Definition of ply

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Ply (v. i.) To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports..

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Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. i.) To answer to a reply.
Panoply :: Panoply (n.) Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories..
Enrich :: Enrich (v. t.) To supply with knowledge; to instruct; to store; -- said of the mind.
Durative :: Durative (a.) Continuing; not completed; implying duration.
Multiplication :: Multiplication (n.) The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation..
Supply :: Supply (n.) The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies..
Grime :: Grime (n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained..
Top-dress :: Top-dress (v. t.) To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land..
Reply :: Reply (v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
Fail :: Fail (v. i.) To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking; as, streams fail; crops fail..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Apply :: Apply (v. t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it..
Climacteric :: Climacteric (n.) A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight..
Reply :: Reply (v. t.) To return for an answer.
Applicatory :: Applicatory (a.) Having the property of applying; applicative; practical.
Exuberance :: Exuberance (n.) The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage..
Suffumigation :: Suffumigate (v. t.) To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part..
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