Plat
(Plat), n. [Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and Plot a piece of ground.] A small
piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even
ground.
This flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve.
Milton.
I keep smooth plat of fruitful ground.
Tennyson. Plat
(Plat), v. t. To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
Plat
(Plat), a. [F. plat. See Plate, n.] Plain; flat; level. [Obs.] Gower.
Plat
(Plat), adv.
1. Plainly; flatly; downright. [Obs.]
But, sir, ye lie, I tell you plat.
Rom. of R. 2. Flatly; smoothly; evenly. [Obs.] Drant.
Plat
(Plat), n.
1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.
2. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "To note all the islands, and to
set them down in plat." Hakluyt.
Platan
(Plat"an) n. [L. platanus. See Plane the tree.] [Written also platane.] The plane tree. Tennyson.
Platanist
(Plat"a*nist) n. [L. platanista a sort of fish, Gr. : cf. F. plataniste.] (Zoöl.) The soosoo.
Platanus
(||Plat"a*nus) n. [See Plane the tree.] (Bot.) A genus of trees; the plane tree.
Platband
(Plat"band`) n. [F. plate- bande; plat, plate, flat, level + bande a band.]
1. A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border.
2. (Arch.) (a) A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as
the face of an architrave. (b) A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.
Plate
(Plate) n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other
metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. . See Place, n.]
1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a
thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
2. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
Mangled . . . through plate and mail.
Milton. 3. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
4. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
5. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from
which food is eaten at table.
