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Rustic; plain; simple; humble. [Obs.] A fourth man, in a sillyhabit. Shak. All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. Milton.

ed to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.

Vast woodland plains of South America.

and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress. "Simple truth." Spenser. "His simple story." Burns.

Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.

Plainly; without art or subtlety. Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. Milton.

ense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox.

Ti cry out; to complain. [Obs.] They should sing if thet they were bent. Chaucer.

ven, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. "When sundown skirts the moor." Tennyson.

Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. [Prov. Eng.] Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale. [Prov. Eng.]

ner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand. We stalked over the extensive plains with Killbuck and Lena in the slips, in search of deer. Sir S. Baker.

Any sorrowful cry or sound. The tremulous sob of the complaining owl. Wordsworth.

A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.

lved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble. "More soluble is this knot." Tennyson.

Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.

To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem. True piety would effectually solve such scruples. South. God shall solve the dark decrees of fate. Tickell.

grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. Ex. ii. 10. Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. Shak.

Pleasing; delightful; sweet. [R.] The soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains. Milton. With jellies soother than the creamy curd. Keats.