Definition of plain

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Plain (a.) Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies..

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Mythologize :: Mythologize (v. i.) To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths..
Perigenesis :: Perigenesis (n.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.
Homeliness :: Homeliness (n.) Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
Plain :: Plain (superl.) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin..
Glabriate :: Glabriate (v. t.) To make smooth, plain, or bare..
Lutestring :: Lutestring (n.) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon..
Bar :: Bar (n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
Plain :: Plain (v.) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
Decalogist :: Decalogist (n.) One who explains the decalogue.
Detort :: Detort (v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.
Replication :: Replication (n.) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea..
Meros :: Meros (n.) The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it..
Plain :: Plain (superl.) Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
Account :: Account (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty..
Apposition :: Apposition (n.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first..
Nonconstat :: Nonconstat (n.) It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.
Valley :: Valley (n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively..
Corral :: Corral (v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything..
Explain :: Explain (a.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible..
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