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Upper leather. Shak.

To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil. [Obs.]

To please excessively.

The interior chaff or husk of grasses.

Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleæ, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.

Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.

A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.

Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.

Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head. Pileated woodpecker (Zoöl.), a large American woodpecker (Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.

tiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answ…

To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak.

tempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor! Job xvi. 21.

Capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law. Dryden.

One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.

The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.

In a pleading manner.

The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic] Shak. "Full great pleasance." Chaucer. "A realm of pleasance." Tennyson.

Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather. Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1.