4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

It engenders choler, planteth anger.

Shak.

5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to

establish; as, to plant a colony.

Planting of countries like planting of woods.

Bacon.

6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant

Christianity among the heathen.

7. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant

cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's

feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

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