Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 81
Pluff (n.) A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder. [Scot.]
Pluff (n.) A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it. [Scot.]
Plug (n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
Plug (n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
Plug (n.) A high, tapering silk hat.
Plug (n.) A worthless horse.
Plug (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
Plugged (imp. & p. p.) of Plug
Plugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plug
Plug (v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Plugger (n.) One who, or that which, plugs.
Plugging (n.) The act of stopping with a plug.
Plugging (n.) The material of which a plug or stopple is made.
The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. -- G. Bentham.
Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from the Prunus domestica are described; among them the greengage, the Orleans, the purple gage, or Reine Claude Violette, and the German prune, are some of the best known.
Note: Among the true plums are;
Beach plum, The Prunus maritima, And its crimson or purple globular drupes,
Bullace plum. See Bullace.
Chickasaw plum, The American Prunus Chicasa, and its round red drupes.
Orleans plum, A dark reddish purple plum of medium size, much grown in England for sale in the markets.
Wild plum of America, Prunus Americana, With red or yellow fruit, the original of the Iowa plum and several other varieties.
Among plants called plum, but of other genera than Prunus, are;
Australian plum, Cargillia arborea and Cargillia australis, Of the same family with the persimmon.
Blood plum, The West African H[ae]matostaphes Barteri.
Cocoa plum, The Spanish nectarine. See under Nectarine.
Date plum. See under Date.
Gingerbread plum, The West African Parinarium macrophyllum.
Gopher plum, The Ogeechee lime.
Gray plum, Guinea plum. See under Guinea.
Indian plum, Several species of Flacourtia
Plum (n.) A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
Plum (n.) Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay.
Plum (n.) A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.
Plum bird, Plum budder (Zool.), The European bullfinch.
Plum gouger (Zool.), A weevil, or curculio ({Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva bores into the stone and eats the kernel.
Plum weevil (Zool.), An American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines, cherries, and many other stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the pulp around the stone. Called also turk, and plum curculio. See Illust. under Curculio.
Plum (adv.) Exactly; "fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" [syn: plumb, plum].
Plum (adv.) Completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: clean, plumb, plum].
Plum (n.) Any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone [syn: plum, plum tree].
Plum (n.) Any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit.
Plum (n.) A highly desirable position or assignment; "a political plum".
Plum, () A compiler for a substantial subset of PL/I for the Univac 1100, from the University of Maryland.
["PL/I Programming with PLUM", M.V. Zelkowitz, Paladin House, 1978].
(1995-02-23)
Plum, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 26940
Housing Units (2000): 10624
Land area (2000): 28.628230 sq. miles (74.146772 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.385414 sq. miles (0.998217 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 29.013644 sq. miles (75.144989 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61536
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.494110 N, 79.754477 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15239
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Plumae (n. pl. ) of Pluma
Pluma (n.) A feather.
Plumage (n.) The entire clothing of a bird.
Plumassary (n.) A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.
Plumassier (n.) One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.
Plumb (n.) A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below.
Plumb (a.) Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.
Plumb (adv.) In a plumb direction; perpendicularly.
Plumbed (imp. & p. p.) of Plumb
Plumbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plumb
Plumb (v. t.) To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.
Plumb (v. t.) To sound with a plumb or plummet, as the depth of water; hence, to examine by test; to ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test.
Plumb (v. t.) To seal with lead; as, to plumb a drainpipe.
Plumb (v. t.) To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.
Plumbage (n.) Leadwork
Plumbagin (n.) A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family.
Plumbagineous (a.) Pertaining to natural order (Plumbagineae) of gamopetalous herbs, of which Plumbago is the type. The order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.
Plumbaginous (a.) Resembling plumbago; consisting of, or containing, plumbago; as, a plumbaginous slate.
Plumbago (n.) Same as Graphite.
Plumbago (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.
Plumbean (a.) Alt. of Plumbeous
Plumbeous (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, lead.
Plumbeous (a.) Dull; heavy; stupid.
Plumber (n.) One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.
Plumber block () A pillow block.
Plumbery (n.) The business of a plumber.
Plumbery (n.) A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works.
Plumbic (a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.
Plumbiferous (a.) Producing or containing lead.
Plumbing (n.) The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.
Plumbing (n.) The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.
Plumbism (n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist.
Plumbous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.
Plumbum (n.) The technical name of lead. See Lead.
Plume (v.) A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.
Plume (v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.
Plume (v.) A feather, or group of feathers, worn as an ornament; a waving ornament of hair, or other material resembling feathers.
Plume (v.) A token of honor or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
Plume (v.) A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
Plumed (imp. & p. p.) of Plume
Pluming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plume
Plume (v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.
Plume (v. t.) To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
Plume (v. t.) To adorn with feathers or plumes.
Plume (v. t.) To pride; to vaunt; to boast; -- used reflexively; as, he plumes himself on his skill.
Plumeless (a.) Without plumes.
Plumelet (n.) A small plume.
Plumery (n.) Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.
Plumicorn (n.) An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.
Plumigerous (a.) Feathered; having feathers.
Plumiliform (a.) Having the of a plume or feather.
Plumiped (a.) Having feet covered with feathers.
Plumiped (n.) A plumiped bird.
Plummet (n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.
I'll sink him deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -- Shak.
Plummet (n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.
Plummet (n.) Hence, any weight.
Plummet (n.) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
Plummet line, a line with a plummet; a sounding line.
Plummet (n.) The metal bob of a plumb line [syn: plumb bob, plumb, plummet].
Plummet (v.) Drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted" [syn: plummet, plump].
Plumming (n.) (Min.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
Plummy (a.) Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous. [Colloq.] "For the sake of getting something plummy." -- G. Eliot. Plumose
Plummy (a.) Very desirable; "a plummy leading role".
Plummy (a.) (Of a voice) Affectedly mellow and rich; "the radio announcer's plummy voice".
Plumose (a.) Alt. of Plumous
Plumous (a.) Having feathers or plumes.
Plumous (a.) Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.
Plumose (a.) Having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft [syn: plumate, plumed, plumose].
Plumosite (n.) Same as Jamesonite.
Plumosity (n.) The quality or state of being plumose.
Plump (adv.) Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
Plump (n.) A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
Plump (a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
Plump (a.) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
Plump (a.) To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
Plumped (imp. & p. p.) of Plump
Plumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plump
Plump (v. t.) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.
Plump (v. t.) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
Plump (v. t.) To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
Plump (a. & v.) Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Plumper (n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.
Plumper (n.) A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote.
Plumper (n.) A voter who plumps his vote.
Plumper (n.) A downright, unqualified lie.
Plumply (adv.) Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve.
Plumpness (n.) The quality or state of being plump.
Plumpy (a.) Plump; fat; sleek.
Plumule (n. pl. ) of Plumula
-las (n. pl. ) of Plumula