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Plaice [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. PLAICE

3. PLAIN, adjective [Latin planus; splendor. Gr. to wander.]

4. Smooth; even; level; flat; without elevations and depressions; not rough; as plain ground or land; a plain surface. In this sense, in philosophical writings, it is written plane.

5. Open; clear.

6. Our troops beat an army in plain fight and open field.

7. Void of ornament; simple; as a plain dress.

8. Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.

9. Artless; simple; unlearned; without disguise, cunning or affectation; without refinement; as men of the plainer sort.

10. Genesis 25:1 .

11. Plain but pious christians--

12. Artless; simple; unaffected; unembellished; as a plain tale or narration.

13. Honestly undisguised; open; frank; sincere; unreserved. I will tell you the plain truth.

14. Give me leave to be plain with you.

15. Mere; bare; as a plain knave or fool.

16. Evident to the understanding; clear; manifest; not obscure; as plain words or language; a plain difference; a plain argument.

17. It is plain in the history, that Esau was never subject to Jacob.

18. Not much varied by modulations; as a plain song or tune.

19. Not high seasoned; not rich; not luxuriously dressed; as a plain diet.

20. Not ornamented with figures; as plain muslin.

21. Not dyed.

22. Not difficult; not embarrassing; as a plain case in law.

23. Easily seen or discovered; not obscure or difficult to be found; as a plain road or path. Our coarse is very plain. Psalms 27:1 .

24. A plain or plane figure, in geometry, is a uniform surface, from every point of whose perimeter right lines may be drawn to every other point in the same.

25. A plain figure, in geometry, is a surface in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface.

26. A plain angle, is one contained under two lines or surfaces, in contradistinction to a solid angle.

Plaice [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Not obscurely; in a manner to be easily understood.

2. Distinctly; articulately; as, to speak plain. Mark 7:1 .

3. With simplicity; artlessly; bluntly.

Plaice [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Level land; usually, an open field with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as all the plain of Jordan. Genesis 13:10 .

2. Field of battle.

Plaice [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To lament or wail. [Not used.] [ See Complain .]

Plaice [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To level; to make plain or even on the surface.

Plaice [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.

2. A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species.

Plaice Encyclopedia Britannica

PLAICE(Pleuronectes platessa), a species of Flat-fish, common on the coasts of northern Europe from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay. It is readily recognized by the yellow or orange-coloured spots which are placed in a row along the dorsal and anal fins, and scattered over the body. The eyes are on the right side, and the teeth in the jaws compressed and truncate. The scales are minute and smooth. In the dorsal fin from sixty-seven to seventyseven rays may be counted, in the anal from fifty to fiftyseven. Plaice, like other flat-fishes, prefer a sandy flat bottom to a rocky ground, and occur in suitable localities in great abundance; and, as they belong to the better class of fishes for the table, immense quantities are brought to the market. They spawn early in spring, and are in finest condition in the month of May. Individuals of seven or eight pounds weight are considered fish of large size, but specimens of double that weight have been caught. Plaice grow quickly and are tenacious of life; and, as they thrive in brackish water, their culture in littoral back-waters would seem to be deserving of every attention.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 19, p. 168
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