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Straightforward; direct; direct; clear; open. A very plain and level account. M. Arnold.

A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of his cause of action, and of the relief he seeks.

ifficult; as, a light affliction or task. Chaucer. Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. Dryden.

An extensive plain with or without vegetation. [Spanish America]

corn be lodged, and trees blown down. Shak. To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.

long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.

Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.

l.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romalea microptera, which is injurious to orange trees in Florida. -- Lubber's hole (Naut.), a hole in the floor of the "top," next the mast, through which sailors may go aloft without going over the rim by the futtoc…

A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon. Goldsmith.

Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton.

form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sick…

Coarse plain India muslins.

rceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight. Heb. iv. 13. That which may be known of God is manifest in them. Rom. i. 19. Thus manifest to sight the god appeared. Dryden.…

ontemplated by him; as, a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives. Bouvier. it was proposed to draw up a manifesto, setting forth the grounds and motives of our taking arms. Addison . Frederick, in a public manifesto, appealed to the Empire against the insolent pretensions o…

ter, are simultaneously made, sheets of coloring paper being infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred.

To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

med at, treated of, or treated; subject of action, discussion, consideration, feeling, complaint, legal action, or the like; theme. "If the matter should be tried by duel." Bacon. Son of God, Savior of men ! Thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. Milton. Every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but ever…

ords; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph. [Written also merus.] Weale.

he extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. "A town of but middling size." Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne. -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness, n.