An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Pleuch-irnes, Plwyrnys, s. pl. The iron instruments belonging to a plough, S.
Wyntown.

Isl. plogiarn, the ploughshare.

PLY, s. Plight, condition, S.
Dunbar.

Fr. pli, habit, state.

PLY, s. A fold, a plait, S.

PLYCHT, s. Punishment.
Henrysone.

Belg. plicht, judicium.

To PLISH-PLASH, v. n. To emit the sound produced by successive shocks in any liquid body, S.
V. [Plash], v.
J. Nicol.

Plish-Plash, adv. To play plish-plash, to make a flashing sound, S.

PLISKIE, s. A trick, properly of a mischievous kind; though not necessarily including the idea of any evil design, S.
J. Nicol.