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The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.

One who pillages. Pope.

The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union jack, in Great Britain the British union jack with a white border.

A stripe of color.

or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave. Plagal cadence, a cadence in which the final chord on the tonic is preceded by the chord on the subdominant.

Having plagæ, or irregular enlongated color spots.

A region; country. [Obs.] "The plages of the north." Chaucer.

The act or practice of plagiarizing.

One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.

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

To commit plagiarism.

Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.

Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar.

A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.

Same as Plagiostomous.

One of the Plagiostomi.

An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; -- called also Plagiostomata.

Of or pertaining to the Plagiostomi.