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Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.

Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.

Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.

So tight as to exclude rain as, a rain-tight roof.

The sister of one's husband or wife; also, the wife of one's brother; sometimes, the wife of one's husband's or wife's brother.

Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. Lowell.

The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents. To take me as for thy son in lawe. Chaucer.

Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.

Same as Wringbolt.

A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.

cented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel.

ny (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

el, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) Onr from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]

A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.

Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin- hydrochloric acid.

A mineral occuring in thin-bladed crystals and crystalline aggregates, of a sky-blue color. It is a silicate of aluminium. [Written also kyanite.]

A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Ruth. i. 11.