3. (Anat.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See
Testudinata.
4. A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different
material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.
-plas"ty (?). [Gr. &?; to mold, form.] A combining form denoting the
act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty,
perineoplasty.
Plat (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n. Platting.] [See
Plait.] To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They
had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.
Plat, n. Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat.
Shak.
Plat, n. [Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a
piece of ground.] A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some
design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve.
Milton.