Pla`gi*he"dral (?), a. [Gr. &?; oblique + &?; base, seat.]
(Crystallog.) Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as
levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
Pla`gi*o*ce*phal"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; oblique + &?; the head.] (Anat.)
Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
Pla`gi*o*ceph"a*ly (?), n. (Anat.) Oblique lateral deformity of the
skull.
Pla"gi*o*clase (?), n. [Gr. &?; oblique + &?; to break.] (Min.) A
general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under
Feldspar.
Pla"gi*o*nite (?), n. [Gr. &?; oblique. So called in allusion to its
usually oblique crystallization.] (Min.) A sulphide of lead and
antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.
Pla`gi*o*stom"a*tous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Same as Plagiostomous.
Pla"gi*o*stome (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Plagiostomi.
||Pla`gi*os"to*mi (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; slanting + &?;, &?;,
||mouth.] (Zoˆl.) An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; --
||called also Plagiostomata.
Pla`gi*os"to*mous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Plagiostomi.
||Pla`gi*o*trem"a*ta (?), n. pl.; [NL., fr. Gr. &?; slanting + &?;,
||&?;, a hole.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Lepidosauria.
Pla`gi*o*trop"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; aslant + &?; to turn.] (Bot.) Having
the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.
||Pla"gi*um (?), n. [L.] (Civil Law) Manstealing; kidnaping.
Pla*gose" (?), a. [L. plagosus. See Plague.] Fond of flogging; as, a
plagose master. [R.]
Plague (?), n. [L. plaga a blow, stroke, plague; akin to Gr. &?;, fr.
&?; to strike; cf. L. plangere to strike, beat. Cf. Plaint.] 1. That
which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive
evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. Shak.
And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail.
Wyclif.
The different plague of each calamity.
Shak.
2. (Med.) 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. "A plague upon the people fell." Tennyson.
Cattle plague. See Rinderpest. -- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or
mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.
Plague, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plagued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Plaguing.] 1.
To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any
kind.
Thus were they plagued And worn with famine.
Milton.