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beggar_plets, beggar-plaitit, beggar-pleatit, plait, plaitin, plaitit, plaits, platt, platted, plattin, plattit, platts, pleat, pleatin, pleatit, pleats, pleit, pleitin, pleitit, pleits, plet, pletin, pletit, plets, plett, plettin, plettit, pletts, pleyt, pleytin, pleytit, pleyts,
pleat [plit, plet, plɛt]
n. A pleat, fold, crease. A pigtail.
pl. pleats
v. To pleat, fold or pleat, to cross or twist.
pt. pp. pleatit
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
beggar-pleatit: U. Crumpled or creased (clothes).
pleatin: Pleating, folding, creasing.
plee, pleengie, plingie,
plee [I. pliː]
n. The thin piping cry of a bird, usually a seagull. The (young) seagull itself. Also MN. pleeng dim. pleengie
v. To cry with a high pitched wailing sound like a young gull.
pleen, pleeng, pleenge, plein, plene, plenye,
pleen [plin]
n. A complaint or objection.
v. To make a formal complaint, lament, complain, mourn, whine.
pleep, pleepsin, pleepsit, pleip, plip,
pleep [plip]
n. A shrill piping cry. S. MN. The oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus, NEC. MN. I. redshank Tringa totanus, NEC. MN. I.Ork. common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos or snipe Capella galinago
v. To utter a shrill high pitched cry. I.Ork. To moan.
 
pleepsit
adj. Shrill, wailing.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
watterie pleep: I.Ork. The redshank Tringa totanus.
plaesant, plaesur, plaesure, plaisir, plaisir, pleasance, pleasants, pleasaunce, pleasuir, pleesant, pleesher, pleesint, pleesur, pleesure, pleezant, pleisance, pleisant, pleishur, pleisur, pleisure, plesaunce, plisant, plisure, plizzant, unpleisant,
pleisur [ˈpliːzər, ˈpleːz-, ˈpliːʒ-]
n. Pleasure.
v. To pleasure.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
pleisance [ˈpliːzəns]: Joy, pleasure, happiness, satisfaction. A pleasure ground.
pleisant [ˈpliːzənt, MN. ˈplɪzənt]: Pleasant.
pleisantness: Pleasantness.
unpleisant: Unpleasant.
displenish, displenishin, displinis, plaeneesh, plaeneesheen, plenish, plenishen, plenishin, plenisht, plinisan, plinish, replenish, weel-plenished, weel-plenisht, weil-plenisht,
plenish [ˈplɛnɪʃ]
v. To furnish, equip. To replenish.
pt. pp. plenisht
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
displenish: To divest of furnishings or contents.
displenishin sale: An auction of farm stock etc.
plenishin [ˈplɛnɪʃɪn]: Furniture etc. pl. plenishins Furnishings etc.
replenish [rəˈ-]: To repair, renovate.
weel plenisht: Well provided for.
aplenty, aplinty, planty, plentie, plenty, plintie, plinty,
plenty [ˈplɛnte]
n. Plenty, a great number of, many, a large proportion of.
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
aplenty: In abundance.
plentifu: Plentiful.
plert, plirt, plurt,
plert [plɛrt]
n. A heavy fall, into soft earth or mud etc., a splash.
v. To walk in a heavy, flat-footed way, to plod through mud or water.
peuch, pleoch, pleu, pleuan, pleuch, pleuchgate, pleuchie, pleuchin, pleuchman, pleuch-sock, pleuch-stilt, pleucht, pleuchy, pleugh, pleughin$, pleughman, pleuin, pleuman, plew, plewchie, plewed, plewin, ploo, ploo$d, ploo$in, ploo$mann, plooch, ploochie, ploochy, plood, plooed, ploo-feather, plooin, plooin, plooman, ploomin, ploos, ploo-sock, ploo-stilts, plou, plou$in, plou$man, ploud, ploued, plou-feather, plougate, ploughgate, plouin, plouman, plou-sock, plou-stilts, plouwen, plowin, plu, pluch, pluchie, pluchy, pluin, plyue, plyuein, pue, puein, pyoo, pyooin,
pleuch [plux, S. pljux, SW. plʌx, NEC. pjʌx, I. pljɔx]
also contracted form plou [ˈplu, ˈplju, S. pl(j)ʌu]
n. A plough. NEC. A peerson assicated with farm work.
dim. pleuchie A ploughman. A rusic yokel.
v. To plough.
pt. pp. pleucht, ploued
 
Compounds and phrases etc.
 
ebb plou: MN. To shallow plough.
Peter's plou: The plough or big dipper constellation.
pleuchgate, plougate: A land measurement, the area that eight oxen are able to plough in one year.
pleuchin, plouin: Ploughing.
pleuchman. A ploughman.
pleuch-sock: A ploughshare.
pleuch-stilt: A plough-handle.
plou-feather: A projecting wing on the sock of a plough which cuts the furrow.
plou-stilts: The handles of a plough.
plouman. A ploughman.
pleura,
pleura [ˈpl(j)uːrə]
n. Pleuro-pneumonia.

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