Plumula (n.) A plumule.
Plumula (n.) A down feather.
Plumulaceous (a.) Downy; bearing down.
Plumular (a.) Relating to a plumule.
Plumularlae (pl. ) of Plumularia
Plumularias (pl. ) of Plumularia
Plumularia (n.) Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms.
Plumularian (n.) Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.
Plumule (n.) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle.
Plumule (n.) A down feather.
Plumule (n.) The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather.
Plumule (n.) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.
Plumulose (a.) Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.
Plumy (a.) Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
Plundered (imp. & p. p.) of Plunder
Plundering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plunder
Plunder (v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
Plunder (v. t.) To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
Plunder (n.) The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
Plunder (n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
Plunder (n.) Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.
Plunderage (n.) The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.
Plunderer (n.) One who plunders or pillages.
Plunged (imp. & p. p.) of Plunge
Plunging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plunge
Plunge (v. t.) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war.
Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
Plunge (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
Plunge (v. i.) To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt.
Plunge (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
Plunge (v. i.) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
Plunge (n.) The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge.
Plunge (n.) Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
Plunge (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
Plunge (n.) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
Plunger (n.) One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.
Plunger (n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
Plunger (n.) One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.
Plunger (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
Plunger (n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
Plunket (n.) A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.
Pluperfect (a.) More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.
Pluperfect (n.) The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.
Plural (a.) Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word.
Plural (n.) The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.
Pluralism (n.) The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
Pluralism (n.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
Pluralist (n.) A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.
pluralities (pl. ) of Plurality
Plurality (n.) The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.
Plurality (n.) The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority.
Plurality (n.) See Plurality of benefices, below.
Pluralization (n.) The act of pluralizing.
Pluralized (imp. & p. p.) of Pluralize
Pluralizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pluralize
Pluralize (v. t.) To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.
Pluralize (v. t.) To multiply; to make manifold.
Pluralize (v. i.) To take a plural; to assume a plural form; as, a noun pluralizes.
Pluralize (v. i.) To hold more than one benefice at the same time.
Pluralizer (n.) A pluralist.
Plurally (adv.) In a plural manner or sense.
Pluri- () A combining form from L. plus, pluris, more, many; as pluriliteral.
Pluries (n.) A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded.
Plurifarious (a.) Of many kinds or fashions; multifarious.
Plurifoliolate (a.) Having several or many leaflets.
Pluriliteral (a.) Consisting of more letters than three.
Pluriliteral (n.) A pluriliteral word.
Plurilocular (a.) Having several cells or loculi
Plurilocular (a.) having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits.
Pluriparous (a.) Producing several young at a birth; as, a pluriparous animal.
Pluripartite (a.) Deeply divided into several portions.
Pluripresence (n.) Presence in more places than one.
Plurisy (n.) Superabundance; excess; plethora.
Plus (a.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.
Plus (a.) Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
Plush (n.) A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
Plushy (a.) Like plush; soft and shaggy.
Plutarchy (n.) Plutocracy; the rule of wealth.
Pluteal (a.) Of or pertaining to a pluteus.
Plutei (pl. ) of Pluteus
Pluteuses (pl. ) of Pluteus
Pluteus (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.
Pluto (n.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.
Plutocracy (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the wealthy classes; government by the rich; also, a controlling or influential class of rich men.
Plutocrat (n.) One whose wealth gives him power or influence; one of the plutocracy.
Plutocratic (a.) Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic ideas.
Plutology (n.) The science which treats of wealth.
Plutonian (a.) Plutonic.
Plutonian (n.) A Plutonist.
Plutonic (a.) Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.
Plutonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.
Plutonism (n.) The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory.
Plutonist (n.) One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.
Plutus (n.) The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit.
Pluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.
Pluvial (a.) Produced by the action of rain.
Pluvial (n.) A priest's cope.
Pluviameter (n.) See Pluviometer.
Pluviametrical (a.) See Pluviometrical.
Pluvian (n.) The crocodile bird.