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s. (plot, Saxon.) 1. A small extent of ground (Tu er). 2. A plantation laid out (Sidney). 3. A form; a scheme; a plan (Spenser). 4. A conspiracy; a secret design formed against another (Daniel). 5. An intrigue; an affair complicated, involved, and embarra ed (I?oscommon). 6. Stratagem; secret combination to an ill end (Milten). Contrivance; deep reach of thought. To Piotr. v. x. (from the noun.) 1. To form schemes of mischief against another (Dryden). 2.'To contrive; to scheme (Wotton). To Prot. v. a. 1. To plan; to contrive (Dryden). 2. To describe according to ichnography. Prot (Robert), a learned antiquary, born at Sutton Barn, Kent, in 1641, Kite aten at Oxford, where he took his degree of LL.D. in k671. He was secretary to the royal society, and published their philosophical transactiong from No. 143 to 160 inclusive: he was pro= fe or of chemistry at Oxford; keeper of the” Ashmolean Museum, and historiographer to James II. also Mowbray herald extraordinary, He wrote the natural history of Oxtordshire and Staff ords hire, in folio, besides several pieces in the philosophical transactions. He died of the stone in 1696.