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PLUMAICH
nate petition, begging earnestly and hum-
bly.
Pleadrag, ple'-ag, n.f. a paddle, dibble.
Pleasg, plèsg, n.f. noise. Irish.
Pleat, plètt, v. patch, mend.
Pleat, plett, i>. plait, braid, fold; n.f. a
plait, braid, tress, fold.
Pleata, plett' -a, n. in. a patch, a piece.
Pleath, pie, V. beg a thing to be paid for.
Pleathainn, ple'-enn, n.f. the aot of beg-
ging a thing you are to pay for; pt. beg-
ging humbly a Ihing you must pay for,
earnestly begging.
Pleideir, plàjj^'-èr, v. plead, or beg im.
portunately, beg humbly and incessantly,
{French plaider.)
Pleisg, plashg, i^. revile or abuse with all
your might.
Pleisgeadh, plashg'-X, pt. reviling ; n. m.
a scold in a calm, sarcastic manner.
Pleod, plyod, V. make milk-warm, warm
slightly.
Pleodag, ply6d'-ag, n. /. soft, simple fe-
male.
Pleoisg, plyoshg, n. m. a booby. Irish,
Pliadh, plea, n.f. splay-foot, and bandy-
leg; V. Bwagger.
Pliadhach, plèà'-ach, «./. splay-footed fe-
male ; ar/j. splay-footed and bandy-legged
PliADHAiii, plèà'-àcr, n. 7«. splay-footed,
and bandy-legged man.
Pliodair, plèdd"-cr, v. cajole, seduce by
flattery, cradle into ac()uiescence, Arg.
Pliodaire, plèdd'-ur-à, n. m. eajoler.
PtiODAiRT, pledd'-arjt, n. f. cajoling, ca-
ressing ; pt. cajoling, caressing a person,
as if a child, in a soothing fawning man-
ner.
Pliut, plèùt, n. /. a splay-foot on one side
of the foot; pliutach, having such a foot ;
n.f. a female having such feet.
Pliutacre, pleùt'-èr-à, n. m. half-splay-
footed fellow.
Ploc, ploehg, n. m. any round mass ; junk
of a stick ; potato-masher, large clod, a
very large head ; v. n. ram against, mash
as potatoes, greens, &c. ; a' plocadh a'
bhuntata, mashing the potatoes.
Plocach, plochg'-ach, adj. having a large
head, or lumps; gaXax-plocach, quinsy,
the mximps.
Plocach, plochg'-ach, n. m. boy. H. Soc.
Plocanta, plochg'.ant-a, adj. stout, sturdy
Plod, plodd, n, m. a fleet of shipping;
carnage ; damage ; plod mòr loingeas, a
large fleet of vessels; siad a rinn am plod,
what carnage or damage they have made !
V. float, cause to float; air phlod, afloat:
tha i air phlod, she is afloat ; ma 'n do
pMod i, before she floated ; half scald as a
pig, iu order to loosen the pile; a' plod-
adh na nauice, scalding the pig.
Plodach, plodd'-ach, a. luke-warm, or
milk-warm.
Plodachd, plod'-achg,?!./. milk-warmness.
Plodh, pllo, »(. c. any thing put temporary
together ; a sick person that dies, on get-
ting the slightest cold or injury; a man
or any thing, hardly hanging together.
Plodhaisg, pl6'-tshg, n. c. \ bumpkin,
Plodhaman, plo' a-man, n.m,i a booby,
a hum-drum.
Plodraich, pi odd"-rcch, n..f. carnage, ha-
voc, state of lying here and there uncared
for.
Ploide, plòjj'-à, n.f. a tartan blanket.
Ploideag, plòj'-ag, n.f. a shawl ; good-
natured female.
Plosg, plosg, V. palpitate, throb, pant, sob;
a' ehridhe a' plosgail, his heart palpitating
or panting, throbbing, S^c. ; n. m. a throb,
palpitation, pant ; gun phlo.ig air dèile,
tcithout a throb or gasp on the stretching
board.
Plosgail, plosg'-al, pt. throbbing, palpi-
tating.
Plosgartaicii, plosg'-art-ech, n.f. throb-
bing, palpitating, panting, gasping.
PtuB, pliibb, V. plump, plunge, make noise
as in water; blubber, or speak indis-
tinctly ; n. m. a clumsy lubberly person ;
noise made by any thing falling into wa-
ter, plump, plunge, soft lump.
Plubacu, pliib'-ach, adj. soft and clumsy ;
n.f. a soft lubberly female.
Plubaire, plub'-ùr-à, n. m. lubber, blub-
berer.
PLUBAiRT,plùb'arjt,n./. plunging, plump-
ing; pi. plunging, blubbering, plump-
ing.
Plubaktaich, plùb'-art-èch, n.f. plunging
always ; floundering, blubbering.
PLtmRAicH, plùb'-rèch, n.f. gurgling.
Pluc, plijchg, n. m. lump, bump, jumble
of a sea; v. lump, thump, jumble.
Plucach, plùchg'-ach, adj. lumpish, jum-
bling.
Pluc AX, plùchg'-an, n. m. little jumble of
a sea ; plucanach, with a little jumbling
of a sea.
Plucii, plQch, V. squeeze slowly, compress
slowly and gradually, but tightly.
Pluchadh, plùch-A, pt. squeezing slowly
and lastly tightly ; n. m. a squeeze.
Pluic, plùèehg. n.f. a blub-cheek.
Pluiceach, plCiecHg'-ach, adj. blub-cheek-
ed; n.f. the toothache. li. S. .V.
Pluidse, plùjj'-shà, n. m. big lumpish
fellow or beast.
Pluidseach, plujj'-shyach, n. /. lumpish
female.
Plum, plum, n. m. dead-calm ; hum-drum.
Plumaich, plùm'-èch, v. coagulate without
yeast, as milk ; stagnate.