List of Old English Words in the OED/PL

Old English	sp	English
Plant	n	From Old English; OED: plante ‘seedling’, plantian (verb), from Latin planta ‘sprout, cutting’ (later influenced by French plante) and plantare ‘plant, fix in a place’ 2. a living organism that grows in the ground and has no power to move. 3. wort, herb, grass or small plant; blossom.
Plant	vb	Put in the ground to grow.
Plant	phr	"Plant Out" - to take a young plant that is growing in a container, and put it in the ground to grow.
Plant-eater	n	Herbivores or insects that only eat vegetation, such as grasses, fruits, leaves, vegetables, roots and bulbs.
Planter	n	An owner of a plantation. 2. one who plants. 3. early settler or coloniser. 4. an agricultural implement for dropping seed in soil. 5. a decorative in which shrubs and flowers are planted, especially outdoors.
Planthood	n	The state or period of a plant.
Planting	n	That has been freshly planted.
Plant kingdom	n	A main classification of living organisms that include all plants.
Plantless	n	Having no plants.
Plant-like	n	Having the characteristics of a plant.
Plantroom	n	A room used to grow plants.
Plantsman	n	An expert on the identification and cultivation of plants.
Plantwise	adv	In a manner of a plant. 2. in terms of an industrial site.
Plash	n	A shallow piece of standing water. 2. pool made by a flood or heavy rain. 3. marshy pool, pool, puddle.
Plaster	n	Old English, denoting a bandage spread with a curative substance, from medieval Latin plastrum (shortening of Latin emplastrum, from Greek emplastron ‘daub, salve’), later reinforced by the Old French noun plastre. A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes; a healing paste. 2. New Zealand British - a small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster. 3. mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings; wonderboard. 4. a cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast.
PLaster	vb	To cover or coat something with plaster, or apply a plaster. 2. to hide or cover up, as if with plaster.
Plaster	phr	"Plaster One's Hair Down" - make hair lie flat by coating it with hair cream.
Plaster	phr	"Plaster Over" - cover seal with plaster.
Plaster-board	n	A board made of a slab of gyps mixed with fibres of or plaster between sheets of of fibrous paper, used as wallboard or as backing finish on walls.
Plastered	adj	Rendered with plaster, or plasterboard. 2. (slang) - drunk.
Plasterless	adj	Without plaster (the building material). 2. unplastered.
Plaster-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of plaster (the material).
Plaster-stone	n	Calcined gypsum, or sulphate of lime, which when mixed with water sets quickly and is used for castes, mouldings, etc.
Plasterwork	n	Architectural work wrought in plaster.
Plastery	adj	Like plasrer, viscid.
Plat	n	A flat blow, slap, smack.
Plat	vb	To strike. 2. to hurry, rush, to move noisily. 3. to crash, bounce, strike.
Play	n	Exercise in a brisk or free movement or action. 2. of living things: active bodily exercise, as in fencing, dancing, leaping, swimming. 3. rapid movement. 4. sport
Play	v	Give oneself amusement by running around, acting stories, etc. as children do. 2. to take part in sport, amusement with cards. 3. hit balls, play sport, do something playfully. 4. make music, sing, play musical instruments, dance.
Play	phr	"As Good as a Play" - intensely amusing.
Play	phr	"Be Child's Play" - be easy or to require elementary skills and knowledge.
Play	phr	"Be in Full Play" - be fully operational.
Play	phr	"Bring Into Play" - make us of.
Play	phr	"Don't Play Games with Me" - do not insult my intelligence by that kind of conduct.
Play	phr	"In Play" - in football, within the boundary lines of the field of play.
Play	phr	"Make a Play for" - attempt to get something or someone.
Play	phr	"Make Play of/with" - emphasize.
Play	phr	"Play a Deep Game" - to show cunning.
Play	phr	"Play a Fish" - to exhaust a hooked fish by allowing it to pull against the line.
Play	phr	"Play a Lone Hand" - manage one's life, plan and carry out a project or undertaking, often by one's own choice, without the co-operation or support of others
Play	phr	"Play Along With" - act in accordance (with). 2. go along with; co-operate with.
