PLANIMETRIC — PLEASANTLY NWAD PLANIMETRIC.1

PLANIMETRIC, PLANIMETRICAL, a. Pertaining to the mensuration of plain surfaces. NWAD PLANIMETRIC.1

PLANIMETRY, n. [L. planus, plain, and Gr. to measure.] NWAD PLANIMETRY.1

The mensuration of plain surfaces, or that part of geometry which regards lines and plain figures, without considering their highth or depth. NWAD PLANIMETRY.2

PLANIPETALOUS, a. [L. planus, plain, and Gr. a petal.] NWAD PLANIPETALOUS.1

In botany, flat-leafed, as when the small flowers are hollow only at the bottom, but flat upwards, as in dandelion and succory. NWAD PLANIPETALOUS.2

PLANISH, v.t. [from plane.] To make smooth or plain; to polish; used by manufacturers. NWAD PLANISH.1

PLANISHED, pp. Made smooth. NWAD PLANISHED.1

PLANISHING, ppr. Making smooth; polishing. NWAD PLANISHING.1

PLANISPHERE, n. [L. planus, plain, and sphere.] A sphere projected on a plane, in which sense, maps in which are exhibited the meridians and other circles, are planispheres. NWAD PLANISPHERE.1

PLANK, n. A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. In America, broad pieces of sawed timber which are not more than an inch or an inch and a quarter thick, are called boards; like pieces from an inch and a half to three or four inches thick, are called planks. Sometimes pieces more than four inches thick are called planks. NWAD PLANK.1

PLANK, v.t. To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. NWAD PLANK.2

PLANNED, pp. Devised; schemed. NWAD PLANNED.1

PLANNER, n. One who plans or forms a plan; a projector. NWAD PLANNER.1

PLANNING, ppr. Scheming; devising; making a plan. NWAD PLANNING.1

PLANO-CONICAL, a. [plain and conical.] NWAD PLANO-CONICAL.1

Plain or level on one side and conical on the other. NWAD PLANO-CONICAL.2

PLANO-CONVEX, a. [plain and convex.] Plain or flat on one side and convex on the other; as a plano-convex lens. NWAD PLANO-CONVEX.1

PLANOHORIZONTAL, a. Having a level horizontal surface or position. NWAD PLANOHORIZONTAL.1

PLANO-SUBULATE, a. [See Subulate.] Smooth and awl-shaped. NWAD PLANO-SUBULATE.1

PLANT, n. [L. planta; splendeo, splendor.] NWAD PLANT.1

1. A vegetable; an organic body, destitute of sense and spontaneous motion, adhering to another body in such a manner as to draw from it its nourishment, and having the power of propagating itself by seeds; “whose seed is in itself.” Genesis 1:11-12. This definition may not be perfectly correct, as it respects all plants, for some marine plants grow without being attached to any fixed body. NWAD PLANT.2

The woody or dicotyledonous plants consist of three parts; the bark or exterior coat, which covers the wood; the wood which is hard and constitutes the principal part; and the pith or center of the stem. In monocotyledonous plants, the ligneous or fibrous parts, and the pithy or parenchymatous, are equally distributed through the whole internal substance; and in the lower plants, funguses, sea weed, etc. the substance is altogether parenchymatous. By means of proper vessels, the nourishing juices are distributed to every part of the plant. In its most general sense, plant comprehends all vegetables, trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, etc. In popular language, the word is generally applied to the smaller species of vegetables. NWAD PLANT.3

2. A sapling. NWAD PLANT.4

3. In Scripture, a child; a descendant; the inhabitant of a country. Psalm 144:12; Jeremiah 48:32. NWAD PLANT.5

4. The sole of the foot. [Little used.] NWAD PLANT.6

Sea-plant, a plant that grows in the sea or in salt water; sea weed. NWAD PLANT.7

Sensitive plant, a plant that shrinks on being touched, the mimosa. NWAD PLANT.8

PLANT, v.t. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maiz. NWAD PLANT.9

1. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree or a vegetable with roots. NWAD PLANT.10

