PLEASANTNESS — PLOWMAN NWAD PLEASANTNESS.1

PLEASANTNESS, n. plez’antness. State of being pleasant or agreeable; as the pleasantness of a situation. NWAD PLEASANTNESS.1

1. Cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; as the pleasantness of youth. NWAD PLEASANTNESS.2

PLEASANTRY, n. plez’antry. Gayety; merriment. NWAD PLEASANTRY.1

The harshness of reasoning is not a little softened and smoothed by the infusions of mirth and pleasantry. NWAD PLEASANTRY.2

1. Sprightly saying; lively talk; effusion of humor. NWAD PLEASANTRY.3

The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit. NWAD PLEASANTRY.4

PLEASE, v.t. s as z. [L. placere, placeo.] NWAD PLEASE.1

1. To excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to gratify; as, to please the taste; to please the mind. NWAD PLEASE.2

Their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem, Hamor’s son. Genesis 34:18. NWAD PLEASE.3

Leave such to trifle with more grace than ease, NWAD PLEASE.4

Whom folly pleases, and whose follies please. NWAD PLEASE.5

2. To satisfy; to content. NWAD PLEASE.6

What next I bring shall please NWAD PLEASE.7

Thy wish exactly to thy heart’s desire. NWAD PLEASE.8

3. To prefer; to have satisfaction in; to like; to choose. NWAD PLEASE.9

Many of our most skilful painters were pleased or recommend this author to me. NWAD PLEASE.10

To be pleased in or with, to approve; to have complacency in. Matthew 3:17. NWAD PLEASE.11

To please God, is to love his character and law and perform his will, so as to become the object of his approbation. NWAD PLEASE.12

They that are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:8. NWAD PLEASE.13

PLEASE, v.i. s as z. To like; to choose; to prefer. NWAD PLEASE.14

Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease NWAD PLEASE.15

Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. NWAD PLEASE.16

1. To condescend; to comply; to be pleased; a word of ceremony. NWAD PLEASE.17

Please you, lords, NWAD PLEASE.18

In sight of both our battles we may meet. NWAD PLEASE.19

The first words that I learnt were, to express my desire that he would please to give me my liberty. NWAD PLEASE.20

Please expresses less gratification than delight. NWAD PLEASE.21

PLEASED, pp. Gratified; affected with agreeable sensations or emotions. NWAD PLEASED.1

PLEASEMAN, n. An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. NWAD PLEASEMAN.1

PLEASER, n. One that pleases or gratifies; one that courts favor by humoring or flattering compliances or a show of obedience; as men-pleasers. Ephesians 6:6; Colossians 3:22. NWAD PLEASER.1

PLEASING, ppr. Gratifying; exciting agreeable sensations or emotions in. NWAD PLEASING.1

PLEASING, a. Giving pleasure or satisfaction; agreeable to the senses or to the mind; as a pleasing prospect; a pleasing reflection; pleasing manners. NWAD PLEASING.2

1. Gaining approbation. 1 John 3:22. NWAD PLEASING.3

PLEASING, n. The act of gratifying. NWAD PLEASING.4

PLEASINGLY, adv. In such a manner as to give pleasure. NWAD PLEASINGLY.1

PLEASINGNESS, n. The quality of giving pleasure. NWAD PLEASINGNESS.1

PLEASURABLE, a. plezh’urable. [from pleasure.] Pleasing; giving pleasure; affording gratification. NWAD PLEASURABLE.1

Planting of orchards is very profitable as well as pleasurable. NWAD PLEASURABLE.2

PLEASURABLY, adv. With pleasure; with gratification of the senses or the mind. NWAD PLEASURABLY.1

PLEASURABLENESS, n. The quality of giving pleasure. NWAD PLEASURABLENESS.1

PLEASURE, n. plezh’ur. NWAD PLEASURE.1

1. The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish or happiness produced by enjoyment or the expectation of good; opposed to pain. We receive pleasure from the indulgence of appetite; from the view of a beautiful landscape; from the harmony of sounds; from agreeable society; from the expectation of seeing an absent friend; from the prospect of gain or success of any kind. Pleasure, bodily and mental, carnal and spiritual, constitutes the whole of positive happiness, as pain constitutes the whole of misery. NWAD PLEASURE.2

