Word Meanings - PLEACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak. (more info) plicare, plicitum, to fold, lay, or wind together. Cf. Plash to

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• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• INTERLOCK
  To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
• BOWER BIRD
  An Australian bird , allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird. Note: The name is also applied to other related birds of the same region, having
• UNITEDLY
  In an united manner. Dryden.
• PLASHOOT
  A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed. Carew.
• PLASHY
  1. Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. "Plashy fens." Milton. "The plashy earth." Wordsworth. 2. Specked, as if plashed with color. Keats.
• BOWERY
  Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.
• PLASH
  1. A small pool of standing water; a puddle. Bacon. "These shallow plashes." Barrow. 2. A dash of water; a splash.
• PLASHET
  A small pond or pool; a puddle.
• INTERWEAVE
  1. To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. Milton. 2. To intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect
• PLEACH
  To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak. (more info) plicare, plicitum, to fold, lay, or wind together. Cf. Plash to
• TOGETHER
  togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
• BOWER-BARFF PROCESS
  A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º
• UNITER
  One who, or that which, unites.
• PLASHING
  1. The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges. 2. The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.
• UNITED
  Combined; joined; made one. United Brethren. See Moravian, n. -- United flowers , flowers which have the stamens and pistils in the same flower. -- The United Kingdom, Great Britain and Ireland; -- so named since January 1, 1801, when
• UNITE
  1. To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars by welding; to unite two armies. 2. Hence, to join
• BOWER
  An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. 3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor. (more
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• ALUNITE
  Alum stone.
• REUNITEDLY
  In a reunited manner.
• BRAUNITE
  A native oxide of manganese, of dark brownish black color. It was named from a Mr. Braun of Gotha.
• SPLASHY
  Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
• PREMUNITE
  To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. Fotherby.
• IMPLEACH
  To pleach; to interweave. Shak.
• DISUNITE
  1. To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter. 2. To alienate in spirit; to break the concord of. Go on both in hand, O nations, never be disunited, be the praise
• ALTOGETHER
  1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.
• IMBOWER
  See EMBOWER
• REUNITE
  To unite again; to join after separation or variance. Shak.
• AUTUNITE
  A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales. H., 2- 2.5. Sp. gr., 3.05-3.19.
• CROSSBOWER
  A crossbowman.