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d the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art. J. S. Harford. Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called because used in making pottery. Lyell. -- Plastic element (Physiol.…

One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.

The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.

and to the church. Cowell. -- Plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applied. See Beam, n., 9. -- Plow Monday, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of Christmas holidays. -- Plow staff. (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow h…

The clevis or draught iron of a plow.

The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught. R. Browning.

iences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously. -- Pop"ish*ly, adv. -- Pop"ish*ness, n.

Slaughter of the people. [R.]

hak. The Porch, a public portico, or great hall, in Athens, where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence, sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics. It was called "h poiki`lh stoa`. [See Poicile.]

death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.

A draught. "Potations pottle deep." Shak.

A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine. Shak.

t for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do. "Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practice your severity." Shak. As this advice ye practice or neglect. Pope.

ed by Charles VI. of Germany, A. D. 1724, settled his hereditary dominions on his eldest daughter, the Archduchess Maria Theresa.

A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy. [Obs.] Shak.

Foresight. [Obs.] Naught might hinder his quick prejudize. Spenser.