Plant

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The sole of the foot.

II. Plant ·noun A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

III. Plant ·noun A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

IV. Plant ·vi To perform the act of Planting.

V. Plant ·noun A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

VI. Plant ·noun To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

VII. Plant ·noun An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

VIII. Plant ·noun To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.

IX. Plant ·noun To set up; to Install; to Instate.

X. Plant ·noun To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

XI. Plant ·noun To Engender; to Generate; to set the germ of.

XII. Plant ·noun To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

XIII. Plant ·noun To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to Settle; to Establish; as, to plant a colony.

XIV. Plant ·noun To set firmly; to Fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

XV. Plant ·noun A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

XVI. Plant ·noun The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

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