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The plant body ranges from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much- branched mycelium. Reproduction is mainly sexual, by the formation of conidia or sporangia; but the group shows every form of transition from this method through simple conjugation to perfect sexual reproduction by egg and s…

Fineness; spruceness; smartness. [Obs.] Too much pickedness is not manly. B. Jonson.

e amount of work done, rather than on the time employed. The reaping was piecework, at so much per acre. R. Jefferies.

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.

Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune. Plain battle, open battle; pitched battle. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Plain chant (Mus.) Same as Plain song, below. -- Plain chart (Naut.), a chart laid down on Mercator's projection. -- Plain dealer. (a) One who practices plain dealing. (b) A simpleton. [Obs.] Shak. -- Pla…

s a serrated bill with which it cuts off the young shoots and buds of plants, often doing much injury. -- Plant louse (Zoöl.), any small hemipterous insect which infests plants, especially those of the families Aphidæ and Psyllidæ; an aphid.

ween grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.

A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave.

Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.

nsive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebræ united and much modified; the Eventognathi.

An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.

Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue. [Obs.] "A man of much plot." Denham.

ng, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number (Gram.), the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.

As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.

er (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also craig flounder, and pole fluke. -- Pole lathe, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fast…

lie at the foundation of any human institution. Nor is possible that any form of polity, much less polity ecclesiastical, should be good, unless God himself be author of it. Hooker.

Much writing; writing of many books. [Obs.] Fuller.