plash 
Twwd'i echoes heard the ceaseless pUuk, 
While many a broken band, 
IHairdrr'd, through her current* dash, 
To gain the SouUlih land. 
.Scott, Marmlon, rt 34. 
plash- ( plash), r. [OF. platurier, pla issier, ples- 
M. >: plush (cf. *plre (f) (ML. pfessa), a thick- 
et of woven boughs), a secondary form, < L. 
pleetere, weave: see plait, plat*, pleat. Ct. 
pleach, a doublet otp&ttP.] I. trans. To bend 
down and interweave the branches or twigs of: 
i a hedge. 
For Nature, loath, so rare a Jewels wracke, 
Seeiu'd as she here and there had jtath'd a tree, 
If possible to hinder destiny. 
W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, it. 4. 
There l a cupola made with pole-work between two 
elraes at the end of a walk, which, being cover'd by pltuh- 
inu the trees to them, Is very pretty. 
Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 30, 1683. 
II. iiiti-aiiK. To bend down a broncli. 
Home of the trees hung over the wall, and my brother 
did plah and did eat Banyan, Pilgrim's Progress, II. 
plash- (plash), n. [< plasltf, .] A branch of 
a tree partly cut or lopped, and then bent down 
and bound to other branches. Mortimer. 
plashet(plash'et),n. [< plash* + -et. Cf. ML. 
IsUMftMh] A small pond or puddle. 
plashing 1 (plash 'ing), ii. [Verbal n. of plashi, 
r.] A (labeling in water; a sound of plunging 
water. 
plashing 2 (plash'ing), . [Verbal n. otplaslfl, 
r.] A mode of repairing or trimming a hedge, 
by bending down a part of the shoots, cutting 
them half through near the ground, to render 
them move pliable, and twisting them among 
the upright stems, so as to render the whole 
effective as a fence, and at the same time pre- 
serve all the branches alive. 
plashing-tool (plash'ing-tol), ii. A knife used 
in plashing hedges; a hedgiug-knife. 
plashoott (plash'8t), . [Appar. for 'plashet, 
< plaslft + -et, the term, accom. to shoot (young 
twig).] A fence made of branches of trees in- 
terwoven. 
Woodcocks arrive first on the north coast, where almost 
every hedge serveth for a road, and every ptashoot for 
sprlngles to take them. R. Carew. Survey of Cornwall, p. 24. 
plash-wheel (plash'hwel), . Same as daxli- 
iclieel. 
plashy (plash'i), a. [< plasM + -i/'.] 1. Wa- 
tery; abounding with puddles ; fvill of puddles; 
wet; moist. 
They shed their waters Into the valley below, making it 
plathy In sundry places. Sandyt, Travailes, p. 169. 
He also, being past Adrians wall I A. n. 209], cut down 
Woods, made way through Hills, fast'nd and flll'd up 
unsound and plashy Fens. Milton, Hist. Eng., 11. 
Along the streaming mountain-side, and through 
The dripping woods, and o'er thepiaslty fields. 
Bryant, Rain-Dream. 
One among many plathy meadows, enclosed with stone 
walls. K. Dowden, Shelley, I. 87. 
2. Speckled as if plashed or splashed with col- 
oring liquid. 
In his grasp 
A serpent's plathy neck ; its barbed tongue 
Squeezed from the gorge, and all its uncurl'd length 
Dead. Kent*, Hyperion, it 
plasm (pla/.m), n. [< LL. plasma, < Gr. ir)MO[ia, 
a figure formed or molded from clay or wax, 
an image, counterfeit, an assumed form or man- 
ner, < irloaoctv, form, mold : see plastic.] 1. 
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or 
formed to a particular shape. [Rare.] 
The shells served as pttuna or moulds to this sand. 
Woodtcard. 
2. In Wo/., plasma. See bioplasm, dcutoplagm, 
protoplasm, plafmogeii, sarcode. 
plasma (plas'mft), . [NL. : see plasm.] 1. 
