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Plain

Plain (plain)
v. i.(?)
Plain
[OE. playne, pleyne, fr. F. plaindre. See Plaint.]
  1. To lament; to bewail; to complain.
    [Archaic *** Poetic] Milton.

    We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.

Plain

Plain (plain)
v. t.
Plain
  1. To lament] to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.
    [Archaic *** Poetic] Sir J. Harrington.

Plain

Plain (plain)
a.
Plain
  1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.

    The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. Isa. xl. 4.

  2. Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

    Our troops beat an army in plain fight. Felton.

  3. Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.
    "'T is a plain case." Shak.
  4. Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
    (b)

Plain

Plain (plain)
adv.
Plain
  1. In a plain manner; plainly.
    "To speak short and pleyn." Chaucer. "To tell you plain." Shak.

Plain

Plain (plain)
n.
Plain
  1. 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.

    Descending fro the mountain into playn. Chaucer.

    Him the Ammonite
    Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain.     Milton.

  2. A field of battle.
    [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

    Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. Shak.

Plain

Plain (plain)
v. t.
Plain
  1. To plane or level] to make plain or even on the surface.
    [R.]

    We would rake Europe rather, plain the East. Wither.

  2. To make plain or manifest; to explain.

    What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech. Shak.













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