2. To engender; to set the germ of any thing that may increase. NWAD PLANT.11

It engenders choler, planteth anger. NWAD PLANT.12

3. To set; to fix. NWAD PLANT.13

His standard planted on Laurentum’s towers. NWAD PLANT.14

4. To settle; to fix the first inhabitants; to establish; as, to plant a colony. NWAD PLANT.15

5. To furnish with plants; to lay out and prepare with plants; as, to plant a garden or an orchard. NWAD PLANT.16

6. To set and direct or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort. NWAD PLANT.17

7. To introduce and establish; as, to plant christianity among the heathen. NWAD PLANT.18

I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 1 Corinthians 3:6. NWAD PLANT.19

8. To unite to Christ and fix in a state of fellowship with him. Psalm 92:13. NWAD PLANT.20

PLANT, v.i. To perform the act of planting. NWAD PLANT.21

PLANTABLE, a. Capable of being planted. NWAD PLANTABLE.1

PLANTAGE, n. [L. plantago.] An herb, or herbs in general. [Not in use.] NWAD PLANTAGE.1

PLANTAIN, n. [L. plantago.] A plant of the genus Plantago, of several species. The water plantain is of the genus Alisma. NWAD PLANTAIN.1

PLANTAIN, PLANTAIN-TREE, n. A tree of the genus Musa, the most remarkable species of which are, the paradisiaca or plantain, and the sapietum or banana tree. The plantain rises with a soft stem fifteen or twenty feet high, and the fruit is a substitute for bread. NWAD PLANTAIN.2

PLANTAL, a. Belonging to plants. [Not used.] NWAD PLANTAL.1

PLANTATION, n. [L. plantatio, from planto, to plant.] NWAD PLANTATION.1

1. The act of planting or setting in the earth for growth. NWAD PLANTATION.2

2. The place planted; applied to ground planted with trees, as an orchard or the like. NWAD PLANTATION.3

3. In the United States and the West Indies, a cultivated estate; a farm. In the United States, this word is applied to an estate, a tract of land occupied and cultivated, in those states only where the labor is performed by slaves, and where the land is more or less appropriated to the culture of tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton, that is, from Maryland to Georgia inclusive, on the Atlantic, and in the western states where the land is appropriated to the same articles or to the culture of the sugar cane. From Maryland, northward and eastward, estates in land are called farms. NWAD PLANTATION.4

4. An original settlement in a new country; a town or village planted. NWAD PLANTATION.5

While these plantations were forming in Connecticut-- NWAD PLANTATION.6

5. A colony. NWAD PLANTATION.7

6. A first planting; introduction; establishment; as the plantation of christianity in England. NWAD PLANTATION.8

PLANT-CANE, n. In the West Indies, the original plants of the sugar cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut. NWAD PLANT-CANE.1

PLANTED, pp. Set in the earth for propagation; set; fixed; introduced; established. NWAD PLANTED.1

1. Furnished with seeds or plants for growth; as a planted field. NWAD PLANTED.2

2. Furnished with the first inhabitants; settled; as territory planted with colonists. NWAD PLANTED.3

3. Filled or furnished with what is new. NWAD PLANTED.4

A man in all the world’s new fashion planted. [See Def. 3.] NWAD PLANTED.5

PLANTER, n. One that plants, sets, introduces or establishes; as a planter of maiz; a planter of vines; the planters of a colony. NWAD PLANTER.1

1. One that settles in a new or uncultivated territory; as the first planters in Virginia. NWAD PLANTER.2

2. One who owns a plantation; used in the West Indies and southern states of America. NWAD PLANTER.3

3. One that introduces and establishes. NWAD PLANTER.4

The apostles were the first planters of christianity. NWAD PLANTER.5

PLANTERSHIP, n. The business of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the West Indies. NWAD PLANTERSHIP.1

PLANTICLE, n. A young plant or plant in embryo. NWAD PLANTICLE.1

PLANTING, ppr. Setting in the earth for propagation; setting; settling; introducing; establishing. NWAD PLANTING.1

PLANTING, n. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc. NWAD PLANTING.2

