Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PLANT, v.t.

1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maiz.
2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree or a vegetable with roots.
3. To engender; to set the germ of any thing that may increase. It engenders choler, planteth anger. – Shak.
4. To set; to fix. His standard planted on Laurentum's towers. – Dryden.
5. To settle; to fix the first inhabitants; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
6. To furnish with plants; to lay out and prepare with plants; as, to plant a garden or an orchard.
7. To set and direct or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort.
8. To introduce and establish; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. – 1 Cor. iii.
9. To unite to Christ and fix in a state of fellowship with him. – Ps. xcii.