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The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his followers.

One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato. Hammond.

To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic philosophy. Enfield.

One who Platonizes.

Of pleasing speech.

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally. Quain. Dunglison.

Plutonic. Poe.

Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.

The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth''s crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory.

One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See Plutonism.

A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.

A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

eated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton.

See Pontoon.

A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building.

A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

A puppet, or little baby. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.