Play	phr	"Play At" - engage or commit in casually or in a halfheartedly. 2. pretend for fun to be somebody or do something, as (cops and robbers).
Play	phr	"Play Away" - to be sexually unfaithful out of one's home. 2. informal (of a married person) have a love affair; away-play.
Play	phr	"Play Back" - run the recording device through again, so that the recorded material on it can be heard or seen. 2. in sport, such as tennis, return the ball.
Play	phr	"Play by Play" - dealing with each play consecutively.
Play	phr	"Play by the Book" - act , or play strictly, according to the rules.
Play	phr	"Play Cat and Mouse With" - tease somebody (by keeping him/her uninformed)
Play	phr	"Play Dead" - remain motionless and preten to be dead.
Play	phr	"Play Down (Something)" - seek to have less emphasis or attention given to something. 2. minimize or reduce the importance of.
Play	phr	"Play Ducks and Drakes" - not to treat a matter seriously.
Play	phr	"Play Dumb" - pretend to be dumb. 2. idiomatic: pretend to be slow-witted or lacking in self knowledge, usually in order to avoid responsibility or to gain some advantage.
Play	phr	"Played Out" - performed until finished. 2. used up, exhausted; originally employed by gamblers.
Play	phr	"Play Fair With(with somebody)" - pay a game according to the rules and established procedure. 2. (fair play) - eleven-handedness; fairness in a competitive activity.
Play	phr	"Play for Love of " - pursue an interest or hobbies for the enjoyment alone.
Play	phr	"Play for Time" - try to delay defeat or an embarrassing admission etc, by keeping one's opponent or questioner at a distance.
Play	phr	"Play Hard to Get" - pretend to have less interest that one's feels towards somebody of the opposite sex. 2. try to set a high value on oneself by not readily accepting any/a proposal, invitation etc.
Play	phr	"Play High" - gamble for high stakes.
Play	phr	"Play Into Somebody's Hands" - act to somebody advantage, usually by doing something hoped for planned for by that person.
Play	phr	"Play it by Ear" - develop one's strategy to always fit in with circumstances as they change from time to time.
Play	phr	"Play it Cool" - not get angry, excited, enthusiastic, perturbed, etc.
Play	phr	"Play Like a Fiddle" - to manipulate a person very skilfully as to achieve selfish-benefits.
Play	phr	"Play Merry Hell" - make worse, or severely damage, disrupt.
Play	phr	"Play Off" - Of teams or competitors that have secured the same number of points, won the same number of matches, in a championship, play or oppose one another in the deciding match.
Play	phr	"Play off Against" - oppose one person to another, for one's own advantage.
Play	phr	"Play On" - continue to play, resume play.
Play	phr	"Play One Against the Other" - gain an advantage by making two other people compete.
Play	phr	"Play On Words" - make use of words and expressions similar form but with different meanings for humorous effect. 2. a pun, a joke that relies on double meaning.
Play	phr	"Play Out" - enact, perform.
Play	phr	"Played Out" - having lost one's vitality, talent, etc. 2. exhausted, stale, hackneyed, out of date.
Play	phr	"Play Right Into Someone's Hands" - act as to give a person an unintended advantage.
Play	phr	"Play Somebody's Game" - willing, or unwilling or unknowingly, conform with somebody's policy, methods, aims and promote his/her interests rather than one's owns.
Play	phr	"Play Some Up" - to be a nuisance to them, to haras and annoy. 2. to behave in a troublesome fashion, as schoolchildren are wont 'to play up' certain of their teachers.
Play	phr	"Play the Devil with" - seriously disturb or upset somebody or something. 2. seriously reproach somebody.
Play	phr	"Play the Field" - distribute one's attentions among several people (usually in a romantic way).
Play	phr	"Play the Game" - do what is fair, right, honorable. 2. do what is expected of one as a loyal ally, supporter or as a honorable opponent in competition.
Play	phr	"Play the Giddy Goat" - act the fool.
Play	phr	"Play the New Year in" - play to celebrate and announce the New Year.
Play	phr	"Play the Old Year out" - play to celebrate the end of the old year.