PLANT-LOUSE, n. An insect that infests plants; a vine fretter; the puceron. NWAD PLANT-LOUSE.1

PLASH, n. [Gr. superabundant moisture.] NWAD PLASH.1

1. A small collection of standing water; a puddle. NWAD PLASH.2

2. The branch of a tree partly cut or lopped and bound to other branches. NWAD PLASH.3

PLASH, v.i. To dabble in water; usually splash. NWAD PLASH.4

PLASH, v.t. [L. plico, to fold.] To interweave branches; as, to plash a hedge or quicksets. [In New England, to splice.] NWAD PLASH.5

PLASHING, ppr. Cutting and interweaving, as branches in a hedge. NWAD PLASHING.1

PLASHING, n. The act or operation of cutting and lopping small trees and interweaving them, as in hedges. NWAD PLASHING.2

PLASHY, a. Watery; abounding with puddles. NWAD PLASHY.1

PLASM, n. [Gr. to form.] A mold or matrix in which any thing is cast or formed to a particular shape. [Little used.] NWAD PLASM.1

PLASMA, n. A silicious mineral of a color between grass green and leek green, occurring in angular pieces in beds, associated with common chalcedony, and among the ruins of Rome. NWAD PLASMA.1

PLASMATIC, PLASMATICAL, a. Giving shape; having the power of giving form. NWAD PLASMATIC.1

PLASTER, n. [L. emplastrum; Gr. to daub or smear, properly to lay or spread on; to daub or to fashion, mold or shape.] NWAD PLASTER.1

1. A composition of lime, water and sand, well mixed into a kind of paste and used for coating walls and partitions of houses. This composition when dry becomes hard, but still retains the name of plaster. Plaster is sometimes made of different materials, as chalk, gypsum, etc. and is sometimes used to parget the whole surface of a building. NWAD PLASTER.2

2. In pharmacy, an external application of a harder consistence than an ointment, to be spread, according to different circumstances, either on linen or leather. NWAD PLASTER.3

Plaster of Paris, a composition of several species of gypsum dug near Montmartre, near Paris in France, used in building and in casting busts and statues. In popular language, this name is applied improperly to plaster-stone, or to any species of gypsum. NWAD PLASTER.4

PL`ASTER, v.t. To overlay with plaster, as the partitions of a house, walls, etc. NWAD PLASTER.5

1. To cover with plaster, as a wound. NWAD PLASTER.6

2. In popular language, to smooth over; to cover or conceal defects or irregularities. NWAD PLASTER.7

PLASTERED, pp. Overlaid with plaster. NWAD PLASTERED.1

PLASTERER, n. One that overlays with plaster. NWAD PLASTERER.1

1. One that makes figures in plaster. NWAD PLASTERER.2

PLASTERING, ppr. Covering with or laying on plaster. NWAD PLASTERING.1

PL`ASTERING, n. The act or operation of overlaying with plaster. NWAD PLASTERING.2

1. The plaster-work of a building; a covering of plaster. NWAD PLASTERING.3

PLASTER-STONE, n. Gypsum, which see. This when pulverized is extensively used as a manure. NWAD PLASTER-STONE.1

PLASTIC, a. [Gr. to form.] Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as the plastic hand of the Creator; the plastic virtue of nature. NWAD PLASTIC.1

PLASTICITY, n. The quality of giving form or shape to matter. NWAD PLASTICITY.1

PLASTRON, n. [See Plaster.] A piece of leather stuffed; used by fencers to defend the body against pushes. NWAD PLASTRON.1

PLAT, v.t. [from plait, or plat, flat.] NWAD PLAT.1

To weave; to form by texture. Matthew 27:29. NWAD PLAT.2

PLAT, PLATTING, n. Work done by platting or interweaving. NWAD PLAT.3

PLAT, n. [L. latus; or from the root of place.] A small piece of ground, usually a portion of flat even ground; as a flowery plat; a plat of willows. NWAD PLAT.4

PLAT, a. Plain; flat. [Not used.] NWAD PLAT.5

PLAT, adv. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Not used.] NWAD PLAT.6

