Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PLANT'A-BLE, a.

Capable of being planted. Edwards, West Indies.

PLANT'AGE, n. [L. plantago.]

An herb, or herbs in general. [Not in use.] – Shak.

PLANT'AIN, n. [Fr.; from L. plantago; It. piantaggine.]

A plant of the genus Plantago, of several species. The water plantain is of the genus Alisma. – Encyc.

PLANT'AIN, or PLANT'AIN-TREE, n. [Sp. platano.]

A tree of the genus Musa, the most remarkable species of which are, the paradisiaca or plantain, and the sapientum or banana-tree. The plantain rises with a soft stem fifteen or twenty feet high, and the fruit is a substitute for bread. – Encyc.

PLANT'AL, a.

Belonging to plants. [Not used.] – Glanville.

PLANT-A'TION, n. [L. plantatio, from planto, to plant.]

1. The act of planting or setting in the earth for growth.
2. The place planted; applied to ground planted with trees, as an orchard or the like. Addison.
3. In the United States and the West Indies, a cultivated estate; a farm. In the United States, this word is applied to an estate, a tract of land occupied and cultivated, in those states only where the labor is performed by slaves, and where the land is more or less appropriated to the culture of tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton, that is, from Maryland to Georgia inclusive, on the Atlantic, and in the western states where the land is appropriated to the same articles or to the culture of the sugar cane. From Maryland, northward and eastward, estates in land are called farms.
4. An original settlement in a new country; a town or village planted. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. – B. Trumbull.
5. A colony. – Bacon.
6. A first planting; introduction; establishment; as, the plantation of Christianity in England. – K. Charles.

PLANT'-CANE, n.

In the West Indies, the original plants of the sugar cane, produced from germs placed in the ground; or canes of the first growth, in distinction from the ratoons, or sprouts from the roots of canes which have been cut. – Edwards' W. Indies.

PLANT'ED, pp.

1. Set in the earth for propagation; set; fixed; introduced; established.
2. Furnished with seeds or plants for growth; as, a planted field.
3. Furnished with the first inhabitants; settled; as, territory planted with colonists.
4. Filled or furnished with what is new. A man in all the world's new fashion planted. [See Def. 3.] – Shak.

PLANT'ER, n.

1. One that plants, sets, introduces or establishes; as, a planter of maiz; a planter of vines; the planters of a colony.
2. One that settles in a new or uncultivated territory; as the first planters in Virginia.
3. One who owns a plantation; used in the West Indies and southern states of America.
4. One that introduces and establishes. The Apostles were the first planters of Christianity. Nelson. Addison.

PLANT'ER-SHIP, n.

The business of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the West Indies. – Encyc.

PLANT'I-CLE, n.

A young plant, or plant in embryo. – Darwin.

PLANT'I-GRADE, a.

Walking on the sole of the foot.

PLAN'TI-GRADE, a.

One of a tribe of carnivorous quadrupeds, who in walking put the whole sole of the foot on the ground. [1841 Addenda only.]

PLANT'I-GRADE, n. [L. planta, the sole of the foot, and gradior, to walk.]

An animal that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as the bear. – Bell.

PLANT'ING, n.

The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, &c.

PLANT'ING, ppr.

Setting in the earth for propagation; setting, settling; introducing; establishing.

PLANT'LET, n.

A little plant. – Keith.

PLANT'-LOUSE, n.

An insect that infests plants; a vine fretter; the puceron.

PLANT'ULE, n.

The embryo of a plant.

PLASH, n. [D. plas, a puddle; G. plätschern, to plash, to dabble; Dan. plasker, to plash; Gr. πλαδος, superabundant moisture. Qu. παλασσω.]

1. A small collection of standing water; a puddle. – Bacon. Pope.
2. The branch of a tree partly cut or lopped and bound to other branches. – Mortimer.

PLASH, v.i.

To dabble in water; usually splash.

PLASH, v.t. [Fr. plisser. See Plait. But perhaps originally pleach, from L. plico, to fold.]

To interweave branches as, to plash a hedge or quicksets. [In New England, to splice.]

PLASH'ED, pp.

Interwoven, as branches.

PLASH'ING, n.

The act or operation of cutting and lopping small trees and interweaving them, as in hedges. Encyc.

PLASH'ING, ppr.

Cutting and interweaving, as branches in a hedge.