Pleasure is properly positive excitement of the passions or the mind; but we give the name also to the absence of excitement, when that excitement is painful; as when we cease to labor, or repose after fatigue, or when the mind is tranquilized after anxiety or agitation. NWAD PLEASURE.3

Pleasure is susceptible of increase to any degree; but the word when unqualified, expresses less excitement or happiness than delight or joy. NWAD PLEASURE.4

2. Sensual or sexual gratification. NWAD PLEASURE.5

3. Approbation. NWAD PLEASURE.6

The Lord taketh pleasure in his people. Psalms 147:11; Psalms 149:4. NWAD PLEASURE.7

4. What the will dictates or prefers; will; choice; purpose; intention; command; as, use your pleasure. NWAD PLEASURE.8

Cyrus, he is my shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure. Isaiah 44:28. NWAD PLEASURE.9

My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. Isaiah 46:10. NWAD PLEASURE.10

5. A favor; that which pleases. NWAD PLEASURE.11

Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul. Acts 25:9. NWAD PLEASURE.12

6. Arbitrary will or choice. He can vary his scheme at pleasure. NWAD PLEASURE.13

PLEASURE, v.t. plezh’ur. To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify. [A word authorized by some good writers, but superfluous and not much used.] NWAD PLEASURE.14

PLEASURE-BOAT, n. A boat appropriated to sailing for amusement. NWAD PLEASURE-BOAT.1

PLEASURE-CARRIAGE, n. A carriage for pleasure. NWAD PLEASURE-CARRIAGE.1

PLEASUREFUL, a. Pleasant; agreeable. [Little used.] NWAD PLEASUREFUL.1

PLEASURE-GROUND, n. Ground laid out in an ornamental manner and appropriated to pleasure or amusement. NWAD PLEASURE-GROUND.1

PLEASURIST, n. A person devoted to worldly pleasure. [Little used.] NWAD PLEASURIST.1

PLEBEIAN, a. [L. plebeius, from plebs, the common people.] NWAD PLEBEIAN.1

1. Pertaining to the common people; vulgar; as plebeian minds; plebeian sports. NWAD PLEBEIAN.2

2. Consisting of common people; as a plebeian throng. NWAD PLEBEIAN.3

PLEBEIAN, n. One of the common people or lower ranks of men. [Usually applied to the common people of ancient Rome.] NWAD PLEBEIAN.4

PLEBEIANCE, n. The common people. [Not in use.] NWAD PLEBEIANCE.1

PLEDGE, n. [L. plico.] NWAD PLEDGE.1

1. Something put in pawn; that which is deposited with another as security for the repayment of money borrowed, or for the performance of some agreement or obligation; a pawn. A borrows ten pounds of B, and deposits his watch as a pledge that the money shall be repaid; and by repayment of the money, A redeems the pledge. NWAD PLEDGE.2

2. Any thing given or considered as a security for the performance of an act. Thus a man gives a word or makes a promise to another, which is received as a pledge for fulfillment. The mutual affection of husband and wife is a pledge for the faithful performance of the marriage covenant. Mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties. NWAD PLEDGE.3

3. A surety; a hostage. NWAD PLEDGE.4

4. In law, a gage or security real or personal, given for the repayment of money. It is of two kinds; vadium vivum, a living pledge, as when a man borrows money and grants an estate to be held by the pledgee, till the rents and profits shall refund the money, in which case the land or pledge is said to be living; or it is vadium mortuum, a dead pledge, called a mortgage. [See Mortgage.] NWAD PLEDGE.5

5. In law, bail; surety given for the prosecution of a suit, or for the appearance of a defendant, or for restoring goods taken in distress and replevied. The distress itself is also called a pledge, and the glove formerly thrown down by a champion in trial by battel, was a pledge by which the champion stipulated to encounter his antagonist in that trial. NWAD PLEDGE.6

6. A warrant to secure a person from injury in drinking. NWAD PLEDGE.7

To put in pledge, to pawn. NWAD PLEDGE.8

To hold in pledge, to keep as security. NWAD PLEDGE.9

PLEDGE, v.t. NWAD PLEDGE.10

1. To deposit in pawn; to deposit or leave in possession of a person something which is to secure the repayment of money borrowed, or the performance of some act. [This word is applied chiefly to the depositing of goods or personal property. When real estate is given as security we usually apply the word mortgage.] NWAD PLEDGE.11

