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Of pleasing speech.

In a pleasant manner.

The state or quality of being pleasant.

That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit. Addison. The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finis…

To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton.

Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.

An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. [Obs.] Shak.

One who pleases or gratifies.

Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. "Pleasing harmony." Shak. "Pleasing features." Macaulay. -- Pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ing*ness, n.

Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.

l, or satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain, Ant: sorrow, etc. At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Ps. xvi. 11.

Affording pleasure. [R.]

Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.

A pleasure seeker. Dickens.

A person devoted to worldly pleasure. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

See Plait.

Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

Containing many nuclei.

Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.

A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in