1. Smoothly; evenly. [Not used.] NWAD PLAT.7

PLATANE, n. [L. platanus.] The planetree, which see. NWAD PLATANE.1

PLATBAND, n. A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or the side of a parterre. NWAD PLATBAND.1

1. In architecture, a flat square molding whose highth much exceeds its projecture, such as the faces of an architrave. NWAD PLATBAND.2

2. The lintel of a door or window. NWAD PLATBAND.3

3. A list or fillet between the flutings of a column. NWAD PLATBAND.4

PLATE, n. [L. Latus, with the radical sense of laid, spread.] NWAD PLATE.1

1. A piece of metal, flat or extended in breadth. NWAD PLATE.2

2. Armor of plate, composed of broad pieces, and thus distinguished from mail. NWAD PLATE.3

3. A piece of wrought silver, as a dish or other shallow vessel; hence, vessels of silver; wrought silver in general. Plate, by the laws of some states, is subject to a tax by the ounce. NWAD PLATE.4

4. A small shallow vessel, made of silver or other metal, or of earth glazed and baked, from which provisions are eaten at table. A wooden plate is called a trencher. NWAD PLATE.5

5. The prize given for the best horse in a race. NWAD PLATE.6

6. In architecture, the piece of timber which supports the ends of the rafters. [See Platform.] NWAD PLATE.7

PLATE, v.t. To cover or overlay with plate or with metal; used particularly of silver; as plated vessels. NWAD PLATE.8

1. To arm with plate or metal for defense; as, to plate sin with gold. NWAD PLATE.9

Why plated in habiliments of war? NWAD PLATE.10

2. To adorn with place; as a plated harness. NWAD PLATE.11

3. To beat into thin flat pieces or lamens. NWAD PLATE.12

PLATED, pp. Covered or adorned with plate; armed with plate; beaten into plates. NWAD PLATED.1

PLATEN, n. [from its flatness.] Among printers, the flat part of a press by which the impression is made. NWAD PLATEN.1

PLATEY, a. Like a plate; flat. NWAD PLATEY.1

PLATFORM, n. [plat, flat, form.] The sketch of any thing horizontally delineated; the ichnography. NWAD PLATFORM.1

1. A place laid out after any model. NWAD PLATFORM.2

2. In the military art, an elevation of earth or a floor of wood or stone, on which cannons are mounted to fire on an enemy. NWAD PLATFORM.3

3. In architecture, a row of beams or a piece of timber which supports the timber-work of a roof, and lying on the top of the wall. NWAD PLATFORM.4

This in New England is called the plate. NWAD PLATFORM.5

4. A kind of terrace or broad smooth open walk on the top of a building, as in the oriental houses. NWAD PLATFORM.6

5. In ships, the orlop. [See Orlop.] NWAD PLATFORM.7

6. Any number of planks or other materials forming a floor for any purpose. NWAD PLATFORM.8

7. A plan; a scheme; ground-work. NWAD PLATFORM.9

8. In some of the New England states, an ecclesiastical constitution, or a plan for the government of churches; as the Cambridge or Saybrook platform. NWAD PLATFORM.10

Platic aspect, in astrology, a ray cast from one planet to another, not exactly, but within the orbit of its own light. NWAD PLATFORM.11

PLATINA, PLATINUM, n. A metal discovered in the mines of Choco in Peru, nearly of the color of silver, but less bright, and the heaviest of the metals. Its specific gravity is to that of water as 23 to 1. It is harder than iron, undergoes no alteration in air, resists the action of acids and alkalies, is very ductile and capable of being rolled into thin plates. NWAD PLATINA.1

PLATING, ppr. Overlaying with plate or with a metal; beating into thin lamens. NWAD PLATING.1

PLATING, n. The art or operation of covering any thing with plate or with a metal, particularly of overlaying a baser metal with a thin plate of silver. The coating of silver is soldered to the metal with tin or a mixture of three parts of silver with one of brass. NWAD PLATING.2

