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Webster 1913 Edition

Plash

Plash

,
Noun.
[OD.
plasch
. See
Plash
,
Verb.
]
1.
A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
Bacon.
“These shallow plashes.”
Barrow.
2.
A dash of water; a splash.

Plash

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Plashed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Plashing
.]
[Cf. D.
plassen
, G.
platschen
. Cf.
Splash
.]
To dabble in water; to splash.
“Plashing among bedded pebbles.”
Keats.
Far below him
plashed
the waters.
Longfellow.

Plash

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To splash, as water.
2.
To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter;
as, to
plash
a wall in imitation of granite
.

Plash

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Plashed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Plashing
.]
[OF.
plaissier
,
plessier
, to bend. Cf.
Pleach
.]
To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of;
as, to
plash
a hedge
.
Evelyn.

Plash

,
Noun.
The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

Webster 1828 Edition

Plash

PLASH

,
Noun.
[Gr. superabundant moisture.]
1.
A small collection of standing water; a puddle.
2.
The branch of a tree partly cut or lopped and bound to other branches.

PLASH

,
Verb.
I.
To dabble in water; usually splash.

PLASH

,
Verb.
T.
[L. plico, to fold.] To interweave branches; as, to plash a hedge or quicksets. [In New England, to splice.]

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