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s to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central névé, or region of accumulation.

into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey.

what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency, Let me have judgment. Shak.

Plain; undyed; -- applied to Indian silk. -- n.

s two- horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of the Western plains, the commonest plant of the genus, has been used in dyeing.

th reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything. Bartlett.

Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.

A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. Wharton.

To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Pope.

herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

To produce a creaking sound with. Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. Shak.

Embroidery in crewels, commonly done upon some plain material, such as linen.

The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint. The criminations and recriminations of the adverse parties. Macaulay.

To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil.

A low singing; a plain, artless melody.

A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit. Bouvier.

conceit. He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man. De Quincey.

Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain. Dr. Sheridan. The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists. Strauss.