PLATINIFEROUS, a. [platina and fero, to produce.] NWAD PLATINIFEROUS.1

Producing patina; as platiniferous sand. NWAD PLATINIFEROUS.2

PLATONIC, a. Pertaining to Plato the philosopher, or to his philosophy, his school or his opinions. NWAD PLATONIC.1

Platonic love, is a pure spiritual affection subsisting between the sexes, unmixed with carnal desires, and regarding the mind only and its excellencies; a species of love for which Plato was a warm advocate. NWAD PLATONIC.2

Platonic year, the great year, or a period of time determines by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space of time in which the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes. This revolution, which is calculated by the precession of the equinoxes, is accomplished in about 25,000 years. NWAD PLATONIC.3

PLATONICALLY, adv. After the manner of Plato. NWAD PLATONICALLY.1

PLATONISM, n. The philosophy of Plato, consisting of three branches, theology, physics and mathematics. Under theology is included moral philosophy. The foundation of Plato’s theology is the opinion that there are two eternal, primary, independent and incorruptible principles or causes of all things, and matter, from which all things are made. It was a fundamental maxim with him that from nothing, nothing can proceed. While therefore he held God to be the maker of the universe, he held matter, the substance of which the universe was made, to be eternal. NWAD PLATONISM.1

PLATONIST, PLATONIZER, n. One that adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato. NWAD PLATONIST.1

PLATONIZE, v.i. To adopt the opinions or philosophy of Plato. NWAD PLATONIZE.1

PLATONIZE, v.t. To explain on the principles of the Platonic school, or to accommodate to those principles. NWAD PLATONIZE.2

PLATONIZED, pp. Accommodated to the philosophy of Plato. NWAD PLATONIZED.1

PLATONIZING, ppr. Adopting the principles of Plato; accommodating to the principles of the Platonic school. NWAD PLATONIZING.1

PLATOON, n. A small square body of soldiers or musketeers, drawn out of a battalion of foot when they form a hollow square, to strengthen the angles; or a small body acting together, but separate from the main body; as, to fire by platoons. NWAD PLATOON.1

PLATTER, n. [from plate.] A large shallow dish for holding the provisions of a table. NWAD PLATTER.1

1. One that plats or forms by weaving. [See Plat.] NWAD PLATTER.2

PLATTER-FACED, a. Having a broad face. NWAD PLATTER-FACED.1

PLATTING, ppr. Weaving; forming by texture. NWAD PLATTING.1

PLATYPUS, n. A quadruped of New Holland, whose jaws are elongated into the shape of a duck’s bill. The body is covered with thick hair and the feet are webbed. NWAD PLATYPUS.1

This animal has been arranged with the Mammalia, but it is now presumed to be oviparous; at least its breasts have not hitherto been observed. NWAD PLATYPUS.2

PLAUDIT, n. [L. plaudo, to praise, said to be taken from plaudite, a demand of applause by players when they left the stage.] NWAD PLAUDIT.1

Applause; praise bestowed. NWAD PLAUDIT.2

PLAUSIBILITY, n. s as z. [See Plausible.] Speciousness; superficial appearance of right. NWAD PLAUSIBILITY.1

PLAUSIBLE, a. s as z. [L. plausibilis, from plaudo, to clap hands in token of approbation; laus, laudo; Eng. loud.] NWAD PLAUSIBLE.1

1. That may be applauded; that may gain favor or approbation; hence, superficially pleasing; apparently right; specious; popular; as a plausible argument; a plausible pretext; a plausible doctrine. NWAD PLAUSIBLE.2

2. Using specious arguments or discourse; as a plausible man. NWAD PLAUSIBLE.3

PLAUSIBLENESS, n. Speciousness; show of right or propriety; as the plausibleness of Arminianism. NWAD PLAUSIBLENESS.1

PLAUSIBLY, adv. With fair show; speciously; in a matter adapted to gain favor or approbation. NWAD PLAUSIBLY.1

They could talk plausibly about what they did not understand. NWAD PLAUSIBLY.2

PLAUSIVE, a. Applauding; manifesting praise. NWAD PLAUSIVE.1

1. Plausible. NWAD PLAUSIVE.2

PLAY, v.i. NWAD PLAY.1

1. To use any exercise for pleasure or recreation; to do something not as a task or for profit, but for amusement; as, to play at cricket. NWAD PLAY.2

