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 Plat bord. See Bord. Plat païs. The countrey; also, a vale, dale, plaine, or plaine region, low countrey.  La besace, ou bourse plate. An emptie wallet, or purse.  Maison plate. (Opposed vnto Chasteau) a house which hath neither towers, nor moat; a plaine-built, or plaine countrey, house.  Pied plat. A splay foot.  À plate cousture. Rudely, plainly, after the homeliest fashion; also, flatly, fully, vtterly, throughly; as vnder Cousture. Platane: f. The right Plane tree; (a stranger in England.)

Plateaux: m. Flat and thinne stones; flakes of stones, &c.  Fumées en plateaux. Flat grattiching, fewmishing (or dung) of a Deere.

Plateforme: f. A platforme, plot, modell, or draught of a building; also, the foundation thereof; also, a platforme, or square bulwarke; also, a certaine thicke boord in the prow of a ship.

Platelée: f. A platterfull, or dish-full, of.

Plat-escuelle: f. A deepe dish, or platter.

Plat-fond: m. The plaine ground of, or vnder, fretting, or any high-raised worke.

Platin: m. A flat; a flat strand, low coast, or low peece of ground, neere vnto the sea.  Platin de fer. A cart-clowt of yron.

Platine: f. A flat, or thinne peece of wood, or mettall; and hence, a spring-pinne; or a thinne plate of yron, put betweene the end of an yron pinne, and a frame, to keep it the faster; also, as Patine. Cautere à platine. The plate-cauter; See Cautere. Platis: m. A flat, shelfe, or shallow place in the water.

Platte: f. A Bleake (fish.)

Platteaux. Looke Plateaux. Plattebande: f. A flat band, or bend.

Platteforme. as Plateforme. Plattiz. Looke Platis. Platuse: f. A Plaice (fish;) ¶Langued. Plau: m. The South wind.

Plauder. Seeke Pelauder. Plauton: m. A clue, or bottome.

Playe: f. A wound, bloudwipe, sore cut, gash, incision, hurt; also, as Plage. Playe faitte à Iustice. Tyrannie, or iniustice, curbing, or ouer-ruling iustice.  Debonnaire Mire fait playe puante: Prov. &; vn piteux medecin fait vne mortelle playe: Prov. A pitifull Chirurgian makes a pitifull sore.

Playé: m. ée: f. Wounded; sore cut, or hurt.

Player. To wound, cut, gash, giue a bloudwipe vnto.

Playt. as Plait; (an old word.)

Plect, & cheval de service. Due in some places, and cases, from the vassall to the Lord feudal (as vnder Service;) This word is also, in the customes of Britanie, ill printed for Plaid. Plect de mortemain. 50 s. for a Masure de terre, due vnto Landlords (in diuers parts of Poictou) at the death, or change, of their tenants.

Plectre: m. The quill, or bow, wherewith a Citterne, or Violl, is played on.

Plege: m. A pledge, a suretie, an vndertaker for.

Plegement. as Pleigement.

Pleger. To vndertake, be pledge, become suretie, for. Se pleger. To complaine of; to commence a suit, or bring an Action, against. Pleger l'emende. To acknowledge his fault, and pray the fauour of the Court before Judgement, thereby to lessen his penaltie, or punishment.

Plegerie: f. Suretiship; an vndertaking, or answering for.

Plegeur: m. A Plaintife in an Action.

Pleïade: f. One of the seuen starres.

Pleige: m. A Pledge, a Suretie; one that vndertakes, or answers, for another.

Pleigement: m. A pledging, vndertaking, or answering, for; also, a complaint preferred, suit commenced, or Action brought, vpon an impeachment, or disturbance, of possession.

Pleiger. To be a Pledge, or Suretie, to vndertake, or answer, for; Looke Pleger. Qui pleige paye: Prov. A Suretie's sure to pay.

Plein: m. A Plaine; Looke Plain. Plein: m. eine: f. Full; whole, compleat, absolute, large, ample, solide; also, gorged, stuft, replenished, well furnished, stored, fraught, with.  Pleine. (Feminine) The same; also, big-bellied, bagd, or great with young; (a word onely for beasts.)  Pleines armes. Armes, or a Coat, without difference; belongs to the chiefe, or eldest, of a House.  Pleine Cour. A Court Leet, or Baron, whereto a sufficient number of Pairs, Assistants, or Hommes de fief, be suitors.  Plein fief. Looke Fief. Pleine nuict. Darke-night, bed-time, the second watch of the night; En pleine nuict. When all was husht, when euerie one asleepe.  Pleine puissance. Absolute, Monarchall, or Soueraigne power.  Plein relief. Seeke Relief. À plein pied. Of an euen ground; or with a leuell floore.  Mettre à plein pied. To rase; to lay euen, or leuell with the ground.  Mettre sur le plein pied. To set full vpon the legs; to settle, or giue sure footing vnto.  Sain, & plein de vie. In health, and like to liue.  Tout plein d'autres choses. Many other, or, a great sort of other, things.  Donner le plein & le rond à. To perfect, consummate, accomplish.  Tel est plein qui se plaind: Pro. The wealthie churle complaines of want.  On lie bien le sac avant qu'il soit plein: Prov. An emptie sacke will easily be tied; or, as vnder Sac. Pleinement. Fully, wholly, compleatly; absolutely, throughly, soundly; abundantly, largely, amply.

Plein-fief. Looke Fief. Plein-foncé: m. ée: f. Spacious, big, full, wide, large; wherein there is stuffe, or scope, ynough.

Pleintithe. as Pleintisse. Pleintisse: f. The full scope, or whole compasse of.

Pleïon: m. Long straw softened in water, thereby to bee pliant, and fit for the binding of vines, &c.

Plejure: f. A pledging; suretiship; vndertaking, or answering for.  Homme de plejure. A Pledge, or Suretie; or a vassall who may be a Baile, Pledge, or Suretie for his Lord.

Plenier: m. ere: f. as Planier. Camelot plenier. Vnwater Chamlet.

Plenitude: f. Plenitude, fulnesse, wholeneße; soliditie, thicknesse, grossenesse.