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With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.

The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.

One who contemplates. Sir T. Browne.

A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.

A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.

To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat. [Obs.] Hakewill.

A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.

One who electroplates.

The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.

To explain; to unfold. [Obs.] Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.

See Footboard (a).

To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.

See Gorget, 1 and 2.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists.

A neoplatonist.

sophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.

One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.

The shoulder blade, or scapula.

A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process.