A variety of translucent quart!!, or silica, of a 
rich grass-green or leek-green color, occurring 
in large pieces, associated with common chal- 
cedony. Many fine engraved ornaments of 
thix Htone have been found among the ruins of 
Home. 2. The liquid part of unaltered blood, 
lymph, or milk, as distinguished from the cor- 
piisi-les of the blood or lymph, or the oil-glob- 
ules of the milk ; also, the juice expressed from 
fresh muscle; the muscle-plasma. 3. The 
primitive indifferent nitrogeni/.t'd hydrocarbon 
which forms the basis of all tissues of plants 
and itnimals; the "physical basis of life," in 
its simplest expression: now generally called 
l>riitiii>lnsiii. Planna Is now leu used In this sense 
than formerly, a It had originally the more restricted 
Jilt-anil, u glvrii j n def. 2. See protuflom and riareh. 
4. In i>lir., same as glycerite ofstan-li. 
plasmasome iplas'um-som), n. [< Or. ic'/Mo/ia, 
a molded figure (see plasm), + auan, body.] A 
4334 
separate particle of plasm ; protoplasmic cor- 
puscle. 
The out-wandering platmatomeitona the so-called par*- 
nuclei Micro*. Sei., XXX. ii. 188. 
plasmatic (plas-mat 'ik), a. [= F. plasmatique, 
< Gr. w'/aafiaTtis6c, imitating, < TrlAaua, a molded 
figure, an image : see plasm.'} 1. In Dial., same 
Htiplasmie. 2\. Giving shape; having the pow- 
er of giving form; plastic. Imp. Diet. 
plasmatical (plas-mat'i-kal), a. [< plasmatic 
+ -al.] Same as plasmatic. 
Working In this, by her (Psyche's) platmatieat spirits or 
archei, all the whole world into order and shape. 
Dr. B. More, Phllos. Poems (1647X P. 842, notes. 
plasmationt (plas-ina'shon), n. [< LL. plasma- 
tio(n-), a forming, creating, < plasma, a molded 
figure, an image: see plasm.] Formation. 
The plannation or creation of Adam is reckoned among 
the generations. Orafton, Chron. I. 8. 
plasmatoparous (plas-ma-top'a-rus), a. [< Gr. 
ir'Aaafia (irtMOfiar-), a molded figure, + L. 
plaster 
ties, as formed by the plasmodiate members of 
the Protozoa. True plasmodlum is formed by the or- 
ganic fusion of two or several amuebiform bodies, and dis- 
tinguished from the aggregate ptatmodium resulting from 
mere contact See cut under Protomyxa. 
2. A definite quantity of plasmodium, or the 
pliismodium of given individual organisms. 
Large masses of gelatinous consistence characteristic of 
the so called animal phase of the Myxomycetan, techni- 
cally known as the platmodium. 
W. S. Kent, Infusoria, p. 42. 
3. The naked multinucleated mass of proto- 
plasm, exhibiting anweboid movement, which 
makes up the entire plant-body of the slime- 
molds (Myxomycetes) during the vegetative 
period of their existence. See Myxomycetes, 
slime-mold, Fuligo, 2, and Olpidium Plasmodi- 
um malaria, a series of forms found in malarial blood, 
believed to be different stages in the life-history of a 
single organism which causes paludism. Some of these 
forms are nma'biform, some crescent-shaped, some ro> 
aette-shnped, some clliate; some contain pigment-gran- 
ules, and some do not. 
plasmogen (plas'mo-jen), n. [< Gr. riAn^a, a 
molded figure, + -jevfo, producing: see -gen.] 
parere, 
bring forth.] In mycology, noting germination 
in which the whole protoplasm of a gonidium True protoplasm ; bioplasm. See the quotation, 
issues as a spherical mass which at once be- W A germ-plasma. 
comes invested with a membrane and puts out 
a germ-tube. De Bary. 
plasmatort, . [ME., = F. plasmateur, < LL. 
plasmator, a former, fashioner, creator, < plas- 
mare, form, mold, fashion, < plasma, a molded 
figure : see plasm.] One who forms or creates ; 
a creator. 
