Before its setting hour, divide The bridegroom from the plighted
bride.
Sir W. Scott.
Plight"er (?), n. One who, or that which, plights.
Plim (?), v. i. [Cf. Plump.] To swell, as grain or wood with water.
[Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Plim"soll's mark` (?). (Naut.) A mark conspicuously painted on the port
side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit
of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by
whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was
procured.
Plinth (?), n. [L. plinthus, Gr. &?; a brick or tile, a plinth, perh.
akin to E. flint: cf. F. plinthe.] (Arch.) In classical architecture, a
vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a
column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the
lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of
an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.
Pli"o*cene (?), a. [Written also pleiocene.] [Gr. &?; more + &?; new,
recent.] (Geol.) Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent
division of the Tertiary age.
Pli"o*cene, n. (Geol.) The Pliocene period or deposits.
||Pli`o*hip"pus (?), n. [NL., fr. E. pliocene + Gr. &?; horse.]
||(Paleon.) An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each
||foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.
||Pli`o*sau"rus (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; greater + &?; lizard.]
||(Paleon.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus,
||but having a much shorter neck.
Plitt (?), n. [Russ. plete.] An instrument of punishment or torture
resembling the knout, used in Russia.
Ploc (?), n. [F.] (Naut.) A mixture of hair and tar for covering the
bottom of a ship.
||Plo"ce (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; complication, fr. &?; to entwine.]
||(Rhet.) A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way of
||emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by
||it, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a
||wife indeed." Bailey.
Plod (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plodded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Plodding.]
[Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike or pelt with a clod or
clods.] 1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.
2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
"Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.
Plod, v. t. To walk on slowly or heavily.
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.
Gray.
Plod"der (?), n. One who plods; a drudge.
Plod"ding (?), a. Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized
by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a
man of plodding habits. --Plod"ding*ly, adv.
Plonge (?), v. t. [See Plunge.] To cleanse, as open drains which are
entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.
||Plon`gÈe" (?), n. [F. See Plunge.] (Mil.) A slope or sloping toward
||the front; as, the plongÈe of a parapet; the plongÈe of a shell in
||its course. [Sometimes written plonge.]
Plot (?), n. [AS. plot; cf. Goth. plats a patch. Cf. Plat a piece of
ground.] 1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. Shak.