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To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.

The plane tree. Tennyson.

The soosoo.

A genus of trees; the plane tree.

A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border.

ich is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.

Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.

A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.

Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.

A small dish.

The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.

One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.

Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.

One of a pair of a paired organs.

A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively. [Obs.] Bacon.

One of the Platyelminthes.

Same as Platyelminthes.

See Platen.

Platinum. Platina mohr, platinum black. -- Platina yellow, a pigment prepared from platinum.

The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.