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‖ n. pl. [ Pref. a- not + placenta. ] (Zool.) Mammals which have no placenta. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; a flat cake + fe`rein to bear. ] (Zool.) A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. one of the aplacophora; a deep-water wormlike mollusk lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle.
Syn. -- solenogaster [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ It. beneplacito pleasure, fr. L. bene well + placitus pleasing. ] 1. At or during pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) At pleasure; ad libitum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense. “The birthplace of valor.” Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }. The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A retired or private place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being commonplace; commonness. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ LL. complacentia: cf. F. complaisance. See Complacent, and cf. Complaisance. ] 1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cause of pleasure or joy. “O thou, my sole complacence.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability. [ 1913 Webster ]

Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness,
Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

With mean complacence ne'er betray your trust. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. complacens very pleasing, p. pr. of complacere; com- + placere to please: cf. F. complaisant. See Please and cf. Complaisant. ] Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. [ 1913 Webster ]

They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked by, or causing, complacence. [ Obs. ] “Complacential love.” Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a complacent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Displaced p. pr. & vb. n. Displacing. ] [ Pref. dis- + place: cf. F. déplacer. ] 1. To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To crowd out; to take the place of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To dislodge; to drive away; to banish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You have displaced the mirth. Shak.

Syn. -- To disarrange; derange; dismiss; discard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being displaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. déplacement. ] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Piston displacement (Mech.), the volume of the space swept through, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. displacentia, for L. displicentia, fr. displicere to displease; dis- + placere to please. See Displease, and cf. Displeasance. ] Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One that displaces. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emplaced p. pr. & vb. n. Emplacing ] [ Cf. F. emplacer. See En-; Place, v. & n. ] To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. emplacement. ] A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a farm together with its buildings.
Syn. -- farmstead. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. implacabilitas: cf. F. implacabilité. ] The quality or state of being implacable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. implacabilis; pref. im- not + placabilis: cf. F. implacable. See Placable. ] 1. Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince. [ 1913 Webster ]

I see thou art implacable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

An object of implacable enmity. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incapable of being relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O! how I burn with implacable fire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which wrought them pain
Implacable, and many a dolorous groan. Milton.

Syn. -- Unappeasable; inexorable; irreconcilable; unrelenting; relentless; unyielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being implacable; implacability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an implacable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes; nonplacental. -- n. A mammal having no placenta; a nonplacental mammal. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See In- not, and Placental. ] (Zool.) A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. [ R. ] Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an area in a town where a public market is set up; a market place; a market{ 2 }.
Syn. -- mart. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The commercial activity whereby good and services are exchanged; as, without competition there would be no market.
Syn. -- market. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. The mechanism by which one finds a person to whom to sell or from whom to buy goods; the opportunity to buy and sell; a market{ 3 }; as, to put one's goods on the market. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Misplaced p. pr. & vb. n. Misplacing ] 1. To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place in a location that one does not recall; to mislay; to lose. [ PJC ]

n. The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. placabilitas: cf. F. placabilité. ] The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. placabilis, fr. placare to quiet, pacify: cf. F. placable. See Placate. ] Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Methought I saw him placable and mild. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being placable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Placarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Placarding. ] 1. To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. plaquer to lay or clap on, plaque plate, tablet; probably from Dutch, cf. D. plakken to paste, post up, plak a flat piece of wood. ] 1. A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All placards or edicts are published in his name. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. [ Obs. ] ller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Anc. Armor) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. Planché. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ Cf. Placket. ] A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Placard, 4 & 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Placated p. pr. & vb. n. Placating. ] [ L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate, akin to placere to please. See Please. ] To appease; to pacify; to concilate. “Therefore is he always propitiated and placated.” Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. placatio. ] The act of placating. [ R. ] Puttenham (1589). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. platea a street, an area, a courtyard, from Gr. platei^a a street, properly fem. of platy`s, flat, broad; akin to Skr. p&rsdot_;thu, Lith. platus. Cf. Flawn, Piazza, Plate, Plaza. ] 1. Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is the place appointed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

What place can be for us
Within heaven's bound? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The word place has sometimes a more confused sense, and stands for that space which any body takes up; and so the universe is a place. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. “Hangman boys in the market place.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Are you native of this place? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. “The enervating magic of place.” Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men in great place are thrice servants. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know my place as I would they should do theirs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). “In place of Lord Bassanio.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A definite position or passage of a document. [ 1913 Webster ]

The place of the scripture which he read was this. Acts viii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. [ 1913 Webster ]

My word hath no place in you. John viii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Astron.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Place of arms (Mil.), a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe retreat for hospitals, magazines, etc. Wilhelm. --
High place (Script.), a mount on which sacrifices were offered. “Him that offereth in the high place.” Jer. xlviii. 35. --
In place, in proper position; timely. --
Out of place, inappropriate; ill-timed; as, his remarks were out of place. --
Place kick (Football), the act of kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground. --
Place name, the name of a place or locality. London Academy. --
To give place, to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. “Neither give place to the devil.” Eph. iv. 27. “Let all the rest give place.” Shak. --
To have place, to have a station, room, or seat; as, such desires can have no place in a good heart. --
To take place. (a) To come to pass; to occur; as, the ceremony will not take place. (b) To take precedence or priority. Addison. (c) To take effect; to prevail. “If your doctrine takes place.” Berkeley. “But none of these excuses would take place.” Spenser. --
To take the place of, to be substituted for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Situation; seat; abode; position; locality; location; site; spot; office; employment; charge; function; trust; ground; room; stead. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Placed p. pr. & vb. n. Placing ] [ Cf. F. placer. See Place, n. ] 1. To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
Syn. -- Put. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Place such over them to be rulers. Ex. xviii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. “My resolution 's placed.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. [ 1913 Webster ]

Place it for her chief virtue. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Racing) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

7. (Rugby Football) To place-kick ( a goal). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

8. to recognize or identify (a person). [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., I shall please, fut. of placere to please. ] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A prescription with no pharmacological activity given to a patient to humor or satisfy the desire for medical treatment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) a dose of a compound having no pharmacological activity given to a subject in a medical experiment as part of a control experiment in a test of the effectiveness of another, active pharmacological agent. [ PJC ]

To sing placebo, to agree with one in his opinion; to be complaisant to. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Med.) a reaction by a patient who receives a placebo{ 2 }, in which the symptoms of illness are lessened or an anticipated effect is experienced. Because the placebo{ 2 } itself has no pharmacological activity, this reaction is mediated by the expectations of the patient receiving the placebo{ 2 }; the reaction is considered as an example of the power of suggestion. Dramatic subjective effects such as relief of discomfort or pain are sometimes observed due to administration of a placebo, but in some cases measurable physiological effects may also be observed. [ PJC ]