2. To give as a warrant or security; as, to pledge one’s word or honor; to pledge one’s veracity. NWAD PLEDGE.12

3. To secure by a pledge. NWAD PLEDGE.13

I accept her, NWAD PLEDGE.14

And here to pledge my vow I give my hand. [Unusual.] NWAD PLEDGE.15

4. To invite to drink by accepting the cup or health after another. Or to warrant or be surety for a person that he shall receive no harm while drinking, or from the draught; a practice which originated among our ancestors in their rude state, and which was intended to secure the person from being stabbed while drinking, or from being poisoned by the liquor. In the first case, a by-stander pledges the person drinking; in the latter, the person drinking pledges his guest by drinking first, and then handing the cup to his guest. The latter practice is frequent among the common people in America to this day; the owner of the liquor taking the cup says to his friend, I pledge you, and drinks, then hands the cup to his guest; a remarkable instance of the power of habit, as the reason of the custom has long since ceased. NWAD PLEDGE.16

PLEDGED, pp. Deposited as security; given in warrant. NWAD PLEDGED.1

PLEDGEE, n. The person to whom any thing is pledged. NWAD PLEDGEE.1

PLEDGER, n. One that pledges or pawns any thing; one that warrants or secures. [Pledgor, in Blackstone, is not to be countenanced.] NWAD PLEDGER.1

1. One that accepts the invitation to drink after another, or that secures another by drinking. NWAD PLEDGER.2

PLEDGERY, n. A pledging; suretyship. [Not in use.] NWAD PLEDGERY.1

PLEDGET, n. [from folding or laying.] In surgery, a compress or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound to imbibe the matter discharged and keep it clean. NWAD PLEDGET.1

PLEDGING, ppr. Depositing in pawn or as security; giving warrant for security or safety. NWAD PLEDGING.1

PLEIADS, n. ple’yads. [L. Pleiades; Gr. to sail, as the rising of seven stars indicated the time of safe navigation.] NWAD PLEIADS.1

In astronomy, a cluster of seven stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. The Latins called them Vergilioe, from ver, spring, because of their rising about the vernal equinox. NWAD PLEIADS.2

PLENAL, a. [See Plenary.] Full. [Not used.] NWAD PLENAL.1

PLENARILY, adv. [from plenary.] Fully; completely. NWAD PLENARILY.1

PLENARINESS, n. Fullness; completeness. NWAD PLENARINESS.1

PLENARTY, n. The state of a benefice when occupied. NWAD PLENARTY.1

PLENARY, a. [L. plenus.] Full; entire; complete; as a plenary license; plenary consent; plenary indulgence. The plenary indulgence of the pope is an entire remission of penalties to all sins. NWAD PLENARY.1

PLENARY, n. Decisive procedure. [Not used.] NWAD PLENARY.2

PLENILUNARY, a. Relating to the full moon. NWAD PLENILUNARY.1

PLENILUNE, n. [L. plenilunium; plenus, full, and luna, moon.] NWAD PLENILUNE.1

The full moon. [Not used.] NWAD PLENILUNE.2

PLENIPOTENCE, n. [L. plenus, full, and potentia, power.] NWAD PLENIPOTENCE.1

Fullness or completeness of power. NWAD PLENIPOTENCE.2

PLENIPOTENT, a. [L. plenipotens, supra.] NWAD PLENIPOTENT.1

Possessing full power. NWAD PLENIPOTENT.2

PLENIPOTENTIARY, n. A person invested with full power to transact any business; usually, an embassador or envoy to a foreign court, furnished with full power to negotiate a treaty or to transact other business. NWAD PLENIPOTENTIARY.1

PLENIPOTENTIARY, a. Containing full power; as plenipotentiary license or authority. NWAD PLENIPOTENTIARY.2

PLENISH, for replenish, not used. NWAD PLENISH.1

PLENIST, n. [L. plenus.] One who maintains that all space is full of matter. NWAD PLENIST.1

