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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Pĭv'ot-măn, n.p. 993The officer or soldier at the flank on which a company wheels. Campbell.
  2. Pĭx, n.p. 993The same as PYX, q. v.
  3. Pĭx, v. t.p. 993See PYX.
  4. Pĭx'y, n.p. 993A fairy. [Prov. Eng.] Holloway.
  5. Pĭx'y-lĭēd, a.p. 993Led by pixies or fairies; bewildered.
  6. Pĭx'y-rĭng, n.p. 993A fairy ring. Halliwell.
  7. Pĭx'y-stōōl, n.p. 993A toadstool or mushroom.
  8. Piz'zle, n.p. 993The part, in certain male quadrupeds, which is official to generation and the discharge of urine. Browne.
  9. Pla'ca-bĭl'ĭ-tȳ, n.p. 993The quality of being placable, or appeasable.
  10. Plā'ca-ble, a.p. 993Capable of being appeased or pacified; appeasable; willing to forgive. Methought I saw him placable and mild. Milton.
  11. Plā'ca-ble-ness, n.p. 993The quality of being placable; placability.
  12. Pla-cārd', n.p. 993A written or printed paper posted in a public place. ☞ It seems to have been formerly the name of an edict, proclamation, or manifesto, issued by authority. It is now an advertisement, or a libel, or…
  13. Pla-cārd’, v. t.p. 993To post, as a writing or libel, in a public place; — sometimes used in a good sense. 2. To notify publicly.
  14. Pla'cāte, v. t.p. 993To appease or pacify; to conciliate.
  15. Plāçe, n.p. 993A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court-yard. “Hangman’s boys in the market-place.” Shak. At Eltham Place I told your majesty. Shak. 2. Hence, any portion of space regarded as measured…
  16. Plāce, v. t.p. 993To assign a place to; to put in a particular part of space, or in a given or assumed relative position; to fix; to settle. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. Shak. 2. To put in a particular…
  17. Pla·cē'bō, n.p. 993(Rom. Cath. Church.) The vesper hymn for the dead, beginning “Placebo Domino.” 2. (Med.) A prescription intended rather to please or satisfy, than to benefit the patient. Forsyth.
  18. Plāçe'-brick, n.p. 993An inferior kind of brick, which, from being on the outside of a kiln, is not perfectly burned;—so called by builders. Simmonds.
  19. Plāce'ful, a.p. 993In the appointed place. [Obs.]
  20. Plāce'less, a.p. 993Having no place.
  21. Plāce'man, n.p. 993One who holds or occupies a place; one who has an office under a government. His dislike to the whig and the placeman continued to maintain the coldness between them. W. Scott.
  22. Pla-cĕn'tă, n.p. 993(Anat.) The soft, spongy disk which connects the mother with the fetus in the womb. It is composed mainly of vascular tufts on the blood-vessels of the umbilical cord, which are surrounded by the…
  23. Pla-cen'tal, n.p. 993(Zoöl.) A mammal having a placenta, as all mammals except the marsupials and monotremes. R. Owen.
  24. Pla-cĕn′tal, a.p. 993Pertaining to the placenta; having a placenta; as, a placental mammal. Carpenter.
  25. Pla-cĕn′ta-ry, a.p. 993Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. Dana.
  26. Plā'ce'n-tā'tion, n.p. 993(Bot.) The disposition of seeds in the ovary or germen.
  27. Plăç'en-tīf'er-oŭs, a.p. 993(Bot.) Bearing or producing a placenta.
  28. Pla-cĕn'ti-fōrm, a.p. 993(Bot.) Having the shape of a placenta or circular thickened disk, depressed on both sides about the middle. Henslow.
  29. Plāce'-proud, a.p. 993Proud of rank or position. Beau. & Fl.
  30. Pla'cer, n.p. 993One who places or sets. Spenser.
  31. Pla·cêr', n.p. 993A gravelly place where gold is found, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent.
  32. Plăcĭd, a.p. 993Pleased; contented; unruffled; serene; tranquil; quiet. “That placid aspect and meek regard.” Milton.
