place 
Their summons call'd 
Prom every band and squared regiment 
By place or choice the worthiest. 
Milton, P. L., 1. 769. 
She teaches him Ma place by an incomparable discipline. 
The Century, XXX VII 281. 
18. Precedence; priority in rank, dignity, or 
importance. 
Come, do you think I'd walk in any plot 
Where Madam Sempronia should take place of me, 
And Fulvia come in the rear, or on the by? 
B. Jonxan, Catiline, 111. 2. 
You do not know 
What 'tis to be a lady and take place. 
Shirley, Love in a Maze, i 2. 
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Thou (halt provide out of all the people able men, uich 
as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place 
such over them to be rulers of thousands. Ex. xvifi. 21. 
This gentleman was a Mr. Thompson, the son of a placed tlio female. It li 
nlnUter of Melrose. 'pecially modified part of the surface of the chorlon or 
Placentalia 
In _-<>/., anat., and metl. : (a) The organ of at- 
tachment of a vertebrate embryo or fetus to the 
wall of the uterus or womb of the female, it ! 
Mem. of K. H. Barham, In Ingoldiby Legends, L 80. 
4. To find a place, home, situation, etc., for; _ ., 
arrange for the residence, instruction, or em- applied to 'he wall of the 
ployment of. 
I am always glad to get a young person well /././..-/ out. 
Four nieces of Mrs. Jenklnson are raot delightfuUy situ- 
ated through my means. 
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, xxlx. 
ouuide one of the fetal envelops, of a flattened circular 
form, like a plate or saucer, 
one side of which is closely 
5. To put out at interest; invest: as, to place 
21. Position; specifically, in astron., the bear- 
ing of a heavenly body at any instant : as, the 
moon's place (that is, its right ascension and 
declination, or direction otherwise specified). 
22. Ground or occasion ; room. 
There is no place of doubting but that it was the very 
same. Hammond, Fundamentals. 
23. Position, in general. 
By improvement they [of Sclo] have all sorts of fruit 
trees, and the mulberry-tree for their silk has a great 
place among them. 
Pococke, Description of the Eastj II. II. 9. 
Acronychal, aphetical, common, decimal, eccen- 
tric place. See the adjectives. Apparent place of a 
star. See apparent. Body Of a place. See body. 
Heliocentric, hign, holy, Inward place. See the ad- 
jectives. In place, (a) In position or adjustment. (6) 
Into occasion, opportunity, or use. 
And gladly ther-of wolde the! ben a-venged, yef thel 
myght come in place. Merlin (E. E. T. S-X ill. 444. 
(c) In geol., in its original position ; not moved, especially 
by currents of water or by other erosive agencies, from its 
natural bed, or the place which it occupied when the de- 
posit of which it constitutes a part was formed, (dt) In 
presence; present 
Thy love is present there with thee in place. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. x. 16. 
Jumping-off place. Seejumpi. Lawof place, the law 
in force within a particular jurisdiction : commonly used 
with reference to the place where a contract Is made or 
to be performed ; the lex loci. Mean place. SeemeanS. 
Most holy place. See holy of holies, under AoJi/. Out 
Of place, (a) Not properly placed or adjusted in relation 
to other things ; displaced. Hence (b) Ill-assorted; ill. 
timed; inappropriate; disturbing: as, conduct or remarki 
friend. 
Let them shew where the God of our Fathers Imposed 
any of those heavy burdens which the Scribes and Phari- 
seen place so much of their Religion in. 
Stillingfieet, Sermons, II. i. 
The Egyptians place great faith in dreams. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 339. 
=Sjm, 1. Set, Lay, etc. (see put), station, establish, de- 
T n 
I will pease; 1st pers. 
sln g- fut- md. of plaeere, please: see please.] 
womb, and from the other 
side of which proceeds the 
umbilical cord or navel- 
string. It is highly vas- 
cular, and In intimate vital 
connection with a similarly 
vascular area of the uter- 
ine walls, serving for the 
of the const it 
blood between 
the fetus, 
ig during In- 
tra-uterlne life as the or- 
gan of circulation, respi- 
ration, and nutrition of me 
fetus. The human pla- 
centa is about as large as a soup-plate, and In connec- 
tion with the navel-string and membranes Is commonly 
known as the uterine cake, afterbirth, or tecundinct. The 
presence of a true placenta is necessarily restricted to vi- 
viparous vertebrates, and does not occur In all of these 
(the two lower subclasses of mammals, the marsupials and 
monotremes, being Implacental). Several forms of placan- 
ta have been distinguished among placenta! mammals, and 
made a basis of classification. See also cuts under embryo 
Human Placenta (unattached sur- 
face), with umbilical cord. 
