To put or set in the ground for growth, as seed, young shoots, cuttings, vegetables with roots, etc.: as, to plant potatoes; to plant trees.
To lay out and prepare by putting or setting seed, etc., in the ground; furnish with plants: as, to plant a garden or an orchard.
To implant; sow the seeds or germs of; engender.
To put; place; set; especially, to post or place firmly in position; fix; set up: as, he planted himself in front of me; to plant a standard on the enemy's battlements.
To establish or set up for the first time; introduce and establish: as, to plant Christianity among the heathen; to plant a colony.
To furnish; provide with something that is set in position or in order.
To introduce and establish new settlers in; settle; colonize.
To place or locate as colonists or settlers.
To hide; conceal; place in concealment, as plunder or swag.
In fish-culture, to deposit (eggs or fry) in a river, lake, or pond.
To bed (oysters); bed down, transplant, or sow (young or small oysters).
To put, as gold or the like, in the ground, or in a pretended mine, where it can be easily found, for the purpose of affecting the price of the land; also, to treat, as land, in this way; “salt.”
To sow seed or set shoots, etc., in the soil, that they may grow.
To settle down; locate as settlers or colonists; take up abode as a new inhabitant, or as a settler in a new country or locality; settle.
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The sole of the foot, or the foot itself. See planta.
In chess, to play (a piece) to a square whence it cannot easily be dislodged.
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A shoot or slip recently sprouted from seed, or rooted as a cutting or layer; especially. such a slip ready for transplanting, as one of the cabbage-plants, tomato-plants, etc., of the market.
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A sapling; hence, a stick or staff; a cudgel.
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An herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with trees.
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An individual living being with a material organism, not animal in its nature; a member of the vegetable kingdom; a vegetable, in the widest sense
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The fixtures, machinery, tools, apparatus, appliances, etc., necessary to carry on any trade or mechanical business, or any mechanical operation or process.