.

5. In a manner to be easily seen or comprehended.

Thou shalt write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly Deuteronomy 27:8.

6. Evidently; clearly; not obscurely. The doctrines of grace are plainly taught in the Scriptures.

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 frankness.

Your plainness and your shortness please me well.

3. Artlessness; simplicity; candor; as unthinking plainness

4. Clearness; openness; sincerity.

Seeing then we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. 2 Corinthians 3:12.

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; complaint; audible expression of sorrow.

From inward grief

His bursting passion into plaints thus pour'd.

2. Complaint; representation made of injury or wrong done.

There are three just grounds of war with Spain; one of plaints; two upon defense.

3. In law, a private memorial tendered to a court, in which the person sets forth his cause of action.

4. In law, a complaint; a formal accusation exhibited by a private person against an offender for a breach of law or a public offense.

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 sense, for plaintive, but the use is not authorized.]

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 plaintive son.

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 of hair; a tress.

PLAIT, verb transitive To fold; to double in narrow streaks; as, to plait a gown or a sleeve.

1. To braid; to interweave strands; as, to plait the hair.

2. To entangle; to involve.

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, noun

1. 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 the word is applied particularly to the model of a building, showing the form, extent and divisions in miniature, and it may be applied to the draught or representation of any projected work on paper or on a plain surface; as the plan of a town or city, or of a harbor or fort. The form of a machine in miniature, is called a model.

2. A scheme devised; a project; the form of something to be done existing in the mind, with the several parts adjusted in idea, expressed in words or committed to writing; as the plan of a constitution of government; the plan of a treaty; the plan of an expedition.

PLAN, verb transitive To form a draught or representation of any intended work.

1. To scheme; to devise; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country; to plan a reduction of taxes or of the national debt.

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 any of the curves described on the celestial sphere; as the plane of the ecliptic; the plane of a planet's orbit; the plane of a great circle.

2. In mechanics. [See Plain figure.]

3. In joinery and cabinet work, an instrument consisting of a smooth piece of wood, with an aperture, through which passes obliquely a piece of edged steel or chisel, used in paring or smoothing boards or wood of any kind.

PLANE, verb transitive To make smooth; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of a board or other piece of wood by the use of a plane

1. To free from inequalities of surface.