plus

[Lat.=more.] Math .: A character, marked thus +, used as a note or sign of addition. When placed between two quantities or numbers it signifies that these quantities or numbers are to be added together; thus, a + b or 2-3 means that a and b or 2 and 3 are to be added together. plush, s . & a. [Fr. peluche , from a Low Latin * pilucius hairy, from Lat. pilus hair; cf. Sp. pelusa down, nap; Ital. peluzzo =fine hair, down; Dut. plu is fluff, plush; Ger. plüsch .] A. As substantive: Fabric : A shaggy pile-cloth of various materials. An unshorn velvet of cotton, silk, or mixed fiber, sometimes of a silk nap and cotton back. It has two warps, one of which is brought to the surface to make the nap. The warp is gathered in loops by wire, and cut in the manner of velvet. It is composed regularly of a woof of a single woolen thread and a double warp; the one wool of two threads twisted, the other goat's or camel's hair. Some imitation plushes are made of other materials. B. As adj.: Made of, or resembling, the material described under A. plush copper-ore, s. [CHALCOTRICHITE.] plush-er, s. [Etym. doubtful; cf. plasher.] A kind of sea-fish. "The pilchard is devoured by a bigger kind of fish called a plusher , somewhat like the dog-fish, who leapeth above water, and therethrough bewrayeth them to the balker."-Carew: Survey of Cornwall.