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A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men. "In cubic phalanx firm advanced." Milton. The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower. Pope.

See Fane. [Obs.] Joye.

A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion. Cudworth. Figures or little features, of which the description had produced in you no phantasm or expectation. Jer. Taylor.

See Fantastic.

See Fantasy, and Fancy.

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]

(Dancing) A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together; as, to cut a pigeonwing.

ntle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.

igures. -- Plain sewing, sewing of seams by simple and common stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.; -- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments. -- Plain song. (a) The Gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison, in tones of equ…

and ethical conception of the laws and forces of the universe; sometimes, imaginative or fantastic philosophical notions.

ice artifice. -- To play upon. (a) To make sport of; to deceive. Art thou alive Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight. Shak.

Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer. -- Play"ful*ly, adv. -- Play"ful*ness, n.

Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf. -- Pli"cate*ly, adv.

poison sumac (Rhus venenata). [U. S.] -- Poison dogwood (Bot.), poison sumac. -- Poison fang (Zoöl.), one of the superior maxillary teeth of some species of serpents, which, besides having the cavity for the pulp, is either perforated or grooved by a longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of the poiso…

After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.

of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm. "The power of fancy." Shak.

s so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.

To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. "And prink their hair with daisies." Cowper.

They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.

One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.