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- English Word Placita Definition of Placitum
- English Word Placitory Definition Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law.
- English Word Placitum Definition A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
- English Word Placitum Definition A court, or cause in court.
- English Word Placitum Definition A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.
- English Word Plack Definition A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.
- English Word Placket Definition A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.
- English Word Placket Definition The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.
- English Word Placket Definition A woman's pocket.
- English Word Placoderm Definition One of the Placodermi.
- English Word Placodermal Definition Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.
- English Word Placodermata Definition Same as Placodermi.
- English Word Placodermi Definition An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.
- English Word Placoganoid Definition Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
- English Word Placoganoidei Definition A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
- English Word Placoid Definition Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.
- English Word Placoid Definition Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.
- English Word Placoid Definition One of the Placoides.
- English Word Placoides Definition A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.
- English Word Placoidian Definition One of the placoids.
- English Word Placophora Definition A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
- English Word Plaga Definition A stripe of color.
- English Word Plagae Definition of Plaga
- English Word Plagal Definition Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.
- English Word Plagate Definition Having plagae, or irregular enlongated color spots.
- English Word Plage Definition A region; country.
- English Word Plagiaries Definition of Plagiary
- English Word Plagiarism Definition The act or practice of plagiarizing.
- English Word Plagiarism Definition That which plagiarized.
- English Word Plagiarist Definition One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.