[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plain \plain\, v. i. oe. playne, pleyne, fr. f. plaindre. see
   plaint.
   to lament; to bewail; to complain. archaic  poetic
   --milton.
   1913 webster

         we with piteous heart unto you pleyne.   --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
plaint 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plain \plain\, v. t.
   to lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. archaic 
   poetic --sir j. harrington.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plain \plain\, a. compar. plainer; superl. plainest. f.,
   level, flat, fr. l. planus, perhaps akin to e. floor. cf.
   llano, piano, plan, plane level, a level surface.
   1. without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth;
      even. see plane.
      1913 webster

            the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
            places plain.                         --isa. xl. 4.
      1913 webster

   2. open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
      1913 webster

            our troops beat an army in plain fight. --felton.
      1913 webster

   3. not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious;
      clear; unmistakable. "'t is a plain case." --shak.
      1913 webster

   4.
      a void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without
          conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
      b not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show
          or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common. "plain
          yet pious christians." --hammond. "the plain people."
          --a. lincoln.
      c free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere;
          artless; honest; frank. "an honest mind, and plain."
          --shak.
      d not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain
          food.
      e without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain
          woman.
      f not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.
      g not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.
          1913 webster

   plain battle, open battle; pitched battle. obs.
      --chaucer.

   plain chant mus. same as plain song, below.

   plain chart naut., a chart laid down on mercator's
      projection.

   plain dealer.
      a one who practices plain dealing.
      b a simpleton. obs. --shak.

   plain dealing. see under dealing.

   plain molding join., molding of which the surfaces are
      plain figures.

   plain sewing, sewing of seams by simple and common
      stitches, in distinct from fancy work, embroidery, etc.;
      -- distinguished also from designing and fitting garments.
      

   plain song.
      a the gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed
          melody of the roman catholic service, sung in unison,
          in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond
          the compass of an octave.
      b a simple melody.

   plain speaking, plainness or bluntness of speech.
      1913 webster

   syn: level; flat; smooth; open; artless; unaffected;
        undisguised; frank; sincere; honest; candid; ingenuous;
        unembellished; downright; blunt; clear; simple;
        distinct; manifest; obvious; apparent. see manifest.
        1913 webster
see also:
plainer plainest llano piano plan plane 
plain battle plain chant plain song plain chart plain dealer 
plain dealing dealing plain molding plain sewing canto fermo 
plain speaking manifest 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plain \plain\, v. t. imp.  p. p. plained; p. pr.  vb. n.
   plaining. cf. plane, v.
   1. to plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
      r.
      1913 webster

            we would rake europe rather, plain the east.
                                                  --wither.
      1913 webster

   2. to make plain or manifest; to explain.
      1913 webster

            what's dumb in show, i'll plain in speech. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
plained plaining plane 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plain \plain\, adv.
   in a plain manner; plainly. "to speak short and pleyn."
   --chaucer. "to tell you plain." --shak.
   1913 webster

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

plain \plain\, n. cf. of. plaigne, f. plaine. see plain, a.
   1. level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of
      land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by
      inequalities; as, the plain of jordan; the american
      plains, or prairies.
      1913 webster

            descending fro the mountain into playn. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            him the ammonite
            worshiped in rabba and her watery plain. --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. a field of battle. obs. --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

            lead forth my soldiers to the plain.  --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
plain 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

plain
     adj 1: clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the
            effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees
            the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest
            disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning
            plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in
            plain view" syn: apparent, evident, manifest, patent
     2: not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to
        the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain
        rectangular brick building" ant: fancy
     3: lacking patterns especially in color syn: unpatterned
        ant: patterned
     4: not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer
        wine"; "not an unmixed blessing" syn: sheer, unmingled,
         unmixed
     5: free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and
        unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people
        and children" syn: unvarnished
     6: lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair
        style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional
        architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" syn:
        unembellished, unornamented
     7: lacking stylistic embellishment; "a literal description";
        "wrote good but plain prose"; "a plain unadorned account
        of the coronation"; "a forthright unembellished style"
        syn: literal, unembellished
     8: comprehensible to the general public; "written for the
        popular press in plain nontechnical language" syn: popular
     9: lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child";
        "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain
        girl with a freckled face" syn: homely
     n 1: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
          woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields
          of his youth" syn: field, champaign
     2: a basic knitting stitch syn: knit, knit stitch, plain
        stitch
     adv : unmistakably `plain' is often used informally for
           `plainly'; "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was
           in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly
           too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all
           patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living
           here for some time"; "i thought he owned the property,
           but apparently not"; "you are plainly wrong"; "he is
           plain stubborn" syn: obviously, evidently, manifestly,
            patently, apparently, plainly
     v : express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness;
         "my mother complains all day"; "she has a lot to kick
         about" syn: complain, kick, sound off, quetch, kvetch
         ant: cheer
see also:
apparent evident manifest patent fancy unpatterned 
patterned sheer unmingled unmixed unvarnished 
unembellished unornamented literal popular homely 
field champaign knit knit stitch plain stitch 
obviously evidently manifestly patently apparently 
plainly complain kick sound off quetch 
kvetch cheer 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

