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A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. Shak.

Secure against harm by plots. Shak.

Abounding with plots.

Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines.

A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.

One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden.

A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

Simple incision. Dunglison.

To divide into plots or parts; to apportion. Milton.

Apportionment.

A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy. I know their complot is to have my life. Shak.

A plotting together. [R.]

One joined in a plot. Dryden.

To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quinsey.

A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. "Here on this grassplot." Shak.

One who, by his officious

A spot; a stain; a daub. R. Browning.

Covered or marked with splotches.

A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.