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Plain
King James Dictionary
or PLAIN, a. L. planus splendor. Gr. to wander.
1. Smooth even level flat without elevations and depressions not rough as plain ground or land a plain surface. In this sense, in philosophical writings, it is written plane.
2. Open clear.
Our troops beat an army in plain fight and open field.
3. Void of ornament simple as a plain dress.
Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.
4. Artless simple unlearned without disguise, cunning or affectation without refinement as men of the plainer sort.
Genesis 25 .
Plain but pious christians--
5. Artless simple unaffected unembellished as a plain tale or narration.
6. Honestly undisguised open frank sincere unreserved. I will tell you the plain truth.
Give me leave to be plain with you.
7. Mere bare as a plain knave or fool.
8. Evident to the understanding clear manifest not obscure as plain words or language a plain difference a plain argument.
It is plain in the history, that Esau was never subject to Jacob.
9. Not much varied by modulations as a plain song or tune.
10. Not high seasoned not rich not luxuriously dressed as a plain diet.
11. Not ornamented with figures as plain muslin.
12. Not dyed.
13. Not difficult not embarrassing as a plain case in law.
14. Easily seen or discovered not obscure or difficult to be found as a plain road or path. Our coarse is very plain. Psalms 27
A plain or plane figure, in geometry, is a uniform surface, from every point of whose perimeter right lines may be drawn to every other point in the same.
A plain figure, in geometry, is a surface in which, if any two points are taken,the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface.
A plain angle, is one contained under two lines or surfaces, in contradistinction to a solid angle.
PLAIN, adv. Not obscurely in a manner to be easily understood.
1. Distinctly articulately as, to speak plain. Mark 7 .
2. With simplicity artlessly bluntly.
PLAIN, n.
1. Level land usually, an open field with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities as all the plain of Jordan. Genesis 13
2. Field of battle.
PLAIN, To level to make plain or even on the surface.
PLAIN, L. plango. To lament or wail. Not used. See Complain.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Plain'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/plain.html.
