3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plant \Plant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Planted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Planting}.] [AS. plantian, L. plantare. See {Plant}, n.]
1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as to
plant maize.
2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a
vegetable with roots.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees.
--Deut. xvi.
21.
3. To furnish, or fit out with plants; as to plant a
garden, an orchard, or a forest.
4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of
It engenders choler, planteth anger. --Shak.
5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to
settle; to establish; as to plant a colony.
Planting of countries like planting of woods.
--Bacon.
6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of as
to plant Christianity among the heathen.
7. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as to
plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any
place to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's
fist in another's face.
8. To set up to install; to instate.
We will plant some other in the throne. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Planting \Plant"ing\, n.
1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for
propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of
plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations,
as of sugar, coffee, etc
2. That which is planted; a plantation.
Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord.
--Isa. lxi. 3.
3. (Arch.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a
foundation. [Eng.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
planting
n 1: the act of fixing firmly in place "she resented his
planting himself in the doorway"
2: putting seeds in the ground to grow; "the planting of corn
is hard work"
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