706 
P L U 
Duodecimals. 
39 6 
Decimals. 
3 3 
39‘5 
3 i 
118 6 
9 106 
118-5 
9-875 
128 46 
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128-375 
IO24 
64 
3027*000 
2 I 
64-1875 
nil 
°1 8 
1091-1875 lbs. 
IOgi-J^g- lbs. 
Required the coft of the covering and guttering of a 
roof with lead, at 18s. the cwt. the length of the roof 
being 43 feet, and the breadth or girth over it 32 feet, 
the guttering 57 feet long, and two feet wide ; the former 
9-831 lbs. and the latter, 7-373 lbs. to the fquare foot ? 
Anf. 115I. 9s. 1 l-d. Hutton's Menfuration. 
PLUM'BUM, f. [Latin.] Lead. See the article Mi¬ 
neralogy, vol. xv. p. 501. 
Alfton Moor, Cumberland, is become one of the molt 
flourifhing towns in the north of England, owing to the 
richnefs of the lead-mines. The proprietor of Hudgill- 
burn mine, cleared, it is laid, in the year 1822, between 
30 and 40,0001. exclufive of the fifth lot of ore toj the 
governors of Greenwich Hofpital, as lords of the manor. 
The whole of the land itfelf, under which the mine is 
fituated,is not worth 4I. per annum. 
PLUME, f. [Fr. pluma, Lat.] Feather of birds.— 
Wings he wore of many a colour’d plume. Milton. 
Let frantick Talbot triumph for a while, 
And, like a peacock, fweep along his tail ; 
We’ll pull his plumes , and take away his train. Skakefp. 
Feathers worn as an ornament.—Eaftern travellers know 
that oftridges feathers are common, and the ordinary 
plume of Janizaries. Brown. 
Let every feeble rumour (hake your hearts, 
Your enemies with nodding of their plumes 
Fan you into defpair. Shakefpeare’s Coriol. 
With this againe he rulht upon his gueft. 
And caught him by the horfe-haire plume that dangled 
on his creft. Chapman. 
Token of honour; prize of conteft.—Ambitious to win 
from me forr.e plume. Milton's P. L. 
Plume, in botany, the down of plants, that part of 
the feed which opens like a little bunch of feathers. 
To PLUME, v. a. To pick and adjuft feathers.— 
Swans mult be kept in fome enclofed pond, where they 
may have room to come alhore and plume themfeives. 
Mortimer. 
Wifdom’s feIf 
Oft feeks to fvveet retir’d folitude. 
Where, with her belt nurfe, Contemplation, 
She plumes her leathers, and lets grow her wings. Milton. 
To feather.—The bird was hatched in the council of 
Lateran, anno, 1215 ; fully plumed in the council of 
Trent. Bp. Hall.' —To place as a plume: 
His ftature reach’d the Iky, and on his creft 
Sat horror plum'd. ’ Milton's P. L. 
To adorn with plumes: 
Farewell the plumed troops, and the big war, 
That make ambition virtue. Shakeip ear e's Othello. 
To make proud, as, he plumes himfelf. To ftrip of 
feathers.—Such animals, as feed upon flefh, devour fome 
part of the feathers of the birds they gorge themfeives 
with, becaufe they will not take the pains fully to plume 
them. Ray . 
P L U 
Not with more eafe the falcon from above 
Trufles in middle air the trembling dove, 
Then plumes the prey, in her ftrongpounces bound; 
The feathers, foul with blood, come tumbling to the 
ground. Dry den. 
To ftrip ; to pill.—They ftuck not to fay, that the king 
cared not to plume the nobility and people to feather 
himfelf. Bacon, 
PLUME, a town of France, department of the Lot and 
Garonne, containing, with its parifh, 2700 inhabitants: 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Nerac. 
PLU'ME-ALUM, or Feathered Alum. See Af- 
lejlus fragilis, vol. xv. p. 445.— Plume-alum, formed into 
the likenefs of a wick, will adminifter to the flame, and 
yet not confume. Wilkins. 
PLU'ME-PLUCKED, adj. Deprived of marks of dif- 
tin&ion ; degraded; difgraced: 
Great duke of Lancafter, I come to thee 
From plume-pluckt Richard, who with willing foul 
Adopts thee heir. ShakeJ'peare's Richard II. 
PLU'ME-STRIKER, A pickthank, one that endea¬ 
vours to blaft the reputation of another. Ajh. 
PLU'MELESS, adj. Without feathers : 
Each [bat] wondering upw’ard fprings, 
Borne on unknown, traniparent, plumelefs, wings. Eufden. 
PLU'MENAU, or Plum'lavv, a towm of Moravia, in 
the circle of Olmutz : four miles weft of Proznitz. 
PLU'MENTAAL, a town of Aultria: four miles weft 
of Zifterfdorf. 
PLUME'RIA, f. [fo named by Tournefort, in honour 
of its difcoverer, Charles Plumier. See that article.] 
In botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order rno- 
nogynia, natural order of contorfae, (apocineas, Jujf.) 
Generic characters—Calyx: perianihiurn five-parted, 
blunt, very fmall. Corolla: one petalled, funnel-form; 
tube long ; widening gradually : border five-parted, 
from ereCt fpreading; fegments ovate-oblong, oblique. 
Stamina : filaments five, awl-fhaped, from the middle of 
the tube. Antherte converging. Piftillum: germen 
oblong, bifid; ftyles fcarcely any; ftigma double, acumi¬ 
nate. Pericarpium : follicles two, long, acuminate, veil- 
tricofe, bent downwards, nodding, one-celled, one- 
valved. Seeds numerous, oblong, inferted into a larger 
ovate membrane at the bafe, imbricate.— Ejjential Cha¬ 
racter. Contorted: follicles two, reflex; feeds inferted 
into their proper membrane. There are fix fpecies. 
1. Plumeria rubra, or red plumeria: leaves ovate- 
oblong, petioles biglandular. Red plumeria, called red 
jafmine in Jamaica, and Italian jafmine by Mad. Merian 
of Surinam, rifes to the height of eighteen or twenty 
feet. The ftalks are covered with a dark green bark, 
having marks where the leaves are fallen off; they are 
fucculenr, abound with a milky juice, and within are 
fomewhat woody. Towards the top they put out a few 
thick fucculent branches, with leaves at their ends of a 
light-green colour, full of milky juice, having a large mid¬ 
rib and many tranfverfe veins. At the ends of the 
branches alfo come out the flowers in clufters; (haped 
like thofe of the oleander, or rofe-bay, of a pale red 
colour, and having an agreeable odour. The flowers 
arefo fweet as well as beautiful, that the women in South 
America adorn their hair with them, and put them among 
linen to fcent it as we do lavender. According to Linnaeus, 
it is a native of Surinam. In the Kew Catalogue, and by 
Mr. Curtis, it is fet down as a native of Jamaica. Browne 
does not give it as indigenous of that illand. Miller 
fays it grows naturally in the Spanilh Weft Indies, where 
it is cultivated in the gardens for ornament. Jacquin 
confirms this, faying that it feems to have been tranf- 
ported into the Caribbee iflands from the American con¬ 
tinent. 
13 . Miller has a variety of this, which he calls Plu¬ 
meria incarnata. He received it from the ifland of Sr. 
2 Chriftopher, 
