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PLEADHAG
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PLUMAICH
TiBte petition, begging earnestly and hum-
bly.
Pi.E4nn*G, ple'-ag, n.f. a paiklle, dibble.
Ple»sg, plèsg, n,f. noise. Jrisft.
Pleat, plett, f. patch, mend.
Pleat, plctt, ?>. plait, braid, fold; n.f. a
plait, braid, ticss, foM.
PiEATA, plètt'-a, n. m. a patch, a piece.
Pleath, pie, V. beg a thing to be paid for.
Pleathainn, ple'-enn, n.f. the act of beg.
ging a thing you are to pay for; pt. beg-
ging humbly a thing you must pay for,
earnestly begging.
PLEinEiH, plajj2'-èr, v. plead, or beg im.
portunately, beg humbly and incessantly,
{French plaider.)
Pleisg, plashg, V. revile or abuse with all
your might.
Pleisceadii, plashg'-l, pi. reviling ; n. m.
a scold in a calm, sarcastic manner.
Pleod, plyòd, V. make milk-warm, warm
slightly.
Pleodao, plyòd'-ag, n. f. soft, simple fe-
male.
Pleoisg, plyoshg, n. «. a booby. Irish.
PuADH, plea, n.f. splay-foot, atid tondy.
leg; V. gwagger.
Pliadhach, plèà'-ach, n./. splay-footed fe-
male ; at/J- splay-footed and bandy-legged
Pliadhaib, plèà'-ncr, n. «. splay-footed,
and bandy-legged man.
Pliodair, plèdd"-èr, v. cajole, seduce by
flattery, cradle into acquiescence, Arg.
PnoDAiRE, pledd'-ur-à, n. m. cajoler.
Pliodairt, pledd'-arjt, n. /. cajoling, ca-
ressing; p<. cajoling, caressing a person,
as if a child, in a soothing fawning man-
Pliut, plèùt, n. /. a splay-foot on one side
of thefoot; pliutach, iiavingsuchafoot;
n. f. a female having such feet.
Pliutaire, pleùt'-èr-à, n. m. half.splay-
footed fellow.
Ploc, plochg, n. m. anyroimd mass; junk
of a stick ; potato-masher, large clod, a
very large head ; v. n. ram against, mash
as potatoes, greens, &o. ; a' plocadh a'
bhuntàta, mashing the potatoes.
Plocach, plochg'-ach, adj. having a large
head, or lumps; galài-plocach, qtunsy,
the mumps.
Plocach, plSchg'-ach, n. m. boy. H. Soc.
Plocanta, plOchg'.ant-a, adj. stout, sturdy
Plod, pludd, ti. m. a fleet of shipping;
carnage ; damage ; plod mòr loingeas, a
large fleet of vessels; siad a riim am plod,
what carnage or damage titey have made I
V. float, cause to float ; air phlod, afloat:
tha i air phlod, she it afloat ; ma 'n do
plUod i, before she floated : half scald as a
pig, in order to loosen the pile; a' plod-
adh na muice, scalding tht pig.
Plodach, plodd'-ach, a. lukc-warm, or
milk-warm.
Plooachd, plod'-achg, n/. milk-warmncss.
PLonii, pUo, fi.c. any thing put temporary
together ; a sick person that dies, on get-
ting the slightest cold or injury; a man
or any tliiiig, hardly hanging together.
Plodmaisg, pUV-eshg, n. c. \bumpkin,
Plodhaman, plo'-a-man, Tu m./ a booby,
a hum-drum.
Plodraich, plodd"-ièdi,n./. carnage, ha-
voc, state of lying here and there uncared
for.
Ploide, plojj'-a, n.f. a tartan blanket.
Ploideag, plòj'-ag, «./. a shawl ; good-
naturcd female.
Plosg, plòsg, V. palpitate, throb, pant, sob;
a" chridhe a' plosgail, his heart palpitating
OT panting, throbbing, IfC. ; n. m. a throb,
palpitation, pant ; gun phlosg air dèile,
without a throb or gasp on the strelcfting
board.
Plosgail, pjosg'.al, pt. throbbing, palpi-
tating.
Plosgartaich, pl6sg'-art-cch, n.f. throb-
bing, palpitating, panting, gasping.
Pll'b, plubb, V. plump, plunge, make noise
as in water; blubber, or speak indis-
tinctly ; fi. m. a clumsy lubberly person ;
noise made by any thing falUng into wa-
ter, plump, plunge, soft lump.
Pldbacu, plùb'-ach, adj. soft and clumsy ;
n.f. a soft lubberly female.
Plubaibe, plub'-ijr-à, n. m. lubber, blub-
berer.
PLUBAiRT,plùb'arjt,n./. plunging, plump-
ing; pi. plunging, blubbering, plump-
ing.
Plubartaich, plùb'-art-cch,n./ plunging
always ; floundering, blubbering.
PLt'BRAicn, plùb'-rèch, n.f. gurgling.
Pluc, pliichg, n. m. lump, bump, jumble
of a sea ; v. lump, thump, jumble.
PlucACH, plùchg'-ach, ad/, lumpish, jum-
bUng.
Plucan, plùchg'-an, n. m. little jumble of
a sea; plucanach, with a little jumbling
Pn'CH, plDch, J', squeeze slowly, compress
slowly and gradually, but tightly.
Pluchadh, plùch-X, pt. squeezing slowly
and lastly tightly ; n. m. a squeeze.
Pluic, plùèchg. n.f. a blub-chcek.
Pluiceacb, plùèchg'-ach, adj. blub-cheek-
ed ; n./. the toothache. U. S. N.
Pllidse, plùjj'-shà, n. ffi. big lumpish
fellow or beast.
Pluidseach, plQjJ'-shyach, ti. /. lumpish
female.
Plum, plum, n. m. dead-calm ; huTn-drum.
Plumaich, plùm'-èch, r. coagulate without
ycajit, as milk ; stagnate.