plaice mouthed (plasmoutht)

Having a wry mouth like that of a plaice; wry-mouthed. And keep his plaise - mouth'd wife in welts and gardes. Lodge, in Beloe's Anec. of Scarce Books, II. 113. ( Nares.) and leaves, is a more complicated phenomenon. It is the resultant expre ion of the effect of light and of gravity upon them, promoted, in many cases, by their own weight. In some cases light, and in others gravity, is the determining factor. Vines, Physiol. of Plants, p. 502.