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To personify. [R.] Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.

The pilchard.

To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

asure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.

A folding or fold; a plait. Richardson.

The poachard. [Prov. Eng.] Poker picture, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron. Fairholt.

A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o. [Colloq.] Richardson.

sback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.

ything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance. Richardson.

hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. "King Richard thus removed." Shak.

To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled. Echard.

ion; hence, to care for; to heed. Thou respectest not spilling Edward's blood. Shak. In orchards and gardens, we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground for fruits, trees, and herbs. Bacon.

A female rival. [Obs.] Richardson.

The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.

uring a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.

species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pichardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.

color so laid on. Also used figuratively. Shining above the brown scumbling of leafless orchards. L. Wallace.

tion, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. Shak. They had seated themselves in New Guiana. Sir W. Raleigh.

To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.

A plant; chard. [Obs.] Dryden.