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Plimsoll's mark
(Plim"soll's mark`) (Naut.) A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British
sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; — so called from Samuel
Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.
Plinth
(Plinth) n. [L. plinthus, Gr. a brick or tile, a plinth, perh. akin to E. flint: cf. F. plinthe.] (Arch.)
In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also,
the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block
upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column.
Pliocene
(Pli"o*cene) a. [Written also pleiocene.] (Geol.) Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most
recent division of the Tertiary age.
Pliocene
(Pli"o*cene), n. (Geol.) The Pliocene period or deposits.
Pliohippus
(||Pli`o*hip"pus) n. [NL., fr. E. pliocene + Gr. horse.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of horses
from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe as in the common horse.
Pliosaurus
(||Pli`o*sau"rus) n. [NL., from Gr. greater + lizard.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of marine
reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.
Plitt
(Plitt) n. [Russ. plete.] An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in
Russia.
Ploc
(Ploc) n. [F.] (Naut.) A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship.
Ploce
(||Plo"ce) n. [L., fr. Gr. complication, fr. to entwine.] (Rhet.) A figure in which a word is separated
or repeated by way of emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it, but also its
peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a wife indeed." Bailey.
Plod
(Plod) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Plodded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Plodding.] [Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also,
to strike or pelt with a clod or clods.]
1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. Shak.
2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.
Plod
(Plod), v. t. To walk on slowly or heavily.
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way.
Gray. Plodder
(Plod"der) n. One who plods; a drudge.
Plodding
(Plod"ding) a. Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as,
a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits. —Plod"ding*ly, adv.
Plonge
(Plonge) v. t. [See Plunge.] To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by
stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.
Plongée
(||Plon`gée") n. [F. See Plunge.] (Mil.) A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongée of a
parapet; the plongée of a shell in its course. [Sometimes written plonge.]
Plot
(Plot) n. [AS. plot; cf. Goth. plats a patch. Cf. Plat a piece of ground.]
1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. Shak.
2. A plantation laid out. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