The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Exodus 32:6. NWAD PLAY.3

2. To sport; to frolick; to frisk. NWAD PLAY.4

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, NWAD PLAY.5

Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? NWAD PLAY.6

3. To toy; to act with levity. NWAD PLAY.7

4. To trifle; to act wantonly and thoughtlessly. NWAD PLAY.8

Men are apt to play with their healths and their lives as they do with their clothes. NWAD PLAY.9

5. To do something fanciful; to give a fanciful turn to; as, to play upon words. NWAD PLAY.10

6. To make sport, or practice sarcastic merriment. NWAD PLAY.11

I would make use of it rather to play upon those I despise, than trifle with those I love. NWAD PLAY.12

7. To mock; to practice illusion. NWAD PLAY.13

Art thou alive, NWAD PLAY.14

Or is it fancy plays upon our eyesight? NWAD PLAY.15

8. To contend in a game; as, to play at cards or dice; to play for diversion; to play for money. NWAD PLAY.16

9. To practice a trick or deception. NWAD PLAY.17

His mother played false with a smith. NWAD PLAY.18

10. To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute, a violin or a harpsichord. NWAD PLAY.19

Play, my friend, and charm the charmer. NWAD PLAY.20

11. To move, or to move with alternate dilatation and contraction. NWAD PLAY.21

The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play. NWAD PLAY.22

12. To operate; to act. The engines play against a fire. NWAD PLAY.23

13. To move irregularly; to wanton. NWAD PLAY.24

Ev’n as the waving sedges play with wind. NWAD PLAY.25

The setting sun NWAD PLAY.26

Plays on their shining arms and burnish’d helmets. NWAD PLAY.27

All fame is foreign, but of true desert, NWAD PLAY.28

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. NWAD PLAY.29

14. To act a part on the stage; to personate a character. NWAD PLAY.30

A lord will hear you play to-night. NWAD PLAY.31

15. To represent a standing character. NWAD PLAY.32

Courts are theaters where some men play. NWAD PLAY.33

16. To act in any particular character; as, to play the fool; to play the woman; to play the man. NWAD PLAY.34

17. To move in any manner; to move one way and another; as any part of a machine. NWAD PLAY.35

PLAY, v.t. To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon or a fire-engine. NWAD PLAY.36

1. To use an instrument of music; as, to play the flute or the organ. NWAD PLAY.37

2. To act a sportive part or character. NWAD PLAY.38

Nature here NWAD PLAY.39

Wanton’d as in her prime, and play’d at will NWAD PLAY.40

Her virgin fancies. NWAD PLAY.41

3. To act or perform by representing a character; as, to play a comedy; to play the part of king Lear. NWAD PLAY.42

4. To act; to perform; as, to play our parts well on the stage of life. NWAD PLAY.43

5. To perform in contest for amusement or for a prize; as, to play a game at whist. NWAD PLAY.44

To play off, to display; to show; to put in exercise; as, to play off tricks. NWAD PLAY.45

To play on or upon, to deceive; to mock or to trifle with. NWAD PLAY.46

1. To give a fanciful turn to. NWAD PLAY.47

PLAY, n. Any exercise or series of actions intended for pleasure, amusement or diversion, as at cricket or quoit, or at blind man’s buff. NWAD PLAY.48

1. Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols. NWAD PLAY.49

Two gentle fawns at play. NWAD PLAY.50

2. Game; gaming; practice of contending for victory, for amusement or for a prize, as at dice, cards or billiards. NWAD PLAY.51

3. Practice in any contest; as sword-play. NWAD PLAY.52

He was resolved not to speak distinctly, knowing his best play to be in the dark. NWAD PLAY.53

John naturally loved rough play. NWAD PLAY.54

4. Action; use; employment; office. NWAD PLAY.55

--But justifies the next who comes in play. NWAD PLAY.56

5. Practice; action; manner of acting in contest or negotiation; as fair play; foul play. NWAD PLAY.57

6. A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action. NWAD PLAY.58

A play ought to be a just image of human nature. NWAD PLAY.59

7. Representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, to be at the play. He attends every play. NWAD PLAY.60

