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- 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.
- English Word Plinth Definition 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.
- English Word Pliocene Definition Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age.
- English Word Pliocene Definition The Pliocene period or deposits.
- English Word Pliohippus Definition An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.
- English Word Pliosaurus Definition An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.
- English Word Plitt Definition An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.
- English Word Ploc Definition A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.
- English Word Ploce Definition 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."
- English Word Plod Definition To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.
- English Word Plod Definition To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.