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Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice. "My plaintful tongue." Sir P. Sidney.

See Plaintive. [Obs.] Prior.

Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden.

Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.

Purslain. [Obs.]

applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

A long pointed shoe. See Cracowes.

Same as Purslane.

A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.

Explaining itself; capable of being understood without explanation.

To remove from a chaplaincy.

A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.

Not deplored or bewailed; unlamented. [Obs.] Spenser.

villein.] If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor.

Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch.

The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak.

xtremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

To resolve or explain. [Obs.] "We shall not absolve the doubt." Sir T. Browne.

ason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. P…

f the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.