ploy

[An abbrev. of employ (q.v.).] Employment; a harmle frolic; a merry meeting. ( Scotch.) "Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing, or some siccun ploy."-Scott: Waverley, ch. lxiv. ploy-é (as plwâ-yê), adj. [O. Fr., pa. par. of ployer to bend, to ply (q. v.).] Her.: Bowed and bent. plû-che-a, 8. [Named after Pluche, a French abbé.] Bot.: The typical genus of Plucheineæ.