Ply

pli, v. [plied (plid), plying.] To fold or cover Poco, over; to put to or on with force and repetition; to indicating urge, solicit importunately; to employ with dilirather gence, keep busy; to practice or perform diligently; to pre , strain, force, — v.i. To work steadily; to having fo with diligence or pertinacity; to busy one's self, and e steadily employed. (Navt.) To endeavor to Pod, make way'against the wind. To make regular trips. his cent — n. A fold; plait; a bent; turn; direction; bias. [F. a plier, to fold, plait, bend, turn, L. plicare, -catum, to perh. fold, Gr. /ilekein, to weave, G-flechten, to braid, plait, Podagric, twist (whence, prob., G.flachs = E.flax, q. v.); afflicted apply, accomplice, complicate, explicit, perplex, defr. ploy, display, employ, simple, double, triple, multiply, catching.]— plagiary, plait, plot, etc.]— Pli'able, a. Capable A of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; of readily yielding to moral influence, arguments, per- [Gr. suasion, or discipline: supple; limber. — Pli 'able- Poe, ne , -ability, n. — Pli'ant, a. ed Capable of plying or bending; Hawaii easily bent; easily influenced to Poem, good or evil easy to be per composition suaded; trnctab'e: "docile; obseerne, quious.— Pli'antne , -ancy, composition, n. State of beim; pliant. — Pli'- -e-8i, cate,-kat,-cated,o. (Bot.) Plait metrical ed; folded like a fan. [h.pli faculty.] p. p. of plicare.] — Plex'us, skilled Physiol.) Any net-work of or ve els, nerves,nerves, or or fibers.fibers. [L.,fL., p.p — p. of of plectere,plectere, to to twine,twine, braid braid, compose freq. of plicare.] — Plex'iform Plicate Leaf. — -T-fSrm, a. In the form of net writer work; complicated. [L. plexus and form a, form.] — poet.] Pli'ers, n. pi. A kind of pincers, by which any small pre ed object may be seized and bent. poetry.— Pneumatic, nu-matlk, -ical, a. Con poetry. sisting of, or resembling, air; pert. write to air, or to elastic fluids or their Modes properties moved or played by suitable means of air adapted to, or used ted; for, experiments with gases; fitted Pliers. position, to contain air. — Pneumatics, n. Poh, Science of the mechanical properties of air and other pre ing elastic fluids. [Gr. pneumatikos, pert, to wind, breath, Poignant, cube, full moon, fdbt cow, oil linger POIGNANT air, pnevmn, -matos, wind, pneein, to blow.] — -ina-tol'o-jT, n. Doctrine of, or treaon, air and other elastic fluids. (Philos. & Theol.) — of, or treatise on, spiritual existences. n. A gasometer to measuie the of air taken into the lungs, and given out, each inspiration and expiration. [Gr. metron, — Pneumo 'nia, -mo'nt-a, n. {Med.) Inof the lungs, with fever, difficult breath etc. [Gr., pneumon, pleumon, a lung, )me pulmonary.] — Pneumonic, a. Pert, to the — n. A medicine for affections of the lungs. poch. [poached (pocht), poaching.] To (eggs) by breaking them into a ve el of boiling to cook (egi:s) with butter after breaking in ve el. [F. pocher, perh. poche, a pouch, q. v. the yolk of a well poached egg retaining round form.] poch, v. To rob of game; to plunder, —v. steal or pocket game, or to carry away privately, in a bag. [F. jjocher, to incroach upon another's NormF. }>oquer, to carry in the pocket, pocket see Pouch.] — Poach'er, n. pok, n. (Med.) A pustule raised on the surface the body in an eruptive disease, as the small-pox. poc, D. pok, pucoid, a pustule, pucadh, a — Pock'-mark, n. Mark or scar made by small-pox.— Pock'y, a. [-ier; -iest.] Full of infected with the small-pox vile rascally — Pox', n. (Med.) Any one of the small-pox, chicken-pox, the vaccine disand the venereal disease or syphilis, — the last signified when no qualifying word used. — [poxed (pokst), poxing.] To infect with [For pocks, of pock.] pok'et, n. Any small bag, esp. one inserted a garment a large bag tor holding various arti- (Min.) A small cavity in a rock, containing etc. — To put, or conceal, in a pocket; to clandestinely. fNLE.poket, dim. of Norm. poque, poke, a bag/poke, q. v.]— To pocket an insult or To receive without resenting it— Pock'etn. A small book, or case, for carrying papers, — etc., in the pocket. gla , n. A portable —knife, n. A kniie with blades which into the handle so as to be carried in the pocket. po'ko, adv. (Mus.) A — used in phrases the time or movement as, poco largo, slow poco a poco, little by gradually. — Poco-cu'rantism, -ku-rantlzm, n. State of little care or interest; indifference. poco curante, caring, curare, to care.] pod, n. A capsule of a plant, esp. a legume; a defruit. [Da.n.'pude, cushion, Ga. put, large buoy made of an inflated sheep-skin, confused with cod pudding.] po-daglik, -rical, a. Pert, to, or with the gout. [Gr. podagra, gout, pous, podos, a foot, q. v., and agra, Pod'ophil line, -fill in, n. (Mea.jmK cathartic principle obtained from the root r the may-apple (Podophyllum peltatum). pous and phullon, leaf.] po'e, n. Food prepared from the pound baked roots of the taro plant, used in and other islands of the Pacific. po'em, n. A metrical composition a in verse, — opp. to prose. [F. po- Pod- L. poem a, Gr. poiema, a piece of workmanship, poem, fr. poiein, to make.] — Po'esy, n. Art or skill of composing poems poetry composition. [F. poesie, Gr. poiesis, poetic — Po'et, n. The author of a poem; one in making poetry an imaginative thinker writer. [ME. and F. poete, L. poet a, Gr. poietes.] Poet laureate. In Eng., a court poet, employed to poems for special occasions: see Laureate. Po'ete , n. A female poet. — Po'etas'ter, n. A of bad poetry. [OF. poetastre. an ignorant — Poetic, -ical, a. Pert., suitable to, exin, or po e ing the peculiar beauties of.