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Plunder
n.
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The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
Plunder
n.
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That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
Plunder
n.
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Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.
Plunderage
n.
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The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.
Plunderer
n.
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One who plunders or pillages.
Plunged
imp. & p. p.
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of Plunge
Plunging
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Plunge
Plunge
v. t.
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To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.
Plunge
v. t.
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To baptize by immersion.
Plunge
v. t.
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To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
Plunge
v. i.
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To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
Plunge
v. i.
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To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
Plunge
v. i.
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To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
Plunge
n.
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The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
Plunge
n.
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Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
Plunge
n.
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The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
Plunge
n.
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Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
Plunger
n.
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One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
Plunger
n.
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A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
Plunger
n.
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One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
Plunger
n.
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A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
Plunger
n.
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The firing pin of a breechloader.
Plunket
n.
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A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.
Pluperfect
a.
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More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.
Pluperfect
n.
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The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.
Plural
a.
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Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word.
Plural
n.
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The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.
Pluralism
n.
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The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
Pluralism
n.
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The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
Pluralist
n.
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A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.