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Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word. -- Pit"y*ing*ly, adv.

in from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist. Dryden.

Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament. Chaucer."The Psalmist's mournful plaint." Wordsworth.

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

Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.

A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition. God's plans like lines pure and white unfold. M. R. Smith.

A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow.

To use in a droll manner; to give a droll expression or application to; as, to play upon words.

edundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.

The system of equations required for the complete expression of the relations which exist between a set of quantities. Brande & C.

The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.

To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.

Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose. Poetic license. See License, n., 4.

interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !

Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. Pointed arch (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown. -- Pointed style (Arch.), a name given to that style of architecture in which…

the north pole of the heavens. -- Polar equation of a line or surface, an equation which expresses the relation between the polar coördinates of every point of the line or surface. -- Polar forces (Physics), forces that are developed and act in pairs, with opposite tendencies or properties in the two elements, as mag…

An expression composed of two or more terms, connected by the signs plus or minus; as, a2 - 2ab + b2.

Plurality of sounds and articulations expressed by the same vocal sign.