Physiologists have come to use the word "protoplasm" 
for one of the chemical substances of which Schultze's 
protoplasm is a structural mixture mimely, that highest 
point in the chemical elaboration of the molecule which 
is attached within the protoplasm, and up to which some 
of the chemical bodies present are tending, whilst others 
are degradation product* resulting from a downward met- 
Hayle '. fulgent Phebus and fader eternall, 
Parnte BiMmotor and god omnipotent. 
York Playt, p. 514. 
amorpnosis of portions of It. This intangible, unstable, 
all-pervading element of the protoplasm cannot at present 
be identified with any visibly separate part of the cell-sub- 
stance. . . . This " critical " substance, sometimes called 
"true protoplasm," should assuredly be recognized by a 
plasmaturet, [< LL. plasma(t-), a molded distinct name "plamnogen" Eneyc. Brit., XXIV. B17. 
figure, + -xre.] Form; shape. nlasmoeonv (i>las-moe'6-ni). n. IX Gr. ri.aoua. 
That so stately frame and platmature wherein the man 
at first had been created. Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, ii. 8. 
plasmic (plaz'mik), a. [< plasm + -ic.] Of 
the nature of plasma ; pertaining to plasma ; 
plastic or formative; blastemic; protoplasmic: 
as, plasmic substances or processes; a plasmic 
origin. Also plasmatic. 
plasmine (plas'min), M. [<Gr. ir'/.ao/ia, a molded 
figure, + -i'c 2 .] A proteid precipitated from 
blood-plasma on the addition of sodium chlorid 
and other salts. It coagulates, forming fibrin, 
when redissolved in water. 
plasmochyme (plas'mo-kim), . [< Gr. ir/.aa- 
fia, a molded figure, + x v f6s> juice, chyle: see 
cliyme 1 .] The thick fluid albuminous substance 
of a cell. Alsoplasmochym. Micros. .So'., XXX. 
ii. 211. 
plasmode (plas'mod), 11. Same as plasmodium. 
plasmodia, n. Plural of plasmodium. 
plasmodial (plas-mo'di-al), a. [< plasmodi-ni 
+ -al.] Having the character or properties of 
plasmodium. Also plasmodic. 
Plasmodiata (plas-mo-di-a'ta), n. pi. [NL. : 
see plasmodium.] Plasmodiate organisms: a 
synonym of Mycetozoa when these are regarded 
as animals. E. K. Lankester. 
plasmodiate (plas-md'di-at), n. [< plasmodi- 
um + -ate 1 .] Provided with or producing plas- 
rnodia; consisting of or contained in plasmo- 
dium. 
plasmodiation (plas-mo-di-a'shon), n. [^plas- 
modiate + -ion.] In hot., the disposition of 
plasmodia. Jour, of Sot. British and Foreign, 
1883, p. 371. 
plasmodic (plas-mod'ik), a. [< plasmodi-um 
+ -ic.] Same as plasmodial. 
plasmodiocarp (plas-mo'di-o-kiirp), n. [< NL. 
plasmodium + Gr. ica/mof , a fruit.] In Myxo- 
mycetes, a form of fructification which is more 
or less irregular in shape. Compare setlialitim, 2, 
and sporangium. COOKS, Myxomycetes of Great 
Britain, p. 30. 
plasmodiocarpous (plas-mo'di-o-kftr'pus), a. 
[< plasmodiocarp + -ous.] Resembling, char- 
acterized by, or producing plasmodiocarps. 
Cooke, Myxomycetes of Great Britain, p. 30. 
Plasmodiophora (plas-mo-di-of 'o-rft), n. [NL. 
A genus of myxomycetous fungi, giving name 
to the family PUismodiopliorejf. The spores are 
free, not quatemate, and are disposed in sori ; 
they emit zofopores in germination. 
