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en with up; as, to pile up wood. "Hills piled on hills." Dryden. "Life piled on life." Tennyson. The labor of an age in piled stones. Milton.

bling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit. Three silent pinnacles of aged snow. Tennyson. The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate. Cowley.

he peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. Tennyson.

; 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.

atively, to make plain or smooth. [R.] What student came but that you planed her path. Tennyson.

flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. Milton. I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson.

The plane tree. Tennyson.

ht; kindness. [Archaic] Shak. "Full great pleasance." Chaucer. "A realm of pleasance." Tennyson.

afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify. Shak. [Rolled] his hoop to pleasure Edith. Tennyson.

A small plume. When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. Tennyson.

war. "To plunge the boy in pleasing sleep." Dryden. Bound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts.

To make soft or muddy by trampling Tennyson.

so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

won by tenpoints. "A point of precedence." Selden. "Creeping on from point to point." Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. Chaucer.

Covered with pollen. Tennyson.

e by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

ater the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson.

ers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.

le a portion is heard of him! Job xxvi. 14. Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Tennyson.

To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] Tennyson. Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. J. & H. Smith.