8. Performance on an instrument of music. NWAD PLAY.61

9. Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as the play of a wheel or piston. NWAD PLAY.62

10. State of agitation or discussion. NWAD PLAY.63

Many have been sav’d, and many may, NWAD PLAY.64

Who never heard this question brought in play. NWAD PLAY.65

11. Room for motion. NWAD PLAY.66

The joints are let exactly into one another, that they have no play between them. NWAD PLAY.67

12. Liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth. Let the genius have free play. NWAD PLAY.68

PLAYBILL, n. A printed advertisement of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors. NWAD PLAYBILL.1

PLAYBOOK, n. A book of dramatic compositions. NWAD PLAYBOOK.1

PLAY-DAY, PLAYING-DAY, n. A day given to play or diversion; a day exempt from work. NWAD PLAY-DAY.1

PLAYDEBT, n. A debt contracted by gaming. NWAD PLAYDEBT.1

PLAYED, pp. Acted; performed; put in motion. NWAD PLAYED.1

PLAYER, n. One who plays in any game or sport. NWAD PLAYER.1

1. An idler. NWAD PLAYER.2

2. An actor of dramatic scenes; one whose occupation is to imitate characters on the stage. NWAD PLAYER.3

3. A mimic. NWAD PLAYER.4

4. One who performs on an instrument of music. NWAD PLAYER.5

5. A gamester. NWAD PLAYER.6

6. One that acts a part in a certain manner. NWAD PLAYER.7

PLAYFELLOW, n. A companion in amusements or sports. NWAD PLAYFELLOW.1

PLAYFUL, a. Sportive; given to levity; as a playful child. NWAD PLAYFUL.1

1. Indulging a sportive fancy; as a playful genius. NWAD PLAYFUL.2

PLAYFULLY, adv. In a sportive manner. NWAD PLAYFULLY.1

PLAYFULNESS, n. Sportiveness. NWAD PLAYFULNESS.1

PLAYGAME, n. Play of children. NWAD PLAYGAME.1

PLAYHOUSE, n. A house appropriated to the exhibition of dramatic compositions; a theater. NWAD PLAYHOUSE.1

PLAYMATE, n. A playfellow; a companion in diversions. NWAD PLAYMATE.1

PLAY-PLEASURE, n. Idle amusement. [Not used.] NWAD PLAY-PLEASURE.1

PLAYSOME, a. Playful; wanton. NWAD PLAYSOME.1

PLAYSOMENESS, n. Playfulness; wantonness. NWAD PLAYSOMENESS.1

PLAYTHING, n. A toy; any thing that serves to amuse. NWAD PLAYTHING.1

A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. NWAD PLAYTHING.2

PLAYWRIGHT, n. A maker of plays. NWAD PLAYWRIGHT.1

PLEA, n. [L. lis, litis.] NWAD PLEA.1

1. In law, that which is alleged by a party in support of his demand; but in a more limited and technical sense, the answer of the defendant to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant’s plea. Pleas are dilatory, or pleas to the action. Dilatory pleas, are to the jurisdiction of the court, to the disability of the plaintiff, or in abatement. Pleas to the action are an answer to the merits of the complaint, which confesses or denies it. Pleas that deny the plaintiff’s complaint or demand, are the general issue, which denies the whole declaration; or special pleas in bar, which state something which precludes the plaintiff’s right of recovery. NWAD PLEA.2

2. A cause in court; a lawsuit, or a criminal process; as the pleas of the crown; the court of common pleas. NWAD PLEA.3

The supreme judicial court shall have cognizance of pleas real, personal and mixed. NWAD PLEA.4

3. That which is alleged in defense or justification; an excuse; an apology; as the tyrant’s plea. NWAD PLEA.5

When such occasions are, NWAD PLEA.6

No plea must serve; ‘tis cruelty to spare. NWAD PLEA.7

4. Urgent prayer or entreaty. NWAD PLEA.8

PLEACH, v.t. [L. plico.] To bend; to interweave. [Not in use.] NWAD PLEACH.1

PLEAD, v.i. [See Plea.] In a general sense, to argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another. NWAD PLEAD.1

