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A small parasol.

A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. "Dame Partlett, the hen." Shak.

A little ball; as, a pellet of wax .

Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. [R.] "This pelleted storm." Shak.

A lover of the truth. [Obs.] Brathwait.

Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

A light, thin cake or muffin. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

The willet.

A small pistol. Donne. Beau. & Fl.

A little plant.

To plead. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia.

Plethoric. [Obs.] Johnson.

Haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically. "Plethoric phrases." Sydney Smith. "Plethoric fullness of thought." De Quincey.

Plethoric. [R.] -- Ple*thor"ic*al*ly, adv. Burke.

Plethora. Jer. Taylor.

A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.

imb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb. -- Pleth`ys*mo*graph"ic, a.

The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.

A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.