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imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.
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Alt. of Plicated
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Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart.
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To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.
v.
A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait.
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Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.
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The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod.
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A fold; a doubling; a plication.
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The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition.
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An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.
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Favorable to pliancy.
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Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
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Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.
n.
One who, or that which, plights.
imp. & p. p.
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That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
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Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.
n.
The Pliocene period or deposits.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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