platband

[Fr. plate - bande, from plat, fem plate flat, and bande band.] 1. Hort .: A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall, or the side of a parterre. 2. Architecture : silver. plat a-verde, s. Mining : A native bromide of silver found in Mexico. plate plāte, s . [Fr., prop. the fem. of plat =flat (cf. Low Lat. plat a =a plate of metal; Sp. plat a =plate, silver), from Gr. plat us =broad, whence Dut. & Dan. plat ; Ger. & Sw. platt =flat.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A piece of metal beaten out or flattened to an even surface with a uniform thickne ; a sheet of metal; as, the plates of a boiler. 2. The same as PLATE-ARMOR (q. v.). 3. A small shallow ve el of metal, china, earthenware, ., for table service. Pewter and wood were for many centuries the ordinary ware; afterward earthenware. Pepys complains that at the Lord Mayor's dinner in 1663, the major part of the guests had "no napkins nor change of trenchers, and drank out of earthen pitchers" and ate from "wooden dishes." 4. A piece of metal to be attached to an object; as, a name-plate, a door-plate, . "An old red-brick house, with three steps before the door, and a bra plate upon it."-Dickens: Pickwick , 5. A piece of service of silver, gold, or their imitations; a piece or pieces of silver, gold, or other precious ware, given to the winner of a contest, as in horse-racing, yachting, . 6. Domestic utensils, as spoons, forks, knives, cups, dishes, ., of gold or silver. "When your first course was all served up in plate." King: Art of Cookery. *7. A piece of silver money. II. Technically : IMG:content-1188.jpg:[blocks in formation] 3146