3. (Med.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound,
ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the
matter discharged.
||Ple*gep"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. (&?;) a stroke + -poda. In
||allusion to the rapid strokes of the vibrating cilia.] (Zoˆl.) Same
||as Infusoria.
Ple"iad (?), n. One of the Pleiades.
Ple"ia*des (?; 277), n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. (&?;)] 1. (Myth.) The seven
daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by
Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
2. (Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation
Taurus. Job xxxviii. 31.
Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third magnitude, was
considered by M‰dler the central point around which our universe is
revolving, but there is no sufficient evidence of such motion. Only six
pleiads are distinctly visible to the naked eye, whence the ancients
supposed that a sister had concealed herself out of shame for having
loved a mortal, Sisyphus.
Plein (?), a. Plan. [Obs.] Chaucer.