Plu`mu*la"ceous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Downy; bearing down.
Plu"mu*lar (?), a. (Bot.) Relating to a plumule.
||Plu`mu*la"ri*a (?), n.; pl. L. PlumularlÊ (#), E. Plumularias (#).
||[NL.] (Zoˆl.) Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of
||the family PlumularidÊ. They generally grow in plumelike forms.
Plu`mu*la"ri*an (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.
Plu"mule (?), n. [L. plumula, dim. of pluma a feather; cf. F. plumule.]
1. (Bot.) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or
growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of
Radicle. Gray.
2. (Zoˆl.) (a) A down feather. (b) The aftershaft of a feather. See
Illust. under Feather. (c) One of the featherlike scales of certain
male butterflies.
Plu"mu*lose" (?), a. Having hairs branching out laterally, like the
parts of a feather.
Plum"y (?), a. Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes;
feathery. "His plumy crest." Addison. "The plumy trees." J. S. Blackie.
Plun"der (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Plundering.] [G. pl¸ndern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage.] 1. To
take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to
sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God.
South.
2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered
all the goods they found.
Syn. -- To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.
Plun"der (?), n. 1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See
Syn. of Pillage.
Inroads and plunders of the Saracens.
Sir T. North.
2. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil;
booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. "He shared in the
plunder." Cowper.
3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang,
Southwestern U.S.]
Plun"der*age (?), n. (Mar. Law) The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.
Wharton.
Plun"der*er (?), n. One who plunders or pillages.
Plunge (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plunged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Plunging
(?).] [OE. ploungen, OF. plongier, F. plonger, fr. (assumed) LL.
plumbicare, fr. L. plumbum lead. See Plumb.] 1. To thrust into water,
or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to
penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the
body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used
figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. "To plunge the boy in
pleasing sleep." Dryden.
Bound and plunged him into a cell.
Tennyson.
We shall be plunged into perpetual errors.