3. (Anat.)
Defn: The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See
Testudinata.
4. A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.
-PLASTY -plas"ty. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: A combining form denoting the act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.
PLAT
Plat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Platted; p. pr. & vb. n. Platting.] Etym:
[See Plait.]
Defn: To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. "They had platted a crown of thorns." Matt. xxvii. 29.
PLAT
Plat, n.
Defn: Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
Her hair, nor loose, nor tied in formal plat. Shak.
PLAT
Plat, n. Etym: [Cf. Plat flat, which perh. caused this spelling, and
Plot a piece of ground.]