Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PLU'RAL-IZE – PNEU-MAT'ICS
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PLU'RAL-IZE, v.t.
To make plural by using the termination of the plural number.
PLU'RAL-LY, adv.
In a sense implying more than one.
PLU-RI-LIT'ER-AL, a. [L. plus and litera, letter.]
Containing more letters than three.
PLU-RI-LIT'ER-AL, n.
A word consisting of more letters than three.
PLU'RI-SY, n. [L. plus, pluris.]
Superabundance. [Not used.] – Shak.
PLUS, n. [L. more.]
In algebra, a character marked thus, +, used as a sign of addition.
PLUSH, n. [G. plüsch, shag; D. pluis, flock, nap, plush; pluizen, to fray, pick, carp, fleece. Qu. Fr. peluche. The Italian peluzzo signifies a little hair or down, from pelo, hair, L. pilus.]
Shag; a species of shaggy cloth or stuff with a velvet nap on one side, composed regularly of a woof of a single thread and a double warp; the one, wool of two threads twisted, the other of goat's or camel's hair. But some plushes are made wholly of worsted; others wholly of hair. – Encyc.
PLUSH'ER, n.
A marine fish. – Carew.
PLU-TO'NI-AN, a.
Plutonic – which see.
PLU-TO'NI-AN, n.
One who maintains the origin of mountains, &c. to be from fire. – Journ. of Science. The Plutonian theory of the formation of rocks and mountains is opposed to the Neptunian.
PLU-TON'IC, a. [from Pluto, in mythology, the king of the infernal regions.]
Pertaining to or designating the system of the Plutonists; as, the Plutonic theory. – Kirwan.
PLU'TO-NISM, n.
The doctrines of the Plutonists.
PLU'TO-NIST, n.
One who adopts the theory of the formation of the world in its present state from igneous fusion. – Good.
PLU'VI-AL, or PLU'VI-OUS, a. [L. pluvialis, from pluvia, rain; Fr. and It. pluviale; Sp. pluvial.]
Rainy; humid. Brown.
PLU'VI-AL, n. [Fr. pluvial.]
A priest's scope. – Ainsworth.
PLU-VI-AM'E-TER, n. [L. pluvia, rain, and Gr. μετρον, measure.]
A rain-gage, an instrument for ascertaining the quantity of water that falls in rain, or in rain and snow, in any particular climate or place.
Pertaining to a pluviameter; made or ascertained by a pluviameter. – Journ. of Science.
PLY, n.
- A fold; a plait. – Arbuthnot.
- Bent; turn; direction; bias. The late learners can not so well take the ply. – Bacon.
PLY, v.i.
- To bend; to yield. The willow plied and gave way to the gust. – L'Estrange.
- To work steadily. He was forced to ply in the streets. – Spectator.
- To go in haste. Thither he plies undaunted. – Milton.
- To busy one's self; to be steadily employed. – Dryden.
- To endeavor to make way against the wind. – Mar. Dict.
PLY, v.t. [Fr. plier, to bend or fold, formerly written ployer whence employ; Arm. plega, W. plygu, It. piegare, Sp: plegar, Port. pregar, L. plico, Gr. πλεκω, to fold; Sax. pleggan, to play and to lie on; D. pleegen, to use, to exercise; Dan. plejer, to exercise, to perform an office, to tend, to nurse; G. pflegen, id.; Sw. pläga. That these words are from the root of lie, lay, is obvious, for in G. liegen, to lie, signifies also to ply, to apply. The prefix p may be used for the Teutonic be; be-liegen, to lie close, to bend to. See Lay and Lie.]
- To lay on, to put to or on with force and repetition; to apply to closely, with continuation of efforts or urgency. And plies him with redoubled strokes. – Dryden. The hero from afar / Plies him with darts and stones. – Dryden. We retain the precise sense in the phrase to lay on, to put it on him.
- To employ with diligence; to apply closely and steadily; to keep busy. Her gentle wit she plies. – Spenser. The wearied Trojans ply their shattered oars. – Dryden.
- To practice or perform with diligence. Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. – Waller.
- To urge; to solicit with pressing or persevering importunity. He plies the duke at morning and at night. – Shak.
- To urge; to press; to strain; to force.
PLY'ER, n.
He or that which plies. In fortification, plyers denotes a kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge, consisting of timbers joined in the form of St. Andrew's cross.
PLY'ING, n.
- Urgent solicitation. – Hammond.
- Effort to make way against the wind.
PLY'ING, ppr.
Laying on with steadiness or repetition; applying closely; employing; performing; urging; pressing or attempting to make way against the wind.
PNEU-MAT'IC, or PNEU-MAT'IC-AL, a. [numat'ic; Gr. πνευματικος, from πνευμα, breath, spirit; πνεω, to breathe or blow.]
- Consisting of air, as a thin compressible substance; opposed to dense or solid substances. The pneumatic substance being, in some bodies, the native spirit of the body. – Bacon.
- Pertaining to air, or to the philosophy of its properties; as, pneumatic experiments; a pneumatic engine. – Locke. Encyc.
- Moved or played by means of air; as, a pneumatic instrument of music.
PNEU-MAT'ICS, n.
- In natural philosophy, that branch which treats of air. In chimistry, that branch which treats of the gases.
- In the schools, the doctrine of spiritual substances, as God, angels, and the souls of men. – Dict.