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Peck technically phrased a great upas-tree of a total, branching out into types, cases, printing-pre es, engines, .,. my father's fortune was reduced to a sum of between seven and eight you sand pounds. Bulwer , Caxtons, xi. 6. ( Davies .) The entire plant , and even the fuel, were transported on heavy waggons acro the Karroo, at an enormous cost to the young settlement. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 880. 6. Concealed plunder. [Thieves' slang.] -7. A trick; dodge; swindle; artifice. [Slang.] It wasn't a bad plant , that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou'-Western Railway debentures. Dickens. Such-and-such an author says that so-and-so was "burnt alive," followed by a silly smattering of righteous indignation at what never happened, while the dispa ionate scholar finds the whole thing a plant . N. and Q., 7th ser., IX. 50. 8. In fish - culture , a deposit of fry or eggs.9. pl . Oysters which have been bedded: in distinction from natives : as, Virginia plants . [A market-term, applied chiefly to Virginia oysters bedded in Providence River.]-10. pl . Young oysters suitable for planting or transplantation. -Ballast-plants. See ballast. - Blind, herbaceous, luminous, etc., plants. See the adjectives. - Flowering plant. See Phanerogam i a . Indicative plants, species which, in their natural habitat, are reputed to in dicate the presence of certain minerals. [U. S.]-Movement of plants. See movement . - Parasitic plants. See parasitic . Pot-plant, potted plant, a plant grown in a flower-pot, as in conservatories and hothouses. Syn. 4. See vegetable , n.