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planting |
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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