Plant
Definition of Plant
n. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. | | 3. | The sole of the foot. | | 4. | (Com.) 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. | | 5. | A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. | | 6. | (Zool.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. | v. t. | 1. | To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. | | 2. | To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. | | 3. | To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest. | | 4. | To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. | | 5. | To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. | | 6. | To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. | | 7. | 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. | | 8. | To set up; to install; to instate.We will plant some other in the throne. - Shak. | v. i. | 1. | To perform the act of planting. |
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