  33. Pla·cid'i-oŭs, a.p. 993Placid. [Obs.]
  34. Pla-cid'i-ty, n.p. 993The quality of being placid; placidness.
  35. Plăc'id-ly, adv.p. 993In a placid manner; calmly; quietly.
  36. Plăc'id-ness, n.p. 993The state of being placid; calmness; quietness.
  37. Plaç'it, n.p. 993A decree or determination. “A diligent collector of the placits and opinions of other philosophers.” Evelyn.
  38. Plāç'ī-tā, n. pl.p. 993Public courts or assemblies held in the middle ages, in which the sovereign presided, when a consultation was held upon the affairs of state. Brande. 2. (O. Eng. Law.) Pleas; pleadings; judicial…
  39. Plaç'i-to-ry, a.p. 993Relating to pleas or pleading in courts of law. Clayton.
  40. Plăck, n.p. 993A small copper coin formerly used in Scotland, worth less than a cent. His poetry had been composed in the fields, with not a plack in the pocket of the poet. Prof. Wilson.
  41. Plăck'et, n.p. 993A petticoat. [Obs.] 2. The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on. 3. A woman's pocket. Halliwell.
  42. Plăck'et-hōle, n.p. 993The same as PLACKET, Nos. 2 and 3.
  43. Plăcē-o-dĕrm, n.p. 993(Palæon.) One of the bony plated fishes of the Devonian, as the Pterichthys coccocteus, and others.
  44. Plā'coid or Pla-coid'i-an, a.p. 993Pertaining to the placoids.
  45. Pla-coid'i-an, n.p. 993(Palæon.) One of an order of fishes, having the skin covered with irregularly enameled plates or points, as the shark, ray, and the like. Agassiz.
  46. Pla-fōnd', n.p. 993The ceiling of a room, whether flat or arched; any soffit.
  47. Plā'gal, a.p. 993(Mus.) Having the principal tones lying between the fifth of the key and its octave or twelfth;—said of certain melodies or tunes, and opposed to authentic. Plagal cadence, a cadence in which the…
  48. Plā'ğēṣ, n. pl.p. 993Places; regions; countries. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  49. Plā'gi-a-rĭsm, n.p. 993The act or practice of plagiarizing. Swift.
  50. Plā'gi-a-rīst, n.p. 993One who plagiarizes, or purloins the writings of another, and puts them off as his own; a plagiary.
  51. Plā'gi-a-rīze, v. t.p. 993To steal or purloin from the writings of another.
  52. Plā'gi-a-rīze, v. i.p. 993To be guilty of literary theft; to purloin from the writings of another.
  53. Plā'gi-a-ry, n.p. 993A thief in literature; one who purloins another's writings, and offers them to the public as his own. 2. The crime of literary theft. [Obs.] Such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by…
  54. Plā'gi-a-ry, a.p. 993Stealing men; kidnapping. [Obs. and rare.] Browne. 2. Practicing literary theft. Hall.
  55. Plā'gi-hē'dral, a.p. 993(Crystal.) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals. Dana.
  56. Plā'gi-on-īte, n.p. 993(Min.) A sulphuret of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster. Dana.
  57. Plā'gi-o-stōme, n.p. 993(Ichth.) One of a group of cartilaginous fishes, including the shark, ray, and the like.
  58. Plā'gi-ōs'to-moŭs, a.p. 993Relating to the plagiostomes.
  59. Plāgue, n.p. 993That which smites or wounds; any afflictive evil or calamity; a great trial or vexation. “A plague upon this howling.” Shaks. They count that as an enjoyment, which, upon experience, they find a…
  60. Plāgue, v. t.p. 993To vex; to tease; to harass; to trouble; to embarrass. If her nature be so, Then she will plague the man that loves her most. Spenser. 2. To infest with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any…