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The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power.

Yielding abundance; productive; fruitful. "The seven plenteous years." Gen. xli. 34.

Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon.

cy; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of corn and wine." Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and plenty." Shak. Houses of office stuffed with plentee. Chaucer. The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world. Thomson.…

State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination. Jeffrey.

Superabundance; excess; plethora. [Obs.] Shak.

A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time.

A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca.

To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.]

A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. Dickens.

A ropedancer's balancing pole. Johnson.

One who dresses showily; a prinker. "A pranker or a dancer." Burton.

A leader in the dance. [R.]

laridæ) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.

rocess (Law), the process by which a jury is summoned in a cause, and by which their attendance is enforced. Burrill. -- Leblanc's process (Chem.), the process of manufacturing soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting with charcoal, and converting…

Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities. Addison.

A silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the Triassic sandstone.

The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.

tte; a wooden actor in a play. At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. Pope.

The state of being pursuant; consequence. In pursuance of, in accordance with; in prosecution or fulfillment of.