| Place |
n. |
The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third. |
| Place |
v. t. |
To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially. |
| Place |
v. t. |
To place-kick ( a goal). |
| Place |
n. |
Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. |
| Place |
n. |
A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. |
| Place |
n. |
A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. |
| Place |
n. |
Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. |
| Place |
n. |
Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). |
| Place |
n. |
A definite position or passage of a document. |
| Place |
n. |
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place. |
| Place |
n. |
Reception; effect;
implying the making room for. |
| Place |
n. |
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body;
usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. |
| Place |
n. |
To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. |
| Place |
n. |
To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed. |
| Place |
n. |
To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank. |
| Place |
n. |
To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. |
| Place |
n. |
To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. |
| Place-kick |
v. t. & i. |
To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick. |
| Place-proud |
a. |
Proud of rank or office. |
| Placebo |
n. |
The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. |
| Placebo |
n. |
A prescription intended to humor or satisfy. |
| Placed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Place |
| Placeful |
a. |
In the appointed place. |
| Placeless |
a. |
Having no place or office. |
| Placeman |
n. |
One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. |
| Placemen |
pl. |
of Placeman |
| Placement |
n. |
The act of placing, or the state of being placed. |
| Placement |
n. |
Position; place. |
| Placenta |
n. |
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. |
| Placenta |
n. |
The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached. |
| Placentae |
pl. |
of Placenta |
| Placental |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal. |
| Placental |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the Placentalia. |
| Placental |
n. |
One of the Placentalia. |
| Placentalia |
n. pl. |
A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials. |
| Placentary |
a. |
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. |
| Placentas |
pl. |
of Placenta |
| Placentation |
n. |
The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. |
| Placentation |
n. |
The mode in which the placenta is arranged or composed; as, axile placentation; parietal placentation. |
| Placentiferous |
a. |
Having or producing a placenta. |
| Placentiform |
a. |
Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle. |
| Placentious |
a. |
Pleasing; amiable. |
| Placer |
n. |
One who places or sets. |
| Placer |
n. |
A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. |
| Placet |
n. |
A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc. |
| Placet |
n. |
The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. |
