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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt:...flexible; pliant. Pli'ant, yielding; easily bent. Ply, to work on closely. Pli'ers, small pincers. Quadruple, four-fold. Reply', to answer. Sim'ple, plain; artless. Simpleton, a silly person. Simplicity, plainness; single-ness. Sim'plify, to render easy. Suppliant,a petitioner. Supplicate, to implore. Trip'le, three-fold. Treb'le, to multiply by three. Ptor-o, plorat-um, to cry out, to wail. Deplore', to bewail; to mourn Deplo'rable, lamentable; sad Explore', to search into. Implore', to entreat; to beg. Plume, a feather. Plum-a, a feather Plu'mage, feathers. Plumb-nm, lead, a leaden bullet. Plumb, a plummet. I Plum'met, a weight of lead at Plumba'oo, black lead. tached to a string. Plus, pttir-is, more. Non'plus, to bring to a stand. Plu'ral, implying more than one. Plus, increased by; added to. Sur'plus, that which remains over a certain quantity. Pol-us, the pole. Circumpo'lar, round the pole. I Pole, the end of the earth's Polar'rrsr, tendency to the pole. axis. Pom-um, an apple. PomAce',the substance of apples I Pomegranate kind of fruit. or similar fruit ground. Pom'mel, a knob or ball. Pontius, ponder-is, weight. Impon'derable, that cannot be weighed. Poise, to weigh; to balance. Pon'der,to consider. Pon'derous, heavy. Preponderate, to outweigh. Pon-O, poslt-Utn, to put, or place. Com,ose',to put together; to settle. Compos'itor, one who sets types. Com'post,0 manure; any mix-Compo'sure, tranquillity. jure. Decompose', to take apart. DEPO'nEnT,a witness on oath. Depose', to put down; to divest. Depos'it, to lodge; to place. De'pot, a place of deposit. Discompose', to disorder; to vex. Dispo'sal, regulation; control. Dispositi'on, temper of mind. Expose', to lay open. Expos'itor, an explainer. Expo'sure, act of exposing. Expound', to explain; to clear...