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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. Shak. And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail. Wyclif. The different plague of each calamity. Shak.

stitution; the plan of an expedition. God's plans like lines pure and white unfold. M. R. Smith.

the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.

To act; to behave; to practice deception. His mother played false with a smith. Shak.

as plenty as blackberries. Shak. (Folio ed.) Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith.

d; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically. "Plethoric phrases." Sydney Smith. "Plethoric fullness of thought." De Quincey.

en followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. Goldsmith.

Dull; heavy; stupid. [R.] J. P. Smith.

; bias. The late learners can not so well take the ply. Bacon. Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret plies of his character. W. Irving. The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the last. Macaulay.

ction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus. Dr. W. Smith.

Succeeding generations; future times. Shak. Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. Shak. Their names shall be transmitted to posterity. Smalridge.

ement in a dance. [R.] Tennyson. Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. J. & H. Smith.

A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's in the pouts." J. & H. Smith.

The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.

d, or necessary to an end or effect proposed. The necessary prerequisites of freedom. Goldsmith.

Preternaturalness. [R.] Dr. John Smith.

aring; proud delight; -- in a good sense. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride. Goldsmith. A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. Macaulay.

om the internal cemented surface, and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.

A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

Prolixity. Adam Smith.