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40. ( Latham.) plaining (plā'ning), n. [Verbal n. of plain2, v. ] Mourning; lamenting. And in your clefts her plainings doe not smother, But let that echo teach it to another! W. Browne , Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 1. plainly (plān'li), adv . [ plainly , pleynly , plainliche , etc.; a ) Smoothly; evenly. (b) Clearly; without obstruction or deception; in a way to be easily perceived or understood; unmistakably. (c) Without disguise or homeline .=Syn. (d) Clearne , Lucidity , etc. See per- spicuity . plain-pug (plānʼpug), n. A British geometrid moth, Eupithecia sub not at a . plain-singing (plān's ing"ing), n . Same as plain - song . W. Mason , Eng. Church Music, iii. [Rare.] plainsman (plānz'man), n.; pl. plainsmen (-men). A dweller on the plains. 2. A cantus firm us or theme chosen for contra- puntal treatment: so called because often an actual fragment of plain-song.-3. The simple notes of an air, without ornament or variation; hence, a plain, unexaggerated statement. All the ladies do plainly report That without mention of them you can make no sport; They are your playne song , to singe descant upon. R. Edwards , Damon and Pythias. The humour of it is too hot, that is the very plain - song Shak . , Hen. V., iii. 2. 6. Audi . Lingua, thou strikest too much upon one string, Thy tedious plain - song grates my tender ears. Lin . Tis plain, indeed, for truth no discant needs. plain-speaking (plān ́spē"king), n . Plainne or bluntne of speech; candor; frankne , Roget. plain-spoken (plān'spō"kn), a . Speaking or spoken with plain, unreserved sincerity; frank. plaint (plant), n. [ ME.plainte , pleinte , pleynt , pleinte , F. plainte = Pr. planch = Sp. Ilan- to , OSp. pranto = Pg. pranto = It. pian to , planet a , f., plaint, L. planctus , a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lament a- tion, plangere , beat the breast, lament: see plain2 .] 1. Lamentation; complaint; audible expre ion of sorrow; a sad or serious song. Greet was the pite for to here hem pleyne, Thurgh whiche pleyntes gan her wo encre e. Chaucer , Man of Law's Tale, 1. 970. Thy accent will excell plaintful (plānt'fül), a . [ plaint + -ful.] Com- plaining; expre ing sorrow with an audible voice; also, containing a plaint. Hark, plaintful ghosts, infernal furies, hark Unto my woes the hateful heavens do send. tiff , plaintive . plaintiff (plān'tif), n . and a. [Formerly also plaint if , plaintife ; plaint if , playntyf , OF. plaint if , complaining; as a noun, one who complains, a plaintiff: see plaintive .] I. n. In law , the person who begins a suit before a tri- bunal for the recovery of a claim: opposed to defendant. And 'tis well that you Begin, else I had been the Plaintiff now. J. Beaumont , Psyche, iv. 20. Calling of the plaintiff. See calling . - Nominal plain- tiff, one who appears by name as plaintiff upon the record, but has no interest in the action. Also nominal party . II. a . Complaining. His younger Son on the polluted Ground, First Fruit of Death, lies Plaintiff of a wound plaintive (plantiv), a . [F. plaint if , lament- ing; plainte , lament: see plaint . Cf. plain- tiff .] 1+. Lamenting; complaining; giving ut- terance to sorrow or grief; repining. To soothe the sorrows of her plaintive son. Dryden, Iliad, i. 490. 2. Expre ive of sorrow or melancholy; mourn- ful; sad: said of things: as, a plaintive sound; a plaintive air; a plaintive song. Whose plaintive strain each love-sick mi admires, And o'er harmonious fustian half expires. -2. To braid; interweave the locks or strands of: as, to plait the hair. She has plaited her yellow locks A little abune her bree. I'll weave her Garlands, and I'll pleat her Hair. Prior, Henry and Emma. 3. To mat; felt. E. H. Knight . II.t in trans . To twist; twine. Byron, Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Syn. Plaintive , Querulous , woful, rueful. Plaintive and querulous agree in expre ing weakne . He who is querulous is ready to find fault over trivial matters, and in a weak, captious, tired way; there is a tone recognized as querulous . Plaintive is rarely said of persons; a plain- 5t. Tangled; intricate. 