PLENITUDE, n. [L. plenitudo, from plenus, full.] NWAD PLENITUDE.1

Fullness; as the plenitude of space. NWAD PLENITUDE.2

1. Repletion; animal fullness; plethora; redundancy of blood and humors in the animal body. NWAD PLENITUDE.3

2. Fullness; complete competence; as the plenitude of the pope’s power. NWAD PLENITUDE.4

3. Completeness; as the plenitude of a man’s fame. NWAD PLENITUDE.5

PLENTEOUS, a. [from plenty.] Abundant; copious; plentiful; sufficient for every purpose; as a plenteous supply of provisions; a plenteous crop. NWAD PLENTEOUS.1

1. Yielding abundance; as a plenteous fountain. NWAD PLENTEOUS.2

The seven plenteous years. Genesis 41:34, 47. NWAD PLENTEOUS.3

2. Having an abundance. NWAD PLENTEOUS.4

The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods. Deuteronomy 28:11. NWAD PLENTEOUS.5

3. Possessing in abundance and ready to bestow liberally. Psalm 86:5, 15. NWAD PLENTEOUS.6

[This word is less used than plentiful.] NWAD PLENTEOUS.7

PLENTEOUSLY, adv. In abundance; copiously; plentifully. NWAD PLENTEOUSLY.1

PLENTEOUSNESS, n. Abundance; copious supply; plenty; as the seven years of plenteousness in Egypt. NWAD PLENTEOUSNESS.1

PLENTIFUL, a. [from plenty.] Copious; abundant; adequate to every purpose; as a plentiful crop of grain; a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water; a plentiful fortune. NWAD PLENTIFUL.1

1. Yielding abundant crops; affording ample supply; fruitful; as a plentiful year. NWAD PLENTIFUL.2

PLENTIFULLY, adv. Copiously; abundantly; with ample supply. NWAD PLENTIFULLY.1

PLENTIFULNESS, n. The state of being plentiful; abundance. NWAD PLENTIFULNESS.1

1. The quality of affording full supply. NWAD PLENTIFULNESS.2

PLENTY, n. [from L. plenus.] Abundance; copiousness; full or adequate supply; as, we have a plenty of corn for bread; the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant. NWAD PLENTY.1

1. Fruitfulness; a poetic use. NWAD PLENTY.2

The teeming clouds NWAD PLENTY.3

Descend in gladsome plenty o’er the world. NWAD PLENTY.4

PLENTY, a. Plentiful; being in abundance. NWAD PLENTY.5

Where water is plenty-- NWAD PLENTY.6

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. NWAD PLENTY.7

In every country where liquors are plenty. NWAD PLENTY.8

The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty. NWAD PLENTY.9

A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty. NWAD PLENTY.10

They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce. NWAD PLENTY.11

When laborers are plenty, their wages will be low. NWAD PLENTY.12

In the country, where wood is more plenty, they make their beams stronger. NWAD PLENTY.13

[The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.] NWAD PLENTY.14

PLENUM, n. [L.] Fullness of matter in space. NWAD PLENUM.1

PLEONASM, n. [L. pleonasmus; Gr. full, more, L. pleo, in impleo, to fill.] Redundancy of words in speaking or writing; the use of more words to express ideas, than are necessary. This may be justifiable when we intend to present thoughts with particular perspicuity or force. NWAD PLEONASM.1

PLEONASTE, n. [Gr. abundant; from its four facets, sometimes found on each solid angle of the octahedron.] NWAD PLEONASTE.1

A mineral, commonly considered as a variety of the spinelle ruby. [See Ceylanite.] NWAD PLEONASTE.2

PLEONASTIC, PLEONASTICAL, a. Pertaining to pleonasm; partaking of pleonasm; redundant. NWAD PLEONASTIC.1

PLEONASTICALLY, adv. With redundancy of words. NWAD PLEONASTICALLY.1

PLEROPHORY, n. [Gr. full, and to bear.] NWAD PLEROPHORY.1

Full persuasion or confidence. [Little used.] NWAD PLEROPHORY.2

PLESH, for plash, not used. NWAD PLESH.1

PLETHORA, n. [Gr. fullness.] Literally, fullness. NWAD PLETHORA.1

In medicine, fullness of blood; excess of blood; repletion; the state of the vessels of the human body, when they are too full or overloaded with fluids. NWAD PLETHORA.2