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1. In the Bom. Cath. Ch., the vespers of the ' "**?" Hence (b) Some analogous part or 
office for the dead. It was so called from the Initial 
words of the opening antiphon, Placebo Domino in regi- 
one mcorum (1 shall be acceptable unto the Lord In the 
land of the living), taken from Psalm cxlv. 9 of the Vul- 
gate (cxvl. 9 of the authorized version). 
2. A medicine adapted rather to pacify than to 
benefit a patient. 
Physicians appeal to the Imagination In desperate cases 
with bread pills and placeboi. 
Amer. Jour. Peychol., I. 145. 
To Sing placebo*, toart with siTvilcciunpliiisance; agree 
with one in his opinions. 
Beth ware, therfore, with lordes how ye pleye, 
Syngeth Placebo - and I shal if I kan. 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 367. 
Of which comedle . . . when some (to tittg placebo) ad- 
uised that it should be forbidden, because it was some- 
what too plaine, ... yet he would haue It allowed. 
Sir J. Harrington, Pref. to Ariosto's Orlando Furloso. 
place-brick (plas'brik), n. In brickmaking, an 
inferior kind of brick, which, having been out- 
ermost or furthest from the fire in the clamp or 
out of place Place kick : See Bet Place of election e m e CIara P or 
In turg. See election.- Place of' worship a church,' kiln > nas not received sufficient heat to burn 
chapel, or meeting-house. Places of arms, in fort. See it thoroughly. Place-bricks are consequently soft, and 
Strong place, a fortress or a fortified town ; a uneven in texture. They are also termed peckingi, and 
stronghold. sometimes tandel or satnel bricks. 
At a few miles' distance was the ttrong place of Ripa place-broker (plas'bro'ker), H. One who dis- 
poses of official place for his own profit ; one 
who traffics in public offices, whether for his 
personal profit or for that of others. 
placefult (plas'ful), a. [< place + -//.] Fill- 
ing a place. 
And in their precinct 
Candida. Prescott, Ferd.'and Isa,, ii/2. 
To give place, to make room or way ; yield. 
And when a lady 's in the case, 
You know all other things give place. 
Gay, Hare and many Friends. 
They heard Jonah and gave place to his preaching. 
Latimer, Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1560. 
Neither give place to the devil. Eph. iv. 27. 
To have place, (a) To have room, seat, or footing: as, place-hunter (plas'hun^ter), n. 
such desires can have no place in a good heart. (6)Tohave persistently for public office, 
actual existence. To make place, to make room ; give 
way. 
Make place ! bear back there ! 
B. Jonfon, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
To take place, (a) To come to pass; happen; occur, placeless (plas'les), a. 
(b) To take precedence or priority. See def. IS. (ct) To ing no place or office, 
take effect ; avail. 
(Proper and placefult) stood the troughs and pailes 
In which he milk d. Chapman, Odyssey, IT. 
One who seeks 
The multiplication of salaried functionaries creates a 
population of place-hunters. 
Sir E. Creasy, Eng. Const, p. 377, note. 
Hav- 
But none of these excuses would take place. Spenser. 
The powder in the touch-hole being wet, and the ship 
having fresh way with wind and tide, the shot took place 
in the shrouds and killed a passenger. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 271. 
[< place + -less.] 
Canning. 
placeman (plas'man), n. ; pi. placemen (-men). 
One who holds or occupies a place ; specifically, 
one who has an office under government. 
A cabinet which contains not placemen alone, but inde- 
pendent and popular noblemen and gentlemen. 
Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 
las'ment), n. [< place + -meat.] 
acing, or setting. [Rare.] 
or set in a particular place or position. 
Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake, 
That so her torture may be shortened. 
Shot., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4. 67. 
Hither cameCKsar iorneying night and daye wyth as Placemonger (plas mung'ger), H. One who 
muche speede as might be, and. taking the towne traced traffic's in public employments and patronage. 
place-name (plas'nam), H. The name of a place 
or locality; such a name as is given to places; 
a local name : in contradistinction to personal 
organ in other animals, having a similar func- 
tion. (1) In ascidians, the organ by which a fetal sex- 
less ascldiozooid is attached for a time to the wall of the 
atrial cavity of the parent. See cut under Salpa. (2) In In- 
fusorians, a name given by Stein to the single mass result- 
Ing from the coalescence of the segments of the nuclei of 
different Individuals after the process of conjugation. 
2. In echinoderms, a flat discoidal sea-urchin, 
as a sand-dollar or cake-urchin: used in a ge- 
neric, sense by Klein, 1734. 3. [cap.] A genus 
of bivalve mollusks, now called Plaeuna. 4. 
In hot., that part of the ovary of flowering plants 
which bears the ovules. It Is usually the more or 
less enlarged or modified margins of the carpellary leaves, 
and is of a soft cellular texture. When the ovary is com- 
posed of a single leaf, 
both margins give 
rise to ovules, and 
they are consequent- 
ly In two rows. In 
a compound ovary 
there are various 
modifications of the 
placenta. Thus,when 
the edges of the car- 
pellary leaves all 
meet In a common 
axis, the placentas 
are said to be tuilr. 