4. Braided; interwoven: as, plaited hair. Though barks or plaited willows make your hive, A narrow inlet to their cells contrive. tive tone or utterance conveys a subdued regret or lamen- tation: as, the plaintive note of the mourning dove. See petulant . The plaintive wave, as it broke on the shore, Seemed sighing for rest for evermore. Quickened the fire and laid the board, Mid the crone's angry, querulous word Of surly wonder. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 69. plaintively (plānʼtiv-li), adv . In a plaintive manner; mournfully; sadly. plaintivene (plān ́tiv-nes), n . The quality of being plaintive; mournfulne . plaintle (plant'les), a . [ plaint + -le .] Without complaint; unrepining. By woe, the soul to daring action swells; By woe, in plaintle patience it excels. quail of the genus Pedionomus : as, the collared plain - wanderer , P. torquatus . [A book-name.] plain-work (plan'werk), n . Plain needlework, as distinguished from embroidery. plaisancet, n. [F. plaisance , pleasance: see pleasance .] An obsolete form of pleasance . Plaisance , and joy, and a lively spirit, and a pleasant conversation, and the innocent care es of a charitable humanity, is not forbidden. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 742. plaiset, n. See plaice . plaister, n. and v. An obsolete or archaic form plait (plāt), n. [Also plat , pleat , and (obs.) plight ; early mod. E. also playt , pleyght , etc.; plaite , playte , pleit , plet , ploit , F. pli , a fold, ply, = Pr. pleg , plec = Sp. pliegue = Pg. prega = It. piega , a fold, plictum , neut., * plicta , fem., for plicatum , plicata , neut. and fem. of L. plicatus , pp. of plicare , fold: see ply .] 1. A flattened gather or fold; an over- lapping fold made by doubling cloth or some similar fabric in narrow strips upon itself. They vse all one maner of appareyle: as longe coates withowte pleyghtes and with narrowe sleaues, after the maner of the Hungary ans. R. Eden , tr. of Sigismundus Liberus (First Books on [America, ed. Arber, p. 320). IMG:content-0327.png:[blocks in formation] plait-work (plat' werk), n . means of interlacing or interwoven bands, seeming as if plaited together. Compare strap- work. plakat (plak'at), n. [Siamese name.] The fighting-fish. plan (plan), n . [= D. G. Dan. Sw.plan , plan , a ground-plot of a building (= Sp. plan , plano = Pg. plano = It. piano ), plan , flat, a later form than the vernacular plain , plan us , flat, plane: see plain1 , planel .] 1. The repre- sent at i on of anything drawn on a plane, as a map or chart; specifically, the representation of a building or other structure in horizontal section, as it stands or is intended to stand on the ground, showing its extent, and the division and distribution of its area into apartments, rooms, pa ages, etc., or its method of construc- tion and the relation of its parts. The raised plan of a building is the same as an elevation . A geometrical plan is one drawn to scale, or one in which the solid and vacant parts are represented in their natural proportions. A But in and cam the Queen hersel, Wi' gowd plait on her hair. Mary Hamilton (Child's Ballads, III. 325). perspective plan is one the lines of which follow the rules plan of perspective, thus showing more distant parts smaller than they are in fact in relation to the nearer-parts. The term plan may be applied to the draft or representation of any projected work on paper or on a plane surface: as, the plan of a town or city, or of a harbor or fort. See cuts under camp and canal - lock . 2. Disposition of parts according to a certain design. Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze! but not without a plan . to have arisen in the primordial geologic period in the direct line of descent of the remote an- cestors of the human race. Haeckel . planar (plā'när), a . [L. planar - ius , flat: see planary .] Lying in a plane; planary; flat.- Planar dyadic. See dyadic . Planaria (plā-nāʼri-ä), n . [NL. (Müller, 1776), planar i us , flat.] The typical genus of Planariidæ . P. torva is an example. Man only mars kind Nature's plan , And turns the fierce pursuit on man.