*plot*

n. [ Gr. &unr_; simple + &unr_; a cutting. ] (Surg.) Simple incision. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Applotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Applotting. ] [ Pref. ad- + plot. ] To divide into plots or parts; to apportion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Apportionment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. complot, prob. for comploit, fr.L. complicitum, prop. p. p. of complicare, but equiv. to complicatio complication, entangling. See Complicate, and cf. Plot. ] A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy. [ 1913 Webster ]

I know their complot is to have my life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Complotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Complotting. ] [ Cf. F. comploter, fr. complot. ] To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design. [ 1913 Webster ]

We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scene of miseries to the Trojans. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plotting together. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One joined in a plot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Counterplotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Counterplotting. ] To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quinsey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plot or artifice opposed to another. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cell biol.) the fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis, when the paired chromosomes being to separate. This stage follows the pachytene. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A plot or space covered with grass; a lawn. “Here on this grassplot.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, by his officious interference, mars or frustrates a design or plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. “Plotting an unprofitable crime.” Dryden. “Plotting now the fall of others.” Milton [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. plot; cf. Goth. plats a patch. Cf. Plat a piece of ground. ] 1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plantation laid out. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plotted p. pr. & vb. n. Plotting. ] To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate. [ 1913 Webster ]

This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. from complot. ] 1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have overheard a plot of death. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue. [ Obs. ] “A man of much plot.” Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A plan; a purpose. “No other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination; contrivance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wicked plotteth against the just. Ps. xxxvii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prince did plot to be secretly gone. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding with plots. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Secure against harm by plots. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Splash. ] A spot; a stain; a daub. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered or marked with splotches. [ 1913 Webster ]