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Webster 1913 Edition

Plenty

Plen′ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Plenties
(#)
, in
Shak.
[OE.
plentee
,
plente
, OF.
plenté
, fr. L.
plenitas
, fr.
plenus
full. See
Full
,
Adj.
, and cf.
Complete
.]
Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness.
“Plenty of corn and wine.”
Gen. xxvii. 28.
“Promises Britain peace and plenty.”
Shak.
Houses of office stuffed with
plentee
.
Chaucer.
The teeming clouds Descend in gladsome
plenty
o’er the world.
Thomson.
Syn. – Abundance; exuberance. See
Abundance
.

Plen′ty

,
Adj.
Plentiful; abundant.
[Obs. or Colloq.]
If reasons were as
plenty
as blackberries.
Shakespeare
Those countries where shrubs are
plenty
.
Goldsmith.

Webster 1828 Edition

Plenty

PLEN'TY

,
Noun.
[from L. plenus.] Abundance; copiousness; full or adequate supply; as, we have a plenty of corn for bread; the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant.
1.
Fruitfulness; a poetic use.
The teeming clouds
Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.

PLEN'TY

,
Adj.
Plentiful; being in abundance.
Where water is plenty--
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.
In every country where liquors are plenty.
The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty.
A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty.
They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce.
When laborers are plenty, their wages will be low.
In the country, where wood is more plenty, they make their beams stronger.
[The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.]

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