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To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. Place it for her chief virtue. Shak. To place (a person), to identify him. [Colloq. U.S.]

. -- 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. -- Plain dealing. See under Dealing. -- Plain molding (Join.), molding of which the surfaces are plain figures.…

A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even. Hansard. Planer centers. See under Center.

To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. [Colloq. U.S.]

Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.] But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R.

map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate. This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. Carew.

ronté. To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. -- To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. -- to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin. -- to pluck up. (a) To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to eradicate; to exterminate; to d…

One who, or that which, plucks. Thou setter up and plucker down of kings. Shak.

In a plumb direction; perpendicularly. "Plumb down he falls." Milton.

A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather. Wings . . . of many a colored plume. Milton.

A downright, unqualified lie. [Colloq. or Low]

A down feather.

Downy; bearing down.

A down feather.

To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.

A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross. (b) pl.

To weigh (down); to oppress. [Obs.] Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow. Shak.

l, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. -- Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. -- Pool snipe (Zoöl.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pool table, a billiard table with pockets.…

y king . . . Popp'd in between the election and my hopes. Shak. A trick of popping up and down every moment. Swift.

To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble. Cotton.