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

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

Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty. Chaucer. I see plainly where his sore lies. Sir W. Scott. Gold sore. (Med.) See under Gold, n.

etly; as, to steal a look. Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it. Bacon. To steal a march, to march in a covert way; to gain an advantage unobserved; -- formerly followed by of, but now by on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march upon o…

ppear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.

er; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject. Hooker. The will is plainly that by which the mind chooses anything. J. Edwards.