508 moby thesaurus words for "plain":
   attic, bohemian, ciceronian, lebensraum, mickey mouse, spartan,
   abrupt, absolute, absolutely, affable, agricultural region,
   air space, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading,
   apparent, arable land, articulate, artless, ascetic, audible,
   austere, back country, bald, bare, baseborn, basic, beautiless,
   below the salt, billiard table, black belt, blemished, blotted,
   bluff, blunt, born, born yesterday, bowling green, broad,
   broad-based, brusque, cacophonic, cacophonous, campestral,
   campestrian, campo, candid, casual, champaign, chaste, cheerful,
   childlike, citrus belt, classic, classical, clean, clean-cut,
   clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear space, clear-cut,
   clearance, clearing, cockney, coherent, colorless, comfortable,
   common, commonplace, comprehensive, confiding, congenital,
   connected, consistent, conspicuous, consummate, contrastive,
   cordial, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, cozy, crisp,
   crystal-clear, crystalline, cushy, dead flat, dead level,
   deep-dyed, defaced, defined, definite, degage, desert, direct,
   discernible, discreet, disfigured, distant prospect, distinct,
   distinctive, down, downright, drab, dry, dull, dust bowl,
   dyed-in-the-wool, dysphemistic, dysphemized, earth, easy,
   easy as pie, easygoing, effortless, egregious, elegant, elementary,
   empty view, esplanade, essential, even, everyday, evident,
   exhaustive, explicit, express, facile, familiar, farm belt,
   farm country, farmland, featureless, finished, flat, flatland,
   flattened, floor, flush, folksy, forthright, frank, frankhearted,
   free, free and easy, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued,
   friendly, fruit belt, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, genuine,
   glade, glaring, glib, graceful, gracile, gracious, graphic,
   grass roots, grassland, grazing region, ground, guileless, haymish,
   hearable, heart-to-heart, heath, hi-fi, high-fidelity, highlands,
   homaloid, homaloidal, homelike, homely, homespun, homey, homish,
   homogeneous, honest, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault,
   horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane,
   horizontal projection, household, humble, humble-looking,
   humble-visaged, humblest, humdrum, ill-favored, in focus,
   indisputable, indivisible, indubitable, inelegant, informal,
   ingenu, ingenuous, inglorious, innocent, innocuous, insipid,
   intelligible, intensive, intimate, irreducible, irregular,
   irretrievably, irrevocably, lean, least, ledge, legible, level,
   level line, level plane, light, limpid, living space, llano, loose,
   loud and clear, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowest, lowlands, lowliest,
   lowly, lucid, luminous, manifest, marred, matter-of-fact, mead,
   meadows and pastures, mean, mean sea level, mere, modest,
   monolithic, moor, moorland, moors, mundane, muted, naive, natural,
   neat, nonclerical, nondescript, nothing to it, noticeable,
   observable, obvious, of a piece, offhand, offhanded, omnibus,
   omnipresent, open, open country, open space, open-and-shut,
   openhearted, ordinary, out-and-out, outback, outright, outspoken,
   painless, palpable, pampas, parterre, pasture, patent, peaceful,
   pedestrian, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perfect, perfectly,
   perspicuous, pervasive, plain as day, plain-speaking, plain-spoken,
   plains, plane, plateau, platform, plebeian, plumb, poetryless,
   polished, poor, prairie, prairies, primal, primary, prominent,
   pronounced, prosaic, prose, prosing, prosy, province, provinces,
   pure, pure and simple, quite, radical, refined, regular, relaxed,
   restrained, right, rolled, round, rude, rural district, rustic,
   rustic region, savanna, sea level, sea of grass, seeable,
   self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, severe,
   shabby-genteel, sheer, short, short on looks, simon-pure, simple,
   simple as abc, simple-speaking, simplehearted, simpleminded,
   sincere, single, single-hearted, single-minded, small, smooth,
   smoothed out, smoothened, snug, sober, sociable, soft, spare,
   spartan, spoiled, squashed, squashed flat, staring, stark, steppe,
   steppes, straight, straight-out, straightforward, sweeping, table,
   tabloid, tabular, tangible, tasteful, teachable, terrace, terrain,
   territory, terse, the country, the soil, the sticks, third-estate,
   thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, tiresome, to be seen,
   tobacco belt, total, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, trim,
   trodden, trodden flat, trustful, trusting, tundra, ubiquitous,
   uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unadorned,
   unadulterated, unaesthetic, unaffected, unalluring, unambiguous,
   unassuming, unattractive, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, unburdensome,
   unceremonious, unchecked, uncluttered, uncomely, uncomplicated,
   unconcealed, unconditional, unconfused, unconstrained,
   unconventional, undecorated, understandable, undifferenced,
   undifferentiated, undiluted, undisguised, undissembled,
   undissembling, undistinguished, unelaborate, unembellished,
   unenhanced, unequivocal, unfeigned, ungarnished, ungenteel,
   unguarded, unhandsome, unidealistic, uniform, unimaginative,
   unimpassioned, unimportant, universal, univocal, unlabored,
   unlovely, unluxurious, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed,
   unofficial, unornamented, unostentatious, unpleasing, unpoetic,
   unpoetical, unpretending, unpretentious, unpretty, unqualified,
   unrelievedly, unremarkable, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted,
   unromantic, unsightly, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspicious,
   unvarnished, unwary, uplands, utter, vapid, veld, veldt, veritable,
   visible, vivid, vulgar, water level, well-defined, well-marked,
   well-pronounced, well-resolved, wheat belt, wholesale,
   wide-open spaces, wilderness, wold, woodland, woods and fields,
   workaday, workday, yokeldom

