Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PLEN'TE-OUS-NESS, n.

Abundance; copious supply; plenty; as, the seven years of plenteousness in Egypt.

PLEN'TI-FUL, a. [from plenty.]

1. Copious; abundant; adequate to every purpose; as, a plentiful crop of grain; a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water; a plentiful fortune.
2. Yielding abundant crops; affording ample supply; fruitful; as, a plentiful year. – Bacon.

PLEN'TI-FUL-LY, adv.

Copiously; abundantly; with ample supply. – Addison.

PLEN'TI-FUL-NESS, n.

1. The state of being plentiful; abundance.
2. The quality of affording full supply.

PLEN'TY, a.

Plentiful; being in abundance. Where water is plenty. – Tusser. If reasons were as plenty as blackberries. – Shak. In every country where liquors are plenty. – Hist. Collections. The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty. – Tooke, Russ. Emp. A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty. – Adair. They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce. – Goldsmith. When laborers are plenty, their wages will be low. – Franklin. In the country, where wood is more plenty, they make their beams stronger. – Encyc. [The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.]

PLEN'TY, n. [from L. plenus.]

1. Abundance; copiousness; full or adequate supply; as, we have a plenty of corn for bread; the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant.
2. Fruitfulness; a poetic use. The teeming clouds / Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world. – Thomson.

PLE'NUM, n. [L.]

Fullness of matter in space. – Descartes.

PLE'O-NASM, n. [L. pleonasmus; Gr. πλεονασμος, from the root of πλεος, full, πλειον, more, L. pleo, in impleo, to fill.]

Redundancy of words in speaking or writing; the use of more words to express ideas, than are necessary. This may be justifiable when we intend to present thoughts with particular perspicuity or force.

PLE'O-NASTE, n. [Gr. πλεοναστος, abundant; from its four facets, sometimes found on each solid angle of the octahedron.]

A mineral, commonly considered as a variety of the spinelle ruby. [See Ceylonite.]

PLE-O-NAS'TIC, or PLE-O-NAS'TIC-AL, a.

Pertaining to pleonasm; partaking of pleonasm; redundant. – Blackwell.

PLE-O-NAS'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

With redundancy of words.

PLE-ROPH'O-RY, n. [Gr. πληροφορια; πληρης, full, and φερω, to bear.]

Full persuasion or confidence. [Little used.] – Hall.

PLESH, v.i. [or v. t. For Plash, not used.]

– Spenser.

PLE-SI-O-MORPH'ISM, n. [Gr. πλησιος and μορφη.]

The state of crystalized substances which nearly resemble each other in form, but still are different.

PLE-SI-O-MORPH'OUS, a.

Nearly alike in form.

PLE-SI-O-SAU'RUS, n. [Gr. πλησιος, next, and σαυρος, a lizard.]

A species of extinct lizard, or animal nearly of the same form, the fossil remains of which are found in the earth. – Buckland.

PLETH'O-RA, n. [Gr. πληθωρα, from πληθος, fullness.]

1. Literally, fullness.
2. In medicine, fullness of blood; excess of blood; repletion; the state of the vessels of the human body, when they are too full or overloaded with fluids. – Coxe. Parr. Encyc.

PLETH'O-RIC, a.

Having a full habit of body, or the vessels overcharged with fluids. – Arbuthnot.

PLETH'O-RY, n. [See PLETHORA.]

PLETH'RON, or PLETH'RUM, n. [Gr. πλεθρον.]

A square measure used in Greece, but the contents are not certainly known. Some authors suppose it to correspond with the Roman juger, or 240 feet; others alledge it to be double the Egyptian aura, which was the square of a hundred cubits.

PLEU'RA, n. [Gr. the side.]

In anatomy, a thin membrane which covers the inside of the thorax, and also invests the lungs.

PLEU'RI-SY, n. [Gr. πλευριτις, from πλευρα, the side; Fr. pleuresie; It. pleurisia.]

An inflammation of the pleura or membrane that covers the inside of the thorax. It is accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration and cough. – Encyc.

PLEU-RIT'IC, or PLEU-RIT'IC-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms or affections.
2. Diseased with pleurisy. – Arbuthnot.

PLEV'IN, n. [Old Fr.]

A warrant of assurance. [Obs.].

PLEX'I-FORM, a. [L. plexus, a fold, and form.]

In the form of net-work; complicated. – Quincy.