PLETHORIC, a. Having a full habit of body, or the vessels overcharged with fluids. NWAD PLETHORIC.1

PLETHORY. [See Plethora.] NWAD PLETHORY.1

PLETHRON, PLETHRUM, n. [Gr.] A square measure used in Greece, but the contents are not certainly known. Some authors suppose it to correspond with the Roman juger, or 240 feet; others allege it to be double the Egyptian aurora, which was the square of a hundred cubits. NWAD PLETHRON.1

PLEURA, n. [Gr. the side.] In anatomy, a thin membrane which covers the inside of the thorax. NWAD PLEURA.1

PLEURISY, n. [Gr. the side.] An inflammation of the pleura or membrane that covers the inside of the thorax. It is accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration and cough. The usual remedies are venesection, other evacuations, diluents, etc. NWAD PLEURISY.1

PLEURITIC, PLEURITICAL, a. Pertaining to pleurisy; as pleuritic symptoms or affections. NWAD PLEURITIC.1

1. Diseased with pleurisy. NWAD PLEURITIC.2

PLEVIN, n. A warrant of assurance. NWAD PLEVIN.1

PLEXIFORM, n. [L. plexus, a fold, and form.] NWAD PLEXIFORM.1

In the form of net-work; complicated. NWAD PLEXIFORM.2

PLEXUS, n. [L.] Any union of vessels, nerves or fibers, in the form of net-work. NWAD PLEXUS.1

PLIABILITY, n. [from pliable.] The quality of bending or yielding to pressure or force without rupture; flexibility; pliableness. NWAD PLIABILITY.1

PLIABLE, a. [L. plico.] NWAD PLIABLE.1

1. Easy to be bent; that readily yields to pressure without rupture; flexible; as, willow is a pliable plant. NWAD PLIABLE.2

2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to moral influence, arguments, persuasion or discipline; as a pliable youth. NWAD PLIABLE.3

PLIABLENESS, n. Flexibility; the quality of yielding to force or to moral influence; pliability; as the pliableness of a plant or of the disposition. NWAD PLIABLENESS.1

PLIANCY, n. [from pliant.] Easiness to be bent; in a physical sense; as the pliancy of a rod, of cordage or of limbs. NWAD PLIANCY.1

1. Readiness to yield to moral influence; as pliancy of temper. NWAD PLIANCY.2

PLIANT, a. That may be easily bent; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; flexile; lithe; limber; as a pliant thread. NWAD PLIANT.1

1. That may be easily formed or molded to a different shape; as pliant wax. NWAD PLIANT.2

2. Easily yielding to moral influence; easy to be persuaded; ductile. NWAD PLIANT.3

The will was then more ductile and pliant to right reason. NWAD PLIANT.4

PLIANTNESS, n. Flexibility. NWAD PLIANTNESS.1

PLICA, n. [L. a fold.] The plica polonica is a disease of the hair, peculiar to Poland and the neighboring countries. In this disease, the hair of the head is matted or clotted by means of an acrid viscid humor which exudes from the hair. NWAD PLICA.1

PLICATE, PLICATED, a. [L. plicatus, plico, to fold.] NWAD PLICATE.1

Plaited; folded like a fan; as a plicate leaf. NWAD PLICATE.2

PLICATION, n. [from L. plico.] A folding or fold. NWAD PLICATION.1

PLICATURE, n. [L. plicatura; plico, to fold.] A fold; a doubling. NWAD PLICATURE.1

PLIERS, n. plu. An instrument by which any small thing is seized and bent. NWAD PLIERS.1

PLIFORM, a. In the form of a fold or doubling. NWAD PLIFORM.1

PLIGHT, v.t. plite. [L. plico; flecto, to bend; ligo. See Alloy and Ply.] NWAD PLIGHT.1

1. To pledge; to give as security for the performance of some act; but never applied to property or goods. We say, he plighted his hand, his faith, his vows, his honor, his truth or troth. Pledge is applied to property as well as to word, faith, truth, honor, etc. To plight faith is, as it were, to deposit it in pledge for the performance of an act, on the non-performance of which, the pledge is forfeited. NWAD PLIGHT.2

