Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 82
Plumula (n.) (Bot.) A plumule.
Plumula (n.) (Zool.) A down feather.
Plumule (n.) Down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds.
Plumulaceous (a.) (Zool.) Downy; bearing down.
Plumular (a.) (Bot.) Relating to a plumule.
Plumularlae (n. pl. ) of Plumularia.
Plumularias (n. pl. ) of Plumularia.
Plumularia (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms.
Plumularian (n.) (Zool.) Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively.
Plumule (n.) (Bot.) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle. -- Gray.
Plumule (n.) (Zool.) A down feather.
Plumule (n.) (Zool.) The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather.
Plumule (n.) (Zool.) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.
Plumule, (Plumula, n.; pl.) (Bot.) A plumule.
Plumule, (Plumula, n.; pl.) (Zool.) A down feather.
Plumule (n.) Down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds.
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. "His plumy crest." -- Addison. "The plumy trees." -- J. S. Blackie.
Plumy (a.) Resembling a plume; "the dog's plumy tail" [syn: plumelike, plumy].
Plumy (a.) Having or covered with or abounding in plumes; "the plumed serpent"; "white-plumed egrets" [syn: plumed, plumy].
Plumy (a.) Adorned with feathers or plumes [syn: feathery, feathered, plumy].
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.) 使投入；將……插入；將……刺進；使突然前傾 [O]；使陷入，使遭受 [O] 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. "To plunge the boy in pleasing sleep." -- Dryden.
Bound and plunged him into a cell. -- Tennyson.
We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. -- I. Watts.
Plunge (v. t.) To baptize by immersion.
Plunge (v. t.) To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
Plunged and graveled with three lines of Seneca. -- Sir T. Browne.
Plunge (v. i.) 投（入）；跳（入）；衝 [Q]；陷（入）[Q ] 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.
Forced to plunge naked in the raging sea. -- Dryden.
To plunge into guilt of a murther. -- Tillotson.
Plunge (v. i.) To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
Some wild colt, which . . . flings and plunges. -- Bp. Hall.
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. [Cant]
{Plunging fire} (Gun.), Firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position.
Plunge (n.) [U] 跳入，衝進 [S]；猛跌，驟降 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.
She was brought to that plunge, to conceal her husband's murder or accuse her son. -- Sir P. Sidney.
And with thou not reach out a friendly arm, To raise me from amidst this plunge of sorrows? -- Addison.
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. [Cant]
{Plunge bath}, An immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
{Plunge battery}, or {plunging battery} (Elec.), A voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
Plunge (n.) A brief swim in water [syn: {dip}, {plunge}].
Plunge (n.) A steep and rapid fall.
Plunge (v.) Thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in hot water" [syn: {immerse}, {plunge}].
Plunge (v.) Drop steeply; "the stock market plunged" [syn: {dive}, {plunge}, {plunk}].
Plunge (v.) Dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity; "She plunged at it eagerly."
Plunge (v.) Begin with vigor; "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure" [syn: {plunge}, {launch}].
Plunge (v.) Cause to be immersed; "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text" [syn: {plunge}, {immerse}].
Plunge (v.) Fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn: {plunge}, {dump}].
Plunge (v.) Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint" [syn: {dunk}, {dip}, {souse}, {plunge}, {douse}].
Plunge (v.) Devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies" [syn: {steep}, {immerse}, {engulf}, {plunge}, {engross}, {absorb}, {soak up}].
Plunge (v.) [No object, with adverbial] Jump or dive quickly and energetically.
‘Our little daughters whooped as they plunged into the sea.’
Plunge (v.) Fall suddenly and uncontrollably.
‘A car swerved to avoid a bus and plunged into a ravine.’
Plunge (v.) Embark impetuously on a speech or course of action.
‘He came to a decision, and plunged on before he had time to reconsider it.’
Plunge (v.) Suffer a rapid decrease in value.
‘Shares in the company plunged 18p on news that profits had fallen.’
Plunge (v.) (Of a ship) Pitch.
‘The ship plunged through the 20-foot seas.’
Plunge (v.) [No object] (Of a horse) Rear violently.
‘The frightened horse plunged and bolted.’
Plunge (v.) [With object and adverbial] Push or thrust quickly.
‘He plunged his hands into his pockets.’
Plunge (v.) Quickly immerse in liquid.
‘To peel fruit, cover with boiling water and then plunge them into iced water.’
Plunge (v.) Suddenly bring into a specified condition or state.
‘For a moment the scene was illuminated, then it was plunged back into darkness.’
Plunge (v.) [With object] Sink (a pot containing a plant) in the ground.
‘Pot up and plunge spring-flowering bulbs’
Plunge (n.) An act of jumping or diving into water.
‘Fanatics went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge.’
Plunge (n.) A swift and drastic fall in value or amount.
‘The central bank declared a 76% plunge in its profits.’
Take the plunge (ph.) [Informal] Commit oneself to a course of action about which one is nervous.
‘She wondered whether to enter for the race, but decided to take the plunge.’
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. [Cant]
Plunger (n.) (Pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence. -- Knight.
Plunger (n.) (Gun.) The firing pin of a breechloader.
Plunger bucket, A piston, without a valve, in a pump.
Plunger pole, The pump rod of a pumping engine.
Plunger pump, A pump, as for water, having a plunger, instead of a piston, to act upon the water. It may be single-acting or double-acting.
Plunger (n.) Someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains [syn: speculator, plunger].
Plunger (n.) Someone who dives (into water) [syn: diver, plunger].
Plunger (n.) Hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains [syn: plunger, plumber's helper].
Plunger (n.) Mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion [syn: piston, plunger].
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.
Compare: Preterpluperfect
Preterpluperfect (a. & n.) (Gram.) Old name of the tense also called pluperfect.
Pluperfect (a.) More than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision."
Pluperfect (n.) A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect" [syn: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, 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.) 兼職，兼任；多重性；【哲】多元論 The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.
Pluralism (n.) (Eccl.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time. [Eng.]
Pluralism (n.) A social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated.
Pluralism (n.) The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements [ant: {monism}].
Pluralism (n.) The practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time.
Pluralist (n.) (Eccl.) 兼任數個宗教職位者；多元論者 A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. [Eng.]
Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. -- Macaulay.
Pluralist (n.) A cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time.
Pluralist (n.) A philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature.
Pluralist (n.) Someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society.
pluralities (n. 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 (n. pl. ) of Pluteus.
Pluteuses (n. 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.
Plutonium (n.) [Mass noun] 【化】鈽 The chemical element of atomic number 94, a dense silvery radioactive metal of the actinide series, used as a fuel in nuclear reactors and as an explosive in nuclear fission weapons. Plutonium only occurs in trace amounts in nature but is manufactured in nuclear reactors from uranium-238.
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.