Place (n.) Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.
Place (n.) Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).
Place (n.) A definite position or passage of a document.
Place (n.) Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.
Place (n.) Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
Place (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
Placed (imp. & p. p.) of Place
Placing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Place
Place (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
Place (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.
Place (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
Place (n.) To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.
Place (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
Placebo (n.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
Placebo (n.) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.
Placeful (a.) In the appointed place.
Placeless (a.) Having no place or office.
Placemen (pl. ) of Placeman
Placeman (n.) One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.
Placement (n.) The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
Placement (n.) Position; place.
Placentae (pl. ) of Placenta
Placentas (pl. ) of Placenta
Placenta (n.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
Placenta (n.) The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.
Placental (a.) Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.
Placental (a.) Of or pertaining to the Placentalia.
Placental (n.) One of the Placentalia.
Placentalia (n. pl.) A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.
Placentary (a.) Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
Placentation (n.) The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
Placentation (n.) The mode in which the placenta is arranged or composed; as, axile placentation; parietal placentation.
Placentiferous (a.) Having or producing a placenta.
Placentiform (a.) Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.
Placentious (a.) Pleasing; amiable.
Place-proud (a.) Proud of rank or office.
Placer (n.) One who places or sets.
Placer (n.) A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.
Placet (n.) A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.
Placet (n.) The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.
Placid (a.) Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.
Placidity (n.) The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity.
Placidly (adv.) In a placid manner.
Placidness (n.) The quality or state of being placid.
Placit (n.) A decree or determination; a dictum.
Placitory (a.) Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law.
Placita (pl. ) of Placitum
Placitum (n.) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
Placitum (n.) A court, or cause in court.
Placitum (n.) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.
Plack (n.) A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.
Placket (n.) A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.
Placket (n.) The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.
Placket (n.) A woman's pocket.
Placoderm (n.) One of the Placodermi.
Placodermal (a.) Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.
Placodermata (n. pl.) Same as Placodermi.
Placodermi (n. pl.) An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.
Placoganoid (a.) Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
Placoganoidei (n. pl.) A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
Placoid (a.) Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.
Placoid (n.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.
Placoid (n.) One of the Placoides.
Placoides (n. pl.) A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.
Placoidian (n.) One of the placoids.
Placophora (n. pl.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
Plagae (pl. ) of Plaga
Plaga (n.) A stripe of color.
Plagal (a.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.
Plagate (a.) Having plagae, or irregular enlongated color spots.
Plage (n.) A region; country.
Plagiarism (n.) The act or practice of plagiarizing.
Plagiarism (n.) That which plagiarized.
Plagiarist (n.) One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.
Plagiarized (imp. & p. p.) of Plagiarize
Plagiarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plagiarize
Plagiarize (v. t.) To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).
Plagiary (v. i.) To commit plagiarism.
Plagiaries (pl. ) of Plagiary
Plagiary (n.) A manstealer; a kidnaper.
Plagiary (n.) One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist.
Plagiary (n.) Plagiarism; literary thief.
Plagiary (a.) Kidnaping.
Plagiary (a.) Practicing plagiarism.
Plagihedral (a.) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
Plagiocephalic (a.) Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
Plagiocephaly (n.) Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
Plagioclase (n.) A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar.
Plagionite (n.) A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.
Plagiostomatous (a.) Same as Plagiostomous.
Plagiostome (n.) One of the Plagiostomi.
Plagiostomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; -- called also Plagiostomata.
Plagiostomous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Plagiostomi.
Plagiotremata (n. pl.) Same as Lepidosauria.
Plagiotropic (a.) Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.
Plagium (n.) Manstealing; kidnaping.
Plagose (a.) Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master.
Plague (n.) That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
Plague (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague.
Plagued (imp. & p. p.) of Plague