2. To weave; to braid. NWAD PLIGHT.3

[This is the primary sense of the word, L. plico, but now obsolete.] NWAD PLIGHT.4

PLIGHT, n. plite. Literally, a state of being involved, [L. plicatus, implicatus, implicitus;] hence, perplexity, distress, or a distressed state or condition; as a miserable plight. But the word by itself does not ordinarily imply distress. Hence, NWAD PLIGHT.5

1. Condition; state; and sometimes good case; as, to keep cattle in plight. NWAD PLIGHT.6

In most cases, this word is now accompanied with an adjective which determines its signification; as bad plight; miserable or wretched plight; good plight. NWAD PLIGHT.7

2. Pledge; gage. NWAD PLIGHT.8

The Lord, whose hand must take my plight. NWAD PLIGHT.9

3. A fold [L. plica;] a double; a plait. NWAD PLIGHT.10

All in a silken Camus, lily white, NWAD PLIGHT.11

Purfled upon with many a folded plight. NWAD PLIGHT.12

4. A garment. [Not used.] NWAD PLIGHT.13

PLIGHTED, pp. pli’ted. Pledged. NWAD PLIGHTED.1

PLIGHTER, n. pli’ter. One that pledges; that which plights. NWAD PLIGHTER.1

PLIGHTING, ppr. pli’ting; Pledging. NWAD PLIGHTING.1

PLIM, v.i. To swell. [Not in use.] NWAD PLIM.1

PLINTH, n. [Gr. a brick or tile; L. plinthus.] NWAD PLINTH.1

In architecture, a flat square member in form of a brick, which serves as the foundation of a column; being the flat square table under the molding of the base and pedestal, at the bottom of the order. Vitruvius gives the name to the abacus or upper part of the Tuscan order, from its resemblance to the plinth. NWAD PLINTH.2

Plinth of a statue, is a base, flat, round or square. NWAD PLINTH.3

Plinth of a wall, two or three rows of bricks advanced from the wall in form of a platband; and in general, any flat high molding that serves in a front wall to mark the floors, to sustain the eaves of a wall or the larmier of a chimney. NWAD PLINTH.4

PLOD, v.i. To travel or work slowly or with steady laborious diligence. NWAD PLOD.1

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey’s end, than a fluttering way of advancing by starts. NWAD PLOD.2

Some stupid, plodding, money-loving wight. NWAD PLOD.3

1. To study heavily with steady diligence. NWAD PLOD.4

2. To toil; to drudge. NWAD PLOD.5

PLODDER, n. A dull, heavy, laborious person. NWAD PLODDER.1

PLODDING, ppr. Traveling or laboring with slow movement and steady diligence; studying closely but heavily. NWAD PLODDING.1

1. a. Industrious; diligent, but slow in contrivance or execution. NWAD PLODDING.2

PLODDING, n. Slow movement or study with steadiness or persevering industry. NWAD PLODDING.3

PLOT, n. [a different orthography of plat.] NWAD PLOT.1

1. A plat or small extent of ground; as a garden plot. NWAD PLOT.2

It was a chosen plot of fertile land. NWAD PLOT.3

When we mean to build, NWAD PLOT.4

We first survey the plot. NWAD PLOT.5

2. A plantation laid out. NWAD PLOT.6

3. A plan or scheme. [Qu. the next word.] NWAD PLOT.7

4. In surveying, a plan or draught of a field, farm or manor surveyed and delineated on paper. NWAD PLOT.8

PLOT, v.t. To make a plan of; to delineate. NWAD PLOT.9

PLOT, n. NWAD PLOT.10

1. Any scheme, stratagem or plan of a complicated nature, or consisting of many parts, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a mischievous one. A plot may be formed by a single person or by numbers. In the latter case, it is a conspiracy or an intrigue. The latter word more generally denotes a scheme directed against individuals; the former against the government. But this distinction is not always observed. NWAD PLOT.11

O think what anxious moments pass between NWAD PLOT.12

The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods! NWAD PLOT.13

2. In dramatic writings, the knot or intrigue; the story of a play, comprising a complication of incidents which are at last unfolded by unexpected means. NWAD PLOT.14

