Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power.
Emerson.
Plus sign (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive
quantity.
Plush (?), n. [F. pluche, peluche (cf. It. peluzzo), fr. L. pilus hair.
See pile hair, and cf. Peruke.] A textile fabric with a nap or shag on
one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. Cowper.
Plush"y (?), a. Like plush; soft and shaggy. H. Kingsley.
Plu"tar*chy (?), n. [Gr. &?; wealth + -archy.] Plutocracy; the rule of
wealth. [R.]
Plu"te*al (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to a pluteus.
||Plu"te*us (?), n.; pl. L. Plutei (#), E. Pluteuses (#). [L., a shed.]
||(Zoˆl.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having
||several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.
Plu"to (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Class. Myth.) The son of Saturn and
Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the
Lower World.
Pluto monkey (Zoˆl.), a long- tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus
pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less
grizzled; the frontal band is white.
Plu*toc"ra*cy (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; wealth + &?; to be strong, to rule,
fr.&?; strength: cf. F. plutocratie.] A form of government in which the
supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government
by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.
Plu"to*crat (?), n. One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one
of the plutocracy.
Plu`to*crat"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic
ideas. Bagehot.
Plu*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; wealth + -logy.] The science which treats
of wealth.
Plu*to"ni*an (?), a. [L. Plutonius, Gr. &?;: cf. F. plutonien.]
Plutonic. Poe.
Plu*to"ni*an (?), n. (Geol.) A Plutonist.
Plu*ton"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. plutonique. See Pluto.] 1. Of or pertaining
to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth;
subterranean.
2. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the Plutonists;
igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.
Plutonic action (Geol.), the influence of volcanic heat and other
subterranean forces under pressure. -- Plutonic rocks (Geol.), granite,
porphyry, and some other igneous rocks, supposed to have consolidated
from a melted state at a great depth from the surface. Cf. Intrusive
rocks, under Intrusive. -- Plutonic theory. (Geol.) See Plutonism.
Plu"to*nism (?), n. [Cf. F. plutonisme.] The theory, early advanced in
geology, that the successive rocks of the earth\'b6s crust were formed
by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory.
Plu"to*nist (?), n. [Cf. F. plutoniste.] One who adopts the geological
theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.
Plu"tus (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Class. Myth.) The son of Jason and
Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a
cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without
discrimination of merit.
Plu"vi*al, a. [L. pluvialis, fr. pluvia rain: cf. F. pluvial. See
Plover.] 1. Of or pertaining to rain; rainy. [R.]