When, by oblitera- 
tion of the dissepi- 
ments, such an ovary 
becomes one-celled, the axile placentas remain In a col- 
umn as a free central placenta. Or, when the edges of the 
carpellary leaves barely meet and slightly incurve, the 
placentas become parietal, being borne on the wall. There 
are all degrees of Incurvation, the placentas being located 
accordingly. In vascular cryptogams the point giving rise 
to the sporangia Is sometimes called the placenta. The 
placenta Is sometimes termed the trophoipermum and 
spermophorum. See also cut under ovary. - Battledore 
placenta, a placenta which has the cord attached to the 
edge. Deciduate placenta, a placenta which comes 
away entire at parturition, as in woman and many other 
mammals. Discoidal placenta. See ditcoidal. Non- 
declduate placenta, a placenta which is not dcciduate. 
Parietal placenta. See parietal, and def . 4, above. 
Placenta adherent, a placenta which has,through inflam- 
mation during pregnancy, formed adhesions to the uterus. 
Placenta cruoris, blood-clot Placenta prsevla 
that condition of the placenta in which it is attached over 
the internal os, thus necessitating its rupture or detach- 
ment, with consequent hemorrhage, before the contents of 
the uterus can be expelled. Placenta sangulnls, blood- 
clot Placenta succenturia, a supernumerary placen- 
tal mass, produced by the development of an isolated 
patch of chorton villi. Polycotyledonary placenta a 
placenta whose fetal villi are arranged in distinct tufts or 
cotyledons, as In the cow. 
placental (pla-sen'tal), a. and H. [< NL. , 
i. Free central placenta, transverse and 
vertical sections, a. Axile central placenta. 
3. Parietal placenta, a, a. Placentas. 
la- 
garyson in it. 
e jtla 
r, fol. 
ML 
, 
Golding, tr. of Ca 
The king being dead, 
This hand shall place the crown on Queen Jane's head. 
Webster and DeMer, Sir Thomas Wyat, p. 8. 
This seate is admirably placd for field sports, hawking, placentt, n. [< L. placenta, a Cake, = Gr. TrZaKovc 
hunting, or racing. Evely,*, Diary, Sept 10, 1677. V (ff - AaKmv ' T _) f flat cake, COntr. of Wfef M? 
Over all a Counterpane was plac'd. 
Conyrece, Hymn to Venus. 
They are harmful in proportion as the placement of the 
oan disturbs the market value of the commodities. piaueuiai tpia-sen lai;, a. ana n. [^ JNLi. pin- 
Pop. Sci. Mo., x: XI. 415. centalis, < placenta, placenta : see placenta.] I. 
a. 1. Of or pertaining to the placenta. 2. 
Forming or constituted by a placenta: as, pla- 
cen ttil gestation ; a nlacental part of the chonon. 
3. Provided with a placenta; placentate or 
placentary: as, a placental mammal placental 
dystocla, difficult birth of the placenta. Placental 
murmur or souffle, a murmur heard on auscultation of 
the pregnant uterus, and regarded as due to the placental 
circulation. 
II. n. A placental mammal ; any member of 
the Placentalia. 
Afterwards make a confection of it [flower-de-luce] with m--,_4..u_ /! t-n-\ i I-KTT ,n 
clarified hony, which must be so hard that you may make Placentalia (plas-en-ta'li-i), n. pi. [NL. (Bona- 
small placentt or trocisces of it ; dry them in the shadow, parte, 1837), neut. pi. of placentalis : see placen- 
T. Adams, Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 29. to/.] Placental mammals; those mammals 
KOfvr-), flat, < nvldf (;r/a<c-), anything flat.] 
2. To put or set in position or order; arrange ; 
dispose. 
Commend his good choice, and right placing of wordes. 
Aschatn, The Scholemaster, p. 88. 
For he obtaineth places of honor which can most fitly placenta (pla-sen'ta), .; pi. placentas or pla- which are placentate orplacentiferous: distin- 
place his wordes, and most eloquently write of the subject centx (-taz, -te). [= F. Sp. Pg. It. placenta, < guished from Im/tlnci ii/alin. The Placentalia were 
propounded. Purcha, Pilgrimage, p. 4S8. ^L. placenta, placenta (something having a formerly one of two prime divisions of mammals, contrast- 
3. To put in office or a position of authority; flattened circular form), lit. 'cake,' a particu- iton'corres^m'ls^tV'jf^ J^theria 
appoint; ordain to a charge. lar use of L. placenta, a cake: see i>larcnt.] 1. Also Placmtaria. 
