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_Pitscottie._
PLAINSTANES, _s. pl._
1. The pavement, S.
2. The exchange, as being paved, S.
_To_ PLAINT, PLENT, _v. n._ To complain of, S.
_Knox._
PLAYOKIS, _s. pl._ Playthings, S. O.
_Wyntown._
PLAITINGS, _s. pl._ Pieces of iron which go below the plough-share.
Fife.
PLANE, _adj._ Full, consisting of its different const.i.tuent branches; applied to parliament.
_Acts Ja. II._
Fr. _plane_, _pleine court_, id.
PLANE-TREE, _s._ The maple, S.
_Lightfoot._
_To_ PLASH, _v. n._
1. To make a noise by das.h.i.+ng water, S.
_Pleesk_, S. B.
_Ramsay._
2. To splash, S.
3. Applied to any thing, which, from being thoroughly drenched, emits the noise occasioned by the agitation of water, S.
Su. G. _plask-a_, aquam c.u.m sonitu movere.
PLASH _of rain_, a heavy fall of rain, S.
Belg. _plasregen_, praeceps imber.
PLASMATOR, _s._ Maker; Gr.
_Complaynt S._
PLASTROUN, _s._ Perhaps, a harp.
_Sir Egeir._
Gr. p???t???, the instrument with which the strings of an harp are struck.
_To_ PLAT, PLET, _v. a._ To plait.
_Wyntown._
PLAT, _adj._
1. Flat, level.
_Douglas._
2. Low, opposed to _heiche_.
_Maitland P._
3. Close, near.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _platt_, Teut. _plat_, pla.n.u.s.
~Plat~, _adv._ Flatly.
_Douglas._
PLAT, PLATT, _s._ A plan.
_Douglas._
Teut. _plat_, exemplar.