1. In law, to present an answer to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff’s declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that he ought not to recover in the suit. The plaintiff declares or alleges; the defendant pleads to his declaration. The king or the state prosecutes an offender, and the offender pleads not guilty, or confesses the charge. NWAD PLEAD.2

2. To urge reasons for or against; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead in his favor; to plead with a judge or with a father. NWAD PLEAD.3

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor! Job 16:21. NWAD PLEAD.4

3. To supplicate with earnestness. NWAD PLEAD.5

4. To urge; to press by operating on the passions. NWAD PLEAD.6

Since you can love, and yet your error see, NWAD PLEAD.7

The same resistless power may plead for me. NWAD PLEAD.8

PLEAD, v.t. To discuss, defend and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons offered to the tribunal or person who has the power of determining; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury. In this sense, argue is more generally used by lawyers. NWAD PLEAD.9

1. To allege or adduce in proof, support or vindication. The law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the rights of embassadors. NWAD PLEAD.10

2. To offer in excuse. NWAD PLEAD.11

I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of faults. NWAD PLEAD.12

3. To allege and offer in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; as, to plead usury; to plead a statute of limitations. NWAD PLEAD.13

4. In Scripture, to plead the cause of the righteous, as God, is to avenge or vindicate them against enemies, or to redress their grievances. Isaiah 51:22. NWAD PLEAD.14

PLEADABLE, a. That may be pleaded; that may be alleged in proof, defense or vindication; as a right or privilege pleadable at law. NWAD PLEADABLE.1

PLEADED, pp. Offered or urged in defense; alleged in proof or support. NWAD PLEADED.1

PLEADER, n. One who argues in a court of justice. NWAD PLEADER.1

1. One that forms pleas or pleadings; as a special pleader. NWAD PLEADER.2

2. One that offers reasons for or against; one that attempts to maintain by arguments. NWAD PLEADER.3

So fair a pleader any cause may gain. NWAD PLEADER.4

PLEADING, ppr. Offering in defense; supporting by arguments or reasons; supplicating. NWAD PLEADING.1

PLEADING, n. The art of supporting by arguments, or of reasoning to persuade. NWAD PLEADING.2

PLEADINGS, n. In law, the mutual altercations between the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, comprehending the declaration, count or narration of the plaintiff, the plea of the defendant in reply, the replication of the plaintiff to the defendant’s plea, the defendant’s rejoinder, the plaintiff’s sur-rejoinder, the defendant’s rebutter, the plaintiff’s sur-rebutter, etc. till the question is brought to issue, that is, to rest on a single point. NWAD PLEADINGS.1

PLEASANCE, n. plez’ance. [See Please.] Gayety; pleasantry; merriment. NWAD PLEASANCE.1

PLEASANT, a. plez’ant. NWAD PLEASANT.1

1. Pleasing; agreeable; grateful to the mind or to the senses; as a pleasant ride; a pleasant voyage; a pleasant view. Light is pleasant to the eye; an orange is pleasant to the taste; harmony is pleasant to the ear; a rose is pleasant to the smell. NWAD PLEASANT.2

How good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalm 133:1. NWAD PLEASANT.3

2. Cheerful; enlivening; as pleasant society or company. NWAD PLEASANT.4

3. Gay; lively; humorous; sportive; as a pleasant companion. NWAD PLEASANT.5

4. Trifling; adapted rather to mirth than use. NWAD PLEASANT.6

5. Giving pleasure; gratifying. NWAD PLEASANT.7

This word expresses less than delightful, to the mind, and delicious, to the taste. NWAD PLEASANT.8

PLEASANTLY, adv. plez’antly. In such a manner as to please or gratify. NWAD PLEASANTLY.1

1. Gayly; merrily; in good humor. NWAD PLEASANTLY.2

2. Lightly; ludicrously. NWAD PLEASANTLY.3