The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See Place.] (Zo["o]l.)
A European food fish ( Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.
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A large American flounder ( Paralichthys dentatus; called also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. [Written also plaise.]
Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. [R.]
--B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
n. (obsolete form of plaice nodot=yes English) (the fish)
Usage examples of "plaise".
Who returning nexte daie towarde Owlswyke I dyd followe aftir, and so toke them facynge me in a plaise cauled Crosbie Owtsykes where they did make shifte to kepe the phords and passages of Ethrey river very stronge.
Dieu ne plaise, I shall be in no position to blame or punish you for it.
Who returning nexte daie towarde Owlswyke I dyd followe aftir, and so toke them facynge me in a plaise cauled Crosbie Owtsykes where they did make shifte to kepe the phords and passages of Ethrey river very stronge.
He says in the "General Historie": "We not having any use of parliaments, plaises, petitions, admirals, recorders, interpreters, chronologers, courts of plea, or justices of peace, sent Master Wingfield and Captain Archer home with him, that had engrossed all those titles, to seek some better place of employment.