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Pliform
a.
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In the form of a ply, fold, or doubling.
Plight
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imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
Plight
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imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
Plight
v. t.
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To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
Plight
n.
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A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
Plight
n.
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That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
Plight
n.
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Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
Plighted
imp. & p. p.
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of Plight
Plighting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Plight
Plight
n.
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To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
Plight
n.
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To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Plighter
n.
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One who, or that which, plights.
Plim
v. i.
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To swell, as grain or wood with water.
Plimsoll's mark
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A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.
Plinth
n.
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In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.
Pliocene
a.
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Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age.
Pliocene
n.
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The Pliocene period or deposits.
Pliohippus
n.
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An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.
Pliosaurus
n.
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An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.
Plitt
n.
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An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.
Ploc
n.
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A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.
Ploce
n.
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A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife indeed."
Plodded
imp. & p. p.
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of Plod
Plodding
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Plod
Plod
v. i.
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To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.
Plod
v. i.
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To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
Plodder
n.
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One who plods; a drudge.
Plodding
a.
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Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits.
Plonge
v. t.
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To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.
Plongee
n.
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A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course.