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istresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow- feeling; commiseration. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. Prov. xix. 17. He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. Shak.

mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell." Tennyson. Cattle plague. See Rinderpest. -- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.

to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles." Keats. Far below him plashed the waters. Longfellow.

xpression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow.

A playfellow. [Obs.] [Also, playfeer, playphere.] Holinsheld.

A companion in diversions; a playfellow.

heerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow. From grave to light, from pleasant to serve. Dryden.

rced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow.

ce, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. "A point of precedence." Selden. "Creeping on from point to point." Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. Chaucer.

ak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.

d; hence, to be in suspense or doubt. The slender, graceful spars Poise aloft in air. Longfellow.

To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over. Longfellow.

The price of carriage; porterage. Bp. Fell.

ation is to make earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9. The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. Longfellow.

st, or conjurer, among the North American Indians. Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow. Longfellow.

ous; fussy and positive; meddlesome. "Pragmatical officers of justice." Sir W. Scott. The fellow grew so pragmatical that he took upon him the government of my whole family. Arbuthnot.

mountains. From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the northland. Longfellow.

rs. He made those excellent prayers which were published immediately after his death. Bp. Fell. Prayer book, a book containing devotional prayers. -- Prayer meeting, a meeting or gathering for prayer to God.

erve as prelude to; to precede as introductory. [Music] preluding some great tragedy. Longfellow

A medical prescription. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.