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To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts. [Slang, Eng.]

-- in distinction from a skirmish. -- To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. [Slang]

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 plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. [Slang] It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey. Dickens.

state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. Motley.

Redundancy 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.

A high, tapering silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]

A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it. Plum bird, Plum budder (Zoöl.), the European bullfinch. -- Plum gouger (Zoöl.), a weevil, or curculio (Coccotorus scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes in the pulp, for the recep…

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]

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A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

ossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of language; as, a point-blank assertion. Point-blank range, the extent of the apparent right line of a ball discharged. -- Point-blank shot, the shot of a gun pointed directly toward the object to be hit.

The plant Myoporum deserti, often distinguished as Ellangowan poison bush or dogwood poison bush.

A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

The language of the Poles.

The Polish language.

Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a polyglot lexicon, Bible.

Speaking many languages; polyglot. [R.] "The polyglottous tribes of America." Max Müller.

The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination. Latham.