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A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule. Gray.

Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.

the purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam. Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.

To move as with a fan. The air . . . fanned with unnumbered plumes. Milton.

Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

To enrich; to exalt; to benefit. They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. Bacon. Dryden.

A pheasantlike bird of rich plumage and graceful form and movement, fabled to appear in the land on the accession of a sage to the throne, or when right principles are about to prevail. It is often represented on porcelains and other works of art.

The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.

Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. The sole of his foot is fleshy. Ray.

effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air. They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the wind. Pope. There seems a floating whisper on the hills. Byron.

or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.

ope. -- French tub, a dyer's mixture of protochloride of tin and logwood; -- called also plum tub. Ure. -- French window. See under Window.

Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.

A plump young person or child. [Obs.] Smart.

Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.

The black currant; also, the wild plum. [Prov. Eng.]