plat

n. Work done by platting or braiding; a plait. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat. Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [ Obs. ] Drant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n. Platting. ] [ See Plait. ] To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. “They had platted a crown of thorns.” Matt. xxvii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. plat. See Plate, n. ] Plain; flat; level. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a piece of ground. ] A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To lay out in plats or plots, as ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] “To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat.” Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. platanus. See Plane the tree. ] [ Written also platane. ] The plane tree. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. platanista a sort of fish, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. plataniste. ] (Zool.) The soosoo. [ 1913 Webster ]