plug valve

A tapering valve fitting into a seat like a faucet. plug, *plugge, v. t. [PLUG, 8.] To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole in. "In flasks plugged with cotton-wool."-London Daily Telegraph. plug-ger, s . [Eng. plug, v.; -er.] One who or that which plugs; spec if., a dentist's instrument for packing filling material into an excavated hole in a carious tooth. plug-ging, pr. par., a. & s. [PLUG, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. The act of stopping with a plug. 2. Pins driven into the joints of brick or stone walls to receive the nails whereby battens are fastened to the walls. Plugging the nostril is a temporary remedy in some extreme cases of Epistaxis (q. v.). plugging-forceps, s . A dentist's instrument used in compre ing filling into an excavated hole in a carious tooth. plûke, s . [Gael. plucan .) A pimple. plû-kě-nět-I-a, s. [Named by Plumier after Leonard Plukenet, an English botanist.] Botany : A genus of Acalyphee. Climbers, with woody stems, alternate cordate leaves, and four celled ovary. Plukenetia corniculata is cultivated in Amboyna for its leaves, which are used as a potherb.