Plasmodiophoreae (plas-mo'di-o-fo're-e), it. pi. 
I N L. (Zopf), < Plojtmodiophora + -e.l A fam- 
ily of myxomycetouB fungi with the fructifica- 
tion <li-|>ceil ill son. 
plasmodium (iilas-mo'di-um), ii. : pi. plnxiH<>itni 
[NL., < Gr. x/.aaua, a molded figure, + 
liXnf, form.] 1. Protoplasm of protozoans in 
sheets, masses, or comparatively large quanti- 
plasmogony (plas-mog'o-ni), . [< Gr. i 
a molded figure, -t--)<n>m,' general ion: see -flwi y.] 
The generation or origination of an organism 
from plasma. Sossiter. 
plasmology (plas-mol'o-ji), . [< Gr. itUa/ia, 
a moldeu figure, + -/oj/a, < Ztytiv, speak: see 
-ology.] Minute or microscopic anatomy, as a 
branch of biology; histology; the study of the 
ultimate corpuscles of living matter, as regards 
their structure, development, and properties, 
with the aid of the microscope. 
plasmolysis (nlas-mol'i-sis), n. [NL., < Gr. 
K'/.aofia, a molded figure, + /t>ovf, a loosing.] In 
hot., the contraction of the protoplasm in ac- 
tive cells under the action of certain reagents. 
When the solutions employed are more dense than the 
fluids within the cell, a certain amount of water will be 
withdrawn from the contents of the cell by exosmotlc 
action, thereby causing a shrinking which can easily be 
noted under the microscope, and, when the density of 
the solution Is known, will allow the experimenter to as- 
certain within very narrow limits the density of the con- 
tents of the cell and the relative degree of turgldity. 
plasmolytic (plas-mo-lit'ik), a. [< plasmolysis 
(-lyt-) + -ic.] In hot., exhibiting or character- 
ized by plasmolysis ; employed in plasmolysis. 
plasmolyze (plas'mo-liz), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
plasmolyzed, ppr. plasmolyzing. [tplasmolyiris.] 
To effect plasmolysis in or of; subject to plas- 
molysis. Also spelled plasmolyse. 
In order to see the primordial utricle letter, plamolyte 
the cell by miming In 10 p. c. salt solution. 
Uuxley and Martin, Elementary Biology, p. 404. 
plaster (plas'ter), n. [Formerly also plaixtrr, 
plai/strr; < ME. plaster, also piastre, playster 
(after OF.), < AS. plaster = D. pleistcr = MLG. 
plaster = OHG. pftlastar, plastar. MUG. pMas- 
ter,pflaster, plaster, G. pflaster = Sw. plaster = 
Dan. plaster = OF. piastre, platstre, a plaster, 
plaster, F.pldtre, gypsum, = Pr. plaxtre, a plas- 
ter, = It. dim. piaatrello, a plaster (ML. plas- 
tnim, gypsum); with loss of orig. prefix; MK. 
enplastre, < OF. mtplastrr, F. empldlre, a plas- 
ter, < L. emplastrum, a plaster for a wound, < 
Gr. tfiiOjaxrrpov for fuir'/aarav, a plaster: see i m- 
plaster.'] 1. In phar., a solid compound in- 
tended for external application, adhesive ;it 
the temperature of the human body, and re- 
quiring to be softened by heat before being 
spread. 
My myddell wonndys they ben dernc it depe ; 
Ther ys no flatter that persyth aryght. 
Political Poem*, etc. (ed. Kurnlvall), p. 215. 
Where any private harm doth grow, we are not to reject 
instruction as being an unmeet plaiMer to apply unto It 
Uooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 12. 
2. A composition of lime, water, and snnd, 
\\ itli or without hair for binding, well mixed -> 
as to form a kind of paste, and used for eoat- 
ing walls and partitions of houses. 
A House shoii d l built or with lirlck or with Stone; 
Why 'tis riawtrr and Ijith ; and I think that's ill one. 
l-riur, Ihiwii-llall, st. 88. 
