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Supplicatory; making a petition. Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen. Shak.

The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.

One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant. [R.] Fuller.

Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating. Sir W. Hamilton. Petitory suit or action (Admiralty Law), a suit in which the mere title to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots Law), a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant. Burril…

The application of light for therapeutic purposes, esp. for treating diseases of the skin. -- Pho`to*the*rap"ic (#), Pho`to*ther`a*peu"tic (#), a.

A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.

A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.

put a rod in pickle, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.

A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. Polish plait. (Med.) Same as Plica.

oning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the ve…

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster…

To use in a droll manner; to give a droll expression or application to; as, to play upon words.

her; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor! Job xvi. 21.…

Like network; complicated. Quincy.

Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot. I have overheard a plot of death. Shak. O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and t…

Characterized by polysyndeton, or the multiplication of conjunctions. -- Pol`y*syn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

Hence, in very various applications:

The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact. Bacon.