Play	phr	"Play the Same Game" - deliberately(and especially as a means of gaining one's own ends) either (pretend to)or seemingly co-operate with somebody or try to match or outdo him/ her by using methods similar to his?hers.
Play	phr	"Play Things Right" - handle a situation, carry out what one's means to do, with the necessary skill or cunning to be successful.
Play	phr	"Play to the Gods" - Degrading one’s vocation ad captandum vulgus. The gods, in theatrical phrase, are the spectators in the uppermost gallery, the ignobile vulgus. The ceiling of Drury Lane theatre was at one time painted in imitation of the sky, with Cupids and other deities here and there represented. As the gallery referred to was near the ceiling, the occupants were called the gods. In French this gallery is nick-named paradis.
Play	phr	"Play Up" - (slang) act with vigour and enthusiasm. 2. be a nuisance, annoy ; deliberately antagonize, torment physically hurt. 3. emphasize or over stress one's role contribution, role.
Play	phr	"Play Upon" - exploit the fears, weakness of somebody, develop an advantage(usually to harm somebody).
Play	phr	"Play Up To" - flatter, encourage to win an advantage for oneself in employment, love, etc. 2. to seek to ingratiate oneself with a person by flattery.
Play	phr	"Play With" - handle, treat in a light, casual and irresponsible way. 2. amuse oneself by handling; handle in a casual, absent-minded way; toy with. 3. consider, but not very seriously; dally with.
Play	phr	"Play With Fire" - court danger; do things that might lead to trouble. 2. invite trouble through one's foolish conduct.
Play	phr	"This May be Play to You, It is Death to Us" - the allusion is to Aesop's fable of the boys throwing stones at some frogs.
Play	phr	"Two Can Play that Game" - I can also be as deceitful, unpleasant as you.
Play	phr	"What He's Playing At" - (a rhetorical question) expression of anger at somebody who is behaving foolishly and/or dangerously.
Play	phr	"When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play" - in the absence of supervision discipline will be lax.
Play-back	n	The reproduction of sound, pictures or both from disc, tape or film recording.
Playback singer	n	A singer who records songs to be mimed in a film by actors.
Playbook	n	A book containing the script of a play. 2. a book of plays.
Play-by-play	adj	Dealing with each play consecutively.
Playday	n	A name given to play or diversion; a holiday.
Playdough	n	Children's modelling clay.
Play-down	vb	To treat as of little or unimportant, minimize
Player	n	One who plays any game or sport. 2. (theater) An actor in a dramatic play. 3. (music) One who plays on a musical instrument. 4. (gaming, video games) a gamer; a gamester. 5. a gambler. 6. (historical) a mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument. 7. (electronics) An electronic device or software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player. 8. one who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. 9. a significant participant. 10. (informal) 11. a person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship
Playerless	adj	Without a player, as a playerless musical instrument.
Playership	n	The condition or state of being a player.
Playfeer	n	Companion, comrade, friend, playmate; playfere.
Playfellow	n	An associate in games; a playmate
Playfield	n	An extensive piece of ground, especially, one part of a school.
Playfight	n	A pretend or recreational fight.
Play-friend	n	A playmate
Playful	adj	Full of play, ready for play. 2. not serious, acting or done in humour. 2. fond of play, fun; lively.
Playfully	adv	In a playfull manner.
Playfulness	n	Something done with fulsomeness, merrily or jocose.
Playgame	n	The play of children.
Playgoer	n	One who likes the Theatre and frequently goes.
Playground	n	A ground used for playing games; space set aside for sport and recreation. 2. an oval; sport's field, park
Playhouse	n	A theatre. 2. a small house in which children play.
Playing	n	An occasion on which something, such as a song show, is played.
Playland	n	An area of free recreation.
Playleader	n	A person who leads or assists with organized children's play.
Playmaker	n	a player in a sport with goals, such as a guard in basketball, who initiates offensive plays. 2. someone with exceptional ability in any particular area, and is able to perform at a high level with relative ease.
Playmaking	n	The act of a player in a sport with goals, such as a guard in basketball, who initiates offensive plays. 2. the act of someone with exceptional ability in any particular area, and is able to perform at a high level with relative ease.
Playock	n	A toy or plaything; 'ock' a diminutive, such as in 'hillock'.
Play-off	n	To oppose one another. 2. to play another game to decide a tie.
Playout	n	In broadcasting, playout is a term for the transmission of radio or TV channels from the broadcaster into broadcast networks that delivers the content to the audience.
Playpen	n	A portable wooden enclosure which can be set up in a room, for small children to play in.
Playroom	n	A room allocated as a children's play area, in which noisy and boisterous activities are tolerated.
Playsome	adj	Playful, wanton, sportive, playsome.
Playsomely	adv	In a playful, sportive, noisy, boisterous manner.
Play-someness	n	The quality of being playsome.
Playsong	n	A children's song involving play activities, such as clapping or dancing; a playsong.
Playstow	n	Playground; gymnasium, amphitheater. 2. a place or stow for playing; a playstow; a wrestling-ring.
Plaything	n	Something for playing with. 2. a toy.
Playthrough	n	The act of playing a game from start to finish, such as a video.
Playtime	n	A time for play. 2. recreation; a recreational break between school periods.
Play-up	vb	To misbehave, annoy,
Play-upon-words	phr	A pun. 2. words used with a double meaning.
Playwork	n	The work of creating and maintaining spaces foe children to play; playwork.
Playwright	n	A writer of plays; a dramatist. 2. a person who writes plays is a playwright not a playwrite.
Playwrite	vb	To write plays or drama; to playwrite.
Playwriting	n	The act of writing plays; a dramatist.
Plight	n	In OE: danger, risk, peril. 2. sin, offence, guilt, blame. 3. pledge, solemn promise, an assurance, pledge. undertaking of risk. 4. a state or condition usually of a distressing kind. 5. a state of perplexity; a predicament.
Plight	vb	Give undertaking to be truth to one's pledge of faith, marriage, betroth, word of honor, honesty.
Plight	phr	"Plight Oneself" - a couple's promise to marry one another.
Plight	phr	"Plight One's Troth" - agree to marry ((from a response in the Anglican marriage ceremony).
Plight	phr	"Plight One's Word." - to give or pledge one's word to promise or pledge support.
Plighter	n	One who or that which plights, engages or pledges to do something.
Plightful	adj	Full of danger; risky; perilous. 2. full of plight; plighted, pledged, devoted.
Plightfully	adv	In a plightful manner. 2. indicating plight, dire, grim, grievous situation.
Plighting	n	Pledging, risking,
Plightless	adj	Blameless
Plightly	adv	Indicating plight, in a dire, grim, grievous manner.
Plight-ring	n	An engagement ring.
Plitch	vb	To pluck, pull. 2. to carp, criticise, pull apart
Plitching	n	Carping, criticising
Plot	n	A small piece land or area of ground.
Plotful	adj	Abounding plots of land.
Plough	n	O.E : a measure of land; O.N: an implement of plowing or apparatus (usu. drawn by horse, oxen or driven by mechanical power) for cutting through, turning over, or breaking up the soil. 2. any implement that works like a plow, a snow plough. 3, ploughed land; a measure of plowed lands
Plough	vb	To turn a field or pasture over using a plough. 2. go through something in a strong, but plodding manner or way. 3. to furrow or make ridges. 4. to plow through water or waves.
Plough	phr	"Plough a Lonely Furrow" - carry out one's own work, or main activities alone.
Plough	phr	"Plough Back" - reinvest profits in a business.
Plough	phr	"Plough In" - cover, bury with earth from the plough.
Plough	phr	"Plough New Ground" - to laboriously engage in an untried activity.
Plough	phr	"Plough On" - in methodically and painstakingly continue with an activity.
Plough	phr	"Plough Out of" - withdraw, draw out; draw out of.
Plough	phr	"Plough the Alms" - in medieval England , a payment of one penny for each plow team in the parish, paid to the priest a fortnight after Easter.
Plough	phr	"Plough the Sands" - to undertake a useless undertaking.
Plough	phr	"Plough Through" - read something with difficulty.
Plough	phr	"Plough Under" - to put from sight by ploughing up and covering with soil. 2. obliterate
Plough	phr	"Plough Up" - uncover, dig up, with a the plough.
Plough	phr	"Plough With Another's Heifer" - to use information obtained by other means, eg. through a treacherous friend (see: Judges Ch 16. v 18.
Plough	phr	"Put One's Hand to the Plough" - voluntarily undertake some task. 2. to commence operations in earnest. Only by by keeping one's eyes on the object ahead as it is possible to plough straight.
Plough	phr	"Put the Plough before the Oxen" - another way of saying 'to put the cart before the house'
Plough	phr	"Speed the Plough!" - let us get on with this as fast as possible!
Plough	phr	"To Be Ploughed" - to fail to pass an examination.
Plough alms	phr	In medieval England, a payment of one penny for each plough team in the parish, paid to the priest a fortnight after Easter.
Plough-beam	n	The horizontal projecting part of a plow frame, whose front end is attached to the swingletree.
Plough-bote	n	In OE. Law: the wood or timber which the tenant had a right to cut for making and repairing ploughs and other agricultural implements.
Ploughed	adj	Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows, usually for growing crops. 2. well trodden or well-researched; previously explored.
Plough-horse	n	A horse that draws or pulls a plow.
Ploughing	n	Th act of ploughing a field.
Ploughland	n	Land that is ploughed for growing crops; arable land. 2. a measure of land used in the northern and eastern counties of England after the Norman conquest, based on the area able to be ploughed in a year by a team of eight oxen.
Plough-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a plough.
Ploughman	n	One who plows, a cultivator, hence a rustic.
Plough Monday	n	The first Monday after Epiphany, The Twevlth Night when ploughing should begin.
Plough Sunday	n	Traditional English celebration of the beginning of the agricultural year that has seen some revival over recent years.
Plough-swain	n	Ploughman
Ploughshare	n	The blade of a plough; also 'plowshare.
Ploughwise	adv	Back and forth in alternate rows in the manner of a plough.
Ploughwright	n	A workman who makes and repairs ploughs.
Plow	n	See Plough. 2. The group of seven stars commonly called "Charles's Wain" or the "Dipper" or the "Big Dipper" (Ursa Major).
Plow-bote	n	See ploughbote
Pluck	n	Courage, strength of action in a crisis: not giving away to fear. 2. confidence and spirit in the face of danger 3. the heart, liver, windpipe, lungs of animal or man.
Pluck	vb	To pull off or out. 2. to take feathers off a bird; pull flowers off a plant. 3. to pull out hair, feathers, or remove the inners of a chicken, turkey or other cooking bird. 4. to cause a musical instrument to sound by pulling its strings, harp, guitar etc. 5. to give a sudden pull or tug.
Pluck	phr	"He's a Plucked'un" - he's a plucky chap; there's no frightening him.
Plack	phr	"I'll Pluck His Goose for Him" - I will lower his pride; make him eat humble pie.
Pluck	phr	"Pluck Up" - to call up or rouse one courage in the face of danger or crisis.
Plucked	adj	Of something with feathers, hair, etc having had these items removed by plucking. 2. of the strings of an instrument- played by plucking. 3. having courage and spirit, plucky.
Plucikily	adv	In a plucky manner.
Pluckiness	n	The character of being plucky.
Plucking	n	The act of taking feathers off a bird; or pulling flowers off a plant. 2. the act of causing a musical instrument to sound by pulling its strings, harp, guitar etc. 3. the act of giving a sudden pull or tug on something, as the tug of a small child onits mother's dress. 4. a process of glacial erosion whereby, during the passage of a valley glacier or other ice body, ice forming in cracks and fissures drags out material from a rock face.
Pluckless	adj	Without pluck; timid, weak; faint-hearted.
Plucky	adj	Having resolute courage; spirited; courageous.
Plum	n	A smooth skinned edible stone fruit of various trees of the genus, Prunus.
Plum	phr	"The Plum: - the best in the collection. 2. obsolete term for a large sum of money, or for its possession. Now used figuraively meaning the very best part of anything; te prize, the 'pick of the basket', a windfall