Definition: 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.
Definition: A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
Definition: The sole of the foot.
Definition: 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.
Definition: A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
Definition: An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of
natural growth.
Definition: A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
Definition: To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to
plant maize.
Definition: To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a
vegetable with roots.
Definition: To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden,
an orchard, or a forest.
Definition: To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
Definition: To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle;
to establish; as, to plant a colony.
Definition: To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as,
to plant Christianity among the heathen.
Definition: 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.
Definition: To set up; to install; to instate.
Definition: To perform the act of planting.
