nency. (See PLACID.)

_Lady Pliant_, second wife of Sir Paul. "She's handsome, and knows it;
is very silly, and thinks herself wise; has a choleric old husband" very
fond of her, but whom she rules with spirit, and snubs "afore folk." My
lady says, "If one has once sworn, it is most unchristian, inhuman, and
obscene that one should break it." Her conduct with Mr. Careless is most
reprehensible.--Congreve, _The Double Dealer_ (1694).

=Pliny= (_The German_), or "Modern Pliny," Konrad von Gesner of Zurich,
who wrote _Historia Animalium_, etc. (1516-1565).

=Pliny of the East=, Zakarija ibn Muhammed, surnamed "Kazw[^i]n[^i]," from
Kazw[^i]n, the place of his birth. He is so called by De Sacy (1200-1283).

=Plon-Plon=, Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Bonaparte, son of Jerome
Bonaparte by his second wife (the Princess Frederica Catherine of
W[:u]rtemberg). Plon-Plon is a euphonic corruption of _Craint-Plomb_
("fear-bullet"), a nickname given to the prince in the Crim[=e]an war
(1854-6).

=Plornish=, plasterer, Bleeding-heart Yard. He was a smooth-cheeked,
fresh-colored, sandy-whiskered man of 30. Long in the legs, yielding at
the knees, foolish in the face, flannel-jacketed and lime-whitened. He
generally chimed in conversation by echoing the words of the person
speaking. Thus, if Mrs. Plornish said to a visitor, "Miss Dorrit dursn't
let him know;" he would chime in, "Dursn't let him know." "Me and
Plornish says, 'Ho! Miss Dorrit;'" Plornish repeated, after his wife,
"Ho! Miss Dorrit." "Can you employ Miss Dorrit?" Plornish repeated as an
echo, "Employ Miss Dorrit?" (See PETER.)

_Mrs. Plornish_, the plasterer's wife. A young woman, somewhat
slatternly in herself and her belongings, and dragged by care and
poverty already into wrinkles. She generally began her sentences with,
"Well, not to deceive you." Thus: "Is Mr. Plornish at home?" "Well, sir,
not to deceive you, he's gone to look for a job." "Well, not to deceive
you, ma'am, I take it kindly of you."--C. Dickens, _Little Dorrit_
(1857).

=Plotting Parlor= (_The_). At Whittington, near Scarsdale, in Derbyshire,
is a farmhouse where the earl of Devonshire (Cavendish), the earl of
Danby (Osborne), and Baron Delamer (Booth), concerted the Revolution.
The room in which they met is called "The Plotting Parlor."

Where Scarsdale's cliffs the swelling pastures bound,
... there let the farmer hail
The sacred orchard which embowers his gate,
And