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Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.

hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

To immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out. Coleridge.

. t. & i. Ducking stool, a stool or chair in which common scolds were formerly tied, and plunged into water, as a punishment. See Cucking stool. The practice of ducking began in the latter part of the 15th century, and prevailed until the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th century. Blackstone.…

To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden. Those who h…

Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.

ief. Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford.

s, to plunge a nation into war. "To plunge the boy in pleasing sleep." Dryden. Bound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts.