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The pretty innocent walks blindfold among burning 
ptoughjhares without being fcorched. Addifon's Spectator. 
PLOUGH-STAFF, f. A kind of paddle to clear the 
fliare and coulter when choked up with earth or weeds. 
PLOUGH-TAI'L, f. The extreme part of the plough, 
that part which the ploughman holds. Figuratively, the 
country, rural life. 
PLOUGH'ER, f. One who ploughs or cultivates 
ground.—When the country {hall be repleniffied with 
corn, as it will, if well followed ; for the country people 
themfelves are great ploughers and fmall fpenders of 
corn ; then there ffiould be good {tore of magazines 
erected. Spenfer. —The ploughers ploughed upon my 
back ; they made long their furrows. Pf. cxxix. 3. 
PLOUGH'ING, J'. Operation by the plough.—They 
only give the land one ploughing, and fow white oats, 
and harrow them as they do black. Mortimer's Huf- 
bandry. —Fealts celebrated by fervants alone, when their 
plowing was over. Sheridan’s Tr. of Perfeus. 
PLOU'GUENAST, a town in France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the North Coalts, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrift of Loudeac : feven miles north-north-ealt 
of Loudeac. Population 3189. 
PLOU'HA, a town of France, department of the Cotes- 
du-Nord. Population, with its pariftt, 3100 : fourteen 
miles north-weft of St. Brieux. 
PLOU'HA (Pointe du), a cape on the north-weft 
coaft of France, in the Englifti Channel. Lat. 48. 41. N. 
Ion. 2. 48. W. 
PLOUZEC', a cape on the north-weft cape of France, 
in the Engliffi Channel. Lat. 48.35. N. Ion 2. 52. W. 
PLOUZEVE'DE, a town of France, department of 
Finifterre. Population 2400: fourteen miles weft of 
Morlaix. 
PLOW, &c. See Plough. 
PLOWDEN (Edmund), fergeant at law, defcended 
from an ancient family in Shropffiire, was born in 1517 ; 
and was firlt a ftudent of the univerfity of Cambridge, 
where he fpent three years in the ftudy of philofophy 
and medicine. He then removed to Oxford, where, 
Iming continued his former ftudies about four years 
more, in 1552 he was admitted to the praftice of phyfic 
and forgery : but, probably finding the practice of the 
art of healing lefs agreeable than the ftudy, he entered 
himfelf of the Middle Temple, and began to read law. 
Wood fays, that in 1557 he was fummer-reader to that 
fociety, and lent-reader three years after, being then 
fergeant and oracle of the law. He died in the year 
1584, aged 67 ; and was buried in the Temple church. 
He wrote, i„ Commentaries or Reports of divers Cafes, 
&c. in the Reigns of King Edward VI. Queen Mary, 
and Queen Elizabeth ; Lond. 1571, 78, 99, 1613, &c. 
written in the old Norman language. 2. Queries, or 
a Moot book of Cafes; See. tranllated, methodized, and 
enlarged, by H. B. of Lincoln’s-Inn ; Lond. 1662, 8vo. 
PLO'YEST, a fmall town of European Turkey, in 
Walachia, with a well-frequented weekly market. 
PLUCHE (Antony, Abbe), an elegant and inge¬ 
nious writer, was born at Rheims in 1688. His literary 
reputation caufed him to be nominated profeffor of 
humanity in that univerfity, and, two years afterwards, 
of rhetoric, at which time he entered into hojy 
orders. He undertook the education of the fon of 
the intendant of Rouen ; and, when he had completed 
it, he went to Paris, where he gave ledlures in geography 
and hiftory. In that capital he acquired a name among 
the men of letters by his popular work, entitled, “Spec¬ 
tacle de la Nature,” of which the firft volume appeared 
in 1732, and which was carried on to 9 vols. 12010. It 
is a view of the moft interefting fafts in natural hiftory, 
in the form of dialogue, agreeably written upon the 
whole, though rendered verbofe by its form, and rather 
luperficial in its matter. Few works of the kind have 
been more read, and it was tranllated into various lan- 
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guages. His next publication was “ Hiftoire du Ciel,” 
3 vols. i2mo. which concludes with a confirmation of the 
Mofaic account of creation. This work is reckoned 
to poffefs more learning and ingenuity than found phi¬ 
lofophy. The abbe was a firm believer in revelation, 
and publilhed, in 1750, “ The Truth of the Gofpel de- 
monftrated a learned performance, but calculated chiefly 
for Roman-catholic readers. Fie diftinguilhed himfelf 
as a philologilt by his “ Mecanique des Langues, et l’Art 
de les Enfeigner,” 121110. 1751; an ufeful and judicious 
treatife. On account of a deafnefs which rendered him 
unfit for fociety, he had retired in 1749 t0 LaVarenne Sr. 
Maur, where he devoted himfelf entirely to ftudy and 
religious exercifes. He died in this retreat in 1761, at 
the age of 73, leaving the character of a truly virtuous 
and refpeftable man. After his death, appeared in 1764 
two pofthumous works of his, entitled “ Concorde de la 
Geographie des differens Ages.” and “ Harmonie des 
Pfeaumes et del’Evangile.” Nouv. Diet. Hijl. Monthly Rev. 
To PLUCK, v. a. [pluccian, Sax. pluehen, Teut.] 
To pull with nimblenefs or force; to fnatch ; to pull; 
to draw; to force on or off; to force up or down ; to aft 
upon with violence. It is very generally and licentioufiy 
ufed, particularly by Shakefpeare. It has often fome 
particle after it, as down,off, on, away, up, into. —It feemed 
better unto that noble king to plant a peaceable govern¬ 
ment among them, than by violent means to pluck them 
under. Spenfer on Ireland. — Pluck away his crop with his 
feathers. Lev. i. 16.—A time to plant, and a time to 
pluck up that which is planted. Eccles. iii. 2. 
You were crown’d before; 
And that high royalty was ne’er pluck’d off'. Shakefpeare. 
Pluck down my officers, break my decrees, 
For now a time is come, to mock at form. S/iakefieare. 
Can’ll: thou not 
Pluck from the memory a rooted forrow, 
And with fome fweet oblivious antidote 
Cleanfe the fluff’d bofom. Shakefpeare's Macbeth. 
If you do wrongfully feize Hereford’s right, 
You plucks, thoufand dangers on your head. Shakefpeare. 
Dive into the bottom of the deep, 
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, 
And pluck up drowned honour by thelocks. Shakefpeare-. 
Difpatch e’m quick, but firft pluck out their tongues, 
Left with their dying breath they fow fedition. Addifon. 
Beneath this {hade the weary peafant lies, 
Plucks the broad leaf, and bids the breezes rife. Gay. 
To ftrip off feathers.— Since I pluckt geefe, I knew not 
what it was to be beaten. Shakefpeare. 
1 0 Pluck up a heart or fpirit. A proverbial expreffioR 
for taking up or refuming of courage.—He willed them 
to pluck up their hearts, and make all things ready for 
a new affault, wherein he expedited they fliould with 
courageous resolution recompenfe their late cowardice. 
Rnolles's Hijlon/ of the Turks. 
PLUCK, f A'pull; a draw ; a Angle aft of plucking. 
—Birds kept coming and going all day ; but fo few at a 
time, that the man did not think them worth a pluck. 
L’ Eft range. —Where the ends of the bones dry, they 
could nor, without great difficulty, obey the plucks and 
attractions of the motary mufcles. Ray on the Creation. — 
[P/ughk, Erie.] The heart, liver, and lights, of an animal. 
PLUCKART BA'Y, a fouth-eaft branch of Loch 
Ewe, on the weft coaft of Scotland. Lat. 57. 45. N, Ion. 
5. 34. W. 
PLUCK'EMIN, a poll village of the United States, in 
Somerfet County, New Jerfey. 
PLUCK'ER, f One that plucks.-—Thou fetter-up 
and plucher- down of kings! Shakefpeare’s Hen. VI. P. III. 
—Pull it as foon as you fee the feed begin to grow brown, at 
which time let the pluckers tie it up in handfuls. Mortimer. 
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