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- English Word Pliable Definition Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
- English Word Pliable Definition Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.
- English Word Pliancy Definition The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod.
- English Word Pliant Definition Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
- English Word Pliant Definition Favorable to pliancy.
- English Word Plica Definition A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait.
- English Word Plica Definition A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
- English Word Plica Definition The bend of the wing of a bird.
- English Word Plicate Definition Alt. of Plicated
- English Word Plicated Definition Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.
- English Word Plication Definition A folding or fold; a plait.
- English Word Plicature Definition A fold; a doubling; a plication.
- English Word Plicidentine Definition A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.
- English Word Plied Definition imp. & p. p. of Ply.
- English Word Plied Definition of Ply
- English Word Pliers Definition A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
- English Word Pliform Definition In the form of a ply, fold, or doubling.
- English Word Plight Definition imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
- English Word Plight Definition imp. & p. p. of Pluck.
- English Word Plight Definition To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
- English Word Plight Definition A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
- English Word Plight Definition That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
- English Word Plight Definition Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
- English Word Plight Definition To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
- English Word Plight Definition To promise; to engage; to betroth.
- English Word Plighted Definition of Plight
- English Word Plighter Definition One who, or that which, plights.
- English Word Plighting Definition of Plight
- English Word Plim Definition To swell, as grain or wood with water.
- English Word Plimsoll's mark Definition 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.