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The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. "The birthplace of valor." Burns.

The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

A retired or private place.

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] "Complacential love." Baxter.

In a complacent manner.

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

Capable of being displaced.

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One that displaces.

To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes. -- n.

A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. [R.] Daniel.