[9] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

plain
     
        programming language for interaction.  pascal-like, with
        extensions for database, string handling, exceptions and
        pattern matching.  "revised report on the programming language
        plain", a. wasserman, sigplan notices 65:59-80 may 1981.
     
     

[10] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

plain
   1. heb. 'abel judg. 11:33, a "grassy plain" or "meadow."
   instead of "plains of the vineyards," as in the authorized
   version, the revised version has "abel-cheramim" q.v., comp.
   judg. 11:22; 2 chr. 16:4.
   
     2. heb. 'elon gen. 12:6; 13:18; 14:13; 18:1; deut. 11:30;
   judg. 9:6, more correctly "oak," as in the revised version;
   margin, "terebinth."
   
     3. heb. bik'ah gen. 11:2; neh. 6:2; ezek. 3:23; dan. 3:1,
   properly a valley, as rendered in isa. 40:4, a broad plain
   between mountains. in amos 1:5 the margin of authorized version
   has "bikathaven."
   
     4. heb. kikar, "the circle," used only of the ghor, or the
   low ground along the jordan gen. 13:10-12; 19:17, 25, 28, 29;
   deut. 34:3; 2 sam. 18:23; 1 kings 7:46; 2 chr. 4:17; neh. 3:22;
   12:28, the floor of the valley through which it flows. this
   name is applied to the jordan valley as far north as succoth.
   
     5. heb. mishor, "level ground," smooth, grassy table-land
   deut. 3:10; 4:43; josh. 13:9, 16, 17, 21; 20:8; jer. 48:21, an
   expanse of rolling downs without rock or stone. in these
   passages, with the article prefixed, it denotes the plain in the
   tribe of reuben. in 2 chr. 26:10 the plain of judah is meant.
   jerusalem is called "the rock of the plain" in jer. 21:13,
   because the hills on which it is built rise high above the
   plain.
   
     6. heb. 'arabah, the valley from the sea of galilee
   southward to the dead sea the "sea of the plain," 2 kings
   14:25; deut. 1:1; 2:8, a distance of about 70 miles. it is
   called by the modern arabs the ghor. this hebrew name is found
   in authorized version josh. 18:18, and is uniformly used in
   the revised version. down through the centre of this plain is a
   ravine, from 200 to 300 yards wide, and from 50 to 100 feet
   deep, through which the jordan flows in a winding course. this
   ravine is called the "lower plain."
   
     the name arabah is also applied to the whole jordan valley
   from mount hermon to the eastern branch of the red sea, a
   distance of about 200 miles, as well as to that portion of the
   valley which stretches from the sea of galilee to the same
   branch of the red sea, i.e., to the gulf of akabah about 100
   miles in all.
   
     7. heb. shephelah, "low ground," "low hill-land," rendered
   "vale" or "valley" in authorized version josh. 9:1; 10:40;
   11:2; 12:8; judg. 1:9; 1 kings 10:27. in authorized version 1
   chr. 27:28; 2 chr. 26:10 it is also rendered "low country." in
   jer. 17:26, obad. 1:19, zech. 7:7, "plain." the revised version
   renders it uniformly "low land." when it is preceded by the
   article, as in deut. 1:7, josh. 11:16; 15:33, jer. 32:44; 33:13,
   zech. 7:7, "the shephelah," it denotes the plain along the
   mediterranean from joppa to gaza, "the plain of the
   philistines." see valley.
   
see also:
valley 

[11] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

plain, wi village, fips 63125
  location: 43.27829 n, 90.04218 w
  population 1990: 691 293 housing units
  area: 1.8 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 53577

[12] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

plain, wi -- u.s. village in wisconsin
   population 2000:    792
   housing units 2000: 339
   land area 2000:     0.731058 sq. miles 1.893431 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.731058 sq. miles 1.893431 sq. km
   fips code:            63125
   located within:       wisconsin wi, fips 55
   location:             43.277580 n, 90.044563 w
   zip codes 1990:     53577
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    plain, wi
    plain

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