Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 80

Plod (v. i.) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

Plod (v. t.) To walk on slowly or heavily.

Plodder (n.) One who plods; a drudge.

Plodding (a.) 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.) To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.

Plongee (n.) A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course.

Plot (n.) A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

Plot (n.) A plantation laid out.

Plot (n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

Plotted (imp. & p. p.) of Plot

Plotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plot

Plot (v. t.) To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.

Plot (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.

Plot (n.) A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

Plot (n.) Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

Plot (n.) A plan; a purpose.

Plot (n.) In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

Plot (v. i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.

Plot (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

Plotful (a.) Abounding with plots.

Pletinian (a.) Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines.

Plotinist (n.) A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.

Plot-proof (a.) Secure against harm by plots.

Plotter (n.) One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

Plough (n. & v.) See Plow.

Plover (n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds.

Plover (n.) Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers.

Plow (n.) Alt. of Plough

Plough (n.) A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.

Plough (n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

Plough (n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.

Plough (n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

Plough (n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

Plough (n.) Same as Charles's Wain.

Plowed (imp. & p. p.) of Plough

Ploughed () of Plough

Plowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plough

Ploughing () of Plough

Plow (v. t.) Alt. of Plough

Plough (v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.

Plough (v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

Plough (v. t.) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

Plough (n.) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.

Plow (v. i.) Alt. of Plough

Plough (v. i.) To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.

Plowable (a.) Alt. of Ploughable

Ploughable (a.) Capable of being plowed; arable.

Plowbote (n.) Alt. of Ploughbote

Ploughbote (n.) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

Plowboy (n.) Alt. of Ploughboy

Ploughboy (n.) A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

Plower (n.) Alt. of Plougher

Plougher (n.) One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

Plowfoot (n.) Alt. of Ploughfoot

Ploughfoot (n.) An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.

Plowgang (n.) Alt. of Ploughgang

Ploughgang (n.) Same as Plowgate.

Plowgate (n.) Alt. of Ploughgate

Ploughgate (n.) The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland.

Plowhead (n.) Alt. of Ploughhead

Ploughhead (n.) The clevis or draught iron of a plow.

Plowland (n.) Alt. of Plougland

Plougland (n.) Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.

Plougland (n.) the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide.

-men (pl. ) of Ploughman

Plowman (n.) Alt. of Ploughman

Ploughman (n.) One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman.

Ploughman (n.) A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.

Plowpoint (n.) Alt. of Ploughpoint

Ploughpoint (n.) A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.

Plowshare (n.) Alt. of Ploughshare

Ploughshare (n.) The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.

Plowtail (n.) Alt. of Ploughtail

Ploughtail (n.) The hind part or handle of a plow.

Plowwright (n.) Alt. of Ploughwright

Ploughwright (n.) One who makes or repairs plows.

Ploy (n.) Sport; frolic.

Ploy (v. i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.

Ployment (n.) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

Plucked (imp. & p. p.) of Pluck

Plucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pluck

Pluck (v. t.) To pull; to draw.

Pluck (v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.

Pluck (v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

Pluck (v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.

Pluck (v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

Pluck (n.) The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

Pluck (n.) The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

Pluck (n.) Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

Pluck (n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.

Pluck (v. t.) The lyrie.

Plucked (a.) Having courage and spirit.

Plucker (n.) One who, or that which, plucks.

Plucker (n.) A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.

Pluckily (adv.) In a plucky manner.

Pluckiness (n.) The quality or state of being plucky.

Pluckless (a.) Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.

Plucky (superl.) Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.

Pluff (v. t.) To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.

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