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Ply
v. t.
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To employ diligently; to use steadily.
Ply
v. t.
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To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.
Ply
v. i.
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To bend; to yield.
Ply
v. i.
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To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports.
Ply
v. i.
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To work to windward; to beat.
Ply
v.
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A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.
Ply
v.
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Bent; turn; direction; bias.
Plyer
n.
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One who, or that which, plies
Plyer
n.
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A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
Plyer
n.
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See Pliers.
Plyght
v. & n.
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See Plight.
Plymouth Brethren
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The members of a religious sect which first appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren.
Pneometer
n.
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A spirometer.
Pneumatic
a.
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Alt. of Pneumatical
Pneumatical
a.
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Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.
Pneumatical
a.
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Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments.
Pneumatical
a.
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Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.
Pneumatical
a.
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Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
Pneumaticity
n.
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The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.
Pneumatics
n.
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That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
Pneumatics
n.
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The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.
Pneumato-
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A combining form from Gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.
Pneumatocele
n.
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A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.
Pneumatocyst
n.
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A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia.
Pneumatogarm
n.
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A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.
Pneumatograph
n.
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An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.
Pneumatological
a.
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Of or pertaining to pneumatology.
Pneumatologist
n.
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One versed in pneumatology.
Pneumatology
n.
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The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1.
Pneumatology
n.
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The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.