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efinite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. Here is the place appointed. Shak. What place can be for us Within heaven's bound Milton. The word place has sometimes a more confused sense, and stands for that space which any body takes up; and so the universe is a place. Locke.…

To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.

Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.

A prescription intended to humor or satisfy. To sing placebo, to agree with one in his opinion; to be complaisant to. Chaucer.

In the appointed place. [Obs.]

Having no place or office.

One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.

The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.

A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.

Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.

The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.

Having or producing a placenta.

Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.

Pleasing; amiable. [Obs.] "A placentious person." Fuller.

One who places or sets. Spenser.

e promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. Shipley. The king . . . annulled the royal placet. J. P. Peters.

Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.

Mammals which have no placenta.