plashing1 (plashing)

[Verbal n. of plash1, v.] A dabbling in water; a sound of plunging water. plashing2 (plash'ing), n. [Verbal n. of plash2, v.] A mode of repairing or trimming a hedge, by bending down a part of the shoots, cutting them half through near the ground, to render them more pliable, and twisting them among the upright stems, so as to render the whole effective as a fence, and at the same time preserve all the branches alive. plashing-tool (plash'ing-töl), n. A knife used in plashing hedges; a hedging-knife. plashoott (plash'öt), n. [Appar. for * plashet, twig).] A fence made of branches of trees interwoven. Woodcocks arrive first on the north coast, where almost every hedges serveth for a road, and every plashoot for springles to take them. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall, p. 24. plash-wheel (plash'hwel), n. Same as dash wheel. plashy (plashʼi), a. [ IMG:content-0353.png:[blocks in formation] The out-wandering plasma so mes form the so-called para nuclei. Micros . Sci ., XXX. ii. 168. plasmatic (plas-mat'ik), a. [= F.plasm at i que, Working in this, by her [Psyche's] plasmatical spirits or archei, all the whole world into order and shape. Dr. H. More , Philos. Poems (1647), p. 342, notes. plasmationt (plas-ma's hon), n. [ The plasma tion or creation of Adam is reckoned among the generations. Grafton, Chron. i. 6. plasma to parous (plas-ma-top'a-rus), a. [ i ues as a spherical ma which at once becomes invested with a membrane and puts out a germ-tube. De Bary.