If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before. NWAD PLOT.15

3. Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot. NWAD PLOT.16

A man of much plot. NWAD PLOT.17

PLOT, v.i. To form a scheme of mischief against another, or against a government or those who administer it. A traitor plots against his king. NWAD PLOT.18

The wicked plotteth against the just. Psalm 37:12. NWAD PLOT.19

1. To contrive a plan; to scheme. NWAD PLOT.20

The prince did plot to be secretly gone. NWAD PLOT.21

PLOT, v.t. To plan; to devise; to contrive; as, to plot an unprofitable crime. NWAD PLOT.22

PLOTTED, pp. Contrived; planned. NWAD PLOTTED.1

PLOTTER, n. One that plots or contrives; a contriver. NWAD PLOTTER.1

1. A conspirator. NWAD PLOTTER.2

PLOTTING, ppr. Contriving; planning; forming an evil design. NWAD PLOTTING.1

PLOUGH. [See Plow.] NWAD PLOUGH.1

PLOVER, n. [L. pluvialis, rainy; pluo, to rain.] NWAD PLOVER.1

The common name of several species of birds that frequent the banks of rivers and the sea shore, belonging to the genus Charadrius. NWAD PLOVER.2

PLOW, n. NWAD PLOW.1

1. In agriculture, an instrument for turning up, breaking and preparing the ground for receiving the seed. It is drawn by oxen or horses and saves the labor of digging; it is therefore the most useful instrument in agriculture. NWAD PLOW.2

The emperor lays hold of the plow and turns up several furrows. NWAD PLOW.3

When fern succeeds, ungrateful to the plow. NWAD PLOW.4

2. Figuratively, tillage; culture of the earth; agriculture. NWAD PLOW.5

3. A joiner’s instrument for grooving. NWAD PLOW.6

PLOW, v.t. To trench and turn up with a plow; as, to plow the ground for wheat; to plow it into ridges. NWAD PLOW.7

1. To furrow; to divide; to run through in sailing. NWAD PLOW.8

With speed we plow the watery wave. NWAD PLOW.9

2. To tear; to furrow. NWAD PLOW.10

3. In Scripture, to labor in any calling. NWAD PLOW.11

He that ploweth should plow in hope. 1 Corinthians 9:10. NWAD PLOW.12

To plow on the back, to scourge; to mangle, or to persecute and torment. Psalm 129:3. NWAD PLOW.13

To plow with one’s heifer, to deal with the wife to obtain something from the husband. Judges 14:18. NWAD PLOW.14

To plow iniquity or wickedness, and reap it, to devise and practice it, and at last suffer the punishment of it. Job 4:8; Hosea 10:13. NWAD PLOW.15

To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat. NWAD PLOW.16

To plow up or out, to turn out of the ground by plowing. NWAD PLOW.17

To put one’s hand to the plow and look back, is to enter on the service of Christ and afterwards abandon it. Luke 9:62. NWAD PLOW.18

[This difference of orthography often made between the noun and verb is wholly unwarrantable, and contrary to settled analogy in our language. Such a difference is never made in changing into verbs, plot, harrow, notice, question, and most other words. See Practice.] NWAD PLOW.19

PLOW-ALMS, n. A penny formerly paid by every plow-land to the church. NWAD PLOW-ALMS.1

PLOW-BOTE, n. In English law, wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. NWAD PLOW-BOTE.1

PLOWBOY, n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a rustic boy. NWAD PLOWBOY.1

PLOWED, pp. Turned up with a plow; furrowed. NWAD PLOWED.1

PLOWER, n. One that plows land; a cultivator. NWAD PLOWER.1

PLOWING, ppr. Turning up with a plow; furrowing. NWAD PLOWING.1

PLOWING, n. The operation of turning up ground with a plow; as the first and second plowing; three plowings. NWAD PLOWING.2

PLOW-LAND, n. Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage. NWAD PLOW-LAND.1

PLOWMAN, n. One that plows or holds a plow. NWAD PLOWMAN.1

At last the robber binds the plowman and carries him off with the oxen. NWAD PLOWMAN.2

1. A cultivator of grain; a husbandman. NWAD PLOWMAN.3

2. A rustic; a countryman; a hardy laborer. NWAD PLOWMAN.4