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Pleasg, -a, -an,«. m
pitus. Llh. et OR.
se, crack : fragor, stre-
Pleasgach, -aiche, adj. (Pleasg, s.). 1. Cracking,
noisy, making a noise: fragorem, vel strepitum
edens. C. S. 2. Ready to crack, burst, or break :
ad crependum, vel disrumpendum promptus. C. S.
Pleasgadh, -aidh, s. m. et pres. part. v. Pleasg.
Cracking, act of cracking, bursting, or breaking :
crependi, vel disruropendi actus. C. S.
Pleasganach, -aiche, adj. (Pleasg, s.) 1. That
cracketh, or breaketh : crepens, disrumpens. Stew.
Gloss. 2. That striketh : feriens. Stew. Gloss.
Pleid, -e, s.f. Provin. Vide Bleid.
Pleideil, -e, adj. Provin. Vide Bleideil.
Pleòisg, -e, -ean, s. m. et/. A simpleton, booby :
stuitus. as.
Pleòisgeach, -eiche, adj. (Pieòisg), Booby-like,
silly, foolish : ineptus, insulsus. C. S.
Pleòisgeag, -aig, -an, s.f. (Pleòisg), A foolish,
silly, or stupid woman : inepta mulier. C. S.
Pleòisgealachd, s.f. hid. (Pleòisgeil), Stupidity,
silliness : ineptia. C. S.
Pleòisgeil, -e, adj. (Pleòisg), Doltish, sottish, stu-
pid : hebes, ineptus. C. S.
Pleòdar, -air, s. m. Provin. Vide Feòdar.
Pliad, -a, -an, s. m. A plot of ground : agellus.
Pliadan, -ain, -an, s. m. dim. of Pliad. A little
plot of ground : agellus. Provin.
Pliadanach, -aiche, adj. (Pliadan), Abounding in
little plots of ground : agellis frequens. Provin.
Pliadh, -a, -an, s.f. A splay foot : pes distortus.
as.
Pliadhach, -aiche, adj. (Pliadh), Splay-footed:
pedibus distortus. C S.
Pliadhaiche, s.f. ind. (Pliadhach), Splay-footed-
ness : pedis distortio. C. S.
Pliaram, -aim, «. m. Babbling : garrulitas. Provin.
Pliaramach, -aiche, adj. (Pliaram), Babbling:
garriens. Provin.
Pliotair, -e, -an, s. m. A fawner, a meanly cring-
ing fellow : adulator, abjectè adulans quis. C. S.
PLioTAiREACHD.s./.inrf. (Pliotair), Cringing, mean
flattery : abjecta adulatio. C S.
Pliut, -a, -an, s. m. A clumsy foot, or paw : inha-
bilis pes, vel ungula. C. S.
Pliutach, -aiche, adj. (Pliut), Clumsy footed, or
broad pawed : pedibus inhabilis, vel ungulis latis
instructus. C. S.
Pliutach, -aich, s. m. (Pliut), A seal, or sea calf:
phoca. Provin.
Pliutair, -e, -ean, s. m. (Pliut, et Fear). 1. A
clumsy footed person: pedibus inhabilis quis.
Macinty. 62.
Pliutaireacud, s.f. ind. (Pliutair). 1. A clumsi-
ness of feet : pedum distortio, vel inhabilitas. C.
S. 2. Clumsy walking : inhabiliter incedendi
actus, modus, vel consuetudo. C. S.
Ploc, Pluic, -can, s. m. 1. Any round mass :
massa rotunda quaevis. C. S. A piece of earth,
a large turf, or piece of turf, a large clod : gleba,
gleba fossilis, cespes. C. S. 2. A club, or blud-
t PLO
geon, with a round and large head : fustis, stipes.
C. S. 3. The round head of a bludgeon, or club :
fustis caput, stipes. 4. The head of a pin : aciculse
umbo, vel caput. C. S. 5. A block of wood, the
short stump of a tree : truncus, stipes. C. .S". 6.
A bung, a stopper : obturamentum. C. S. 7. A
block, or pully : trochlea. K. Macken. 134. 8. A
hump: gibbus. C. S. 9. Tlie cheek: gena. MSS.
Vide Pluic. " Ploc-chùl teallaich." Macf V. A
block of wood placed at the back of a fire : trun-
cus, vel massa lignea ad focum consitus. " Ploc
a' mhàis." C. S. The buttock : clunis. " Ploc-
lomaidh." N. H. A block of wood hollowed out,
and furnished with a ponderous wooden pestle, hav-
ing a handle inserted towards its upper extremity at
right angles, which is used for hulling barley, or
pounding bark for tanning : arboris truncus ingens
excavatus, qui pistillo magni ponderis, et manubrio
recto angulò in pistillum inserto instructus, ad
hordeum decorticandum, et corticem contunden-
dum, apud Gaelos adhibetur. Wei. Ploc. Oio.
Ploc, -aidh, phl, v. a. (Ploc, s.). 1. Strike with a
club, block, or pestle : fusti, vel pistillo, tunde. C.S.
2. Strike on the head : caput feri. C. S. 3. Bruise,
pound : contere, contunde, comnjinue. C S.
Plocach, -aiche, adj. (Ploc). 1. Abounding in
pieces of earth, turf, or clods : glebis, vel cespi-
tibus frequens. C. S. 2. Abounding in blocks of
wood, like a block : truncis arboris frequens, vel
trunco arboris similis. C. S. 3. Having a large
end, or head, as a club, or bludgeon, block-head-
ed : extremitatem aliquid ingentem habens. C. S.
4. Having clubs, or bludgeons : fustibus vel stipi-
tibus instructus. C. S. 5. Having blocks, or pul-
lies : trochleis instructus. C. S. 6. Humped ;
gibbosus. C. S. 1. Sturdy, stout : robustus, fir-
mus. C. S. 8. Having large, or swoln cheeks :
buccas tumentes, vel turgidas gerens. C. S. " An
galar plocach." C. S. The quinsy : angina, cyn-
anche, morbus.
Plocach, -aich, *. »i. (Ploc), A boy, or lad : puer,
adolescens. Provin.
Plocadh, -aidh, s. m. et pres. part. v. Ploc. 1.
Striking, act of striking with a block, or pestle :
fusti, vel pistillo tundendi actus. C. S. 2. A strik-
ing on the head : caput feriendi actus. C. S. 3.
Bruising, act of bruising, or pounding : conteren-
di, contundendi actus. C. S.
Plocag, -aig, -an, s.f. A corpulent little woman :
fcemina coqjulenta. Provin.
Plocan, -ain, -an, «. m. dim. of Ploc, q. vide. 1.
A small clod : glebula. C. S. 2. A wooden ham-
mer : tudicula lignea. C. S. 3. A beetle, mallet :
malleus. C. S.
Plocanach, -aiche, adj. (Plocan), 1. Abounding
in small clods : glebulis frequens. C. S. 2. Fur-
nished with mallets, or hammers : tudiculis ligneis,
vel malleis instructus. C. S. 3. Furnished with
small blocks, or puUies : trochleis exiguis frequens.
C.S.
Plocanta, -ainte, adj. (Plocan). 1. C.S. Id.
q. Plocanach. 2. Stout, sturdy : robustus, firm-