Crossword clues for planted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plant \Plant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planted; p. pr. & vb. n. Planting.] [AS. plantian, L. plantare. See Plant, n.]
To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
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To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees.
--Deut. xvi. 21. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
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To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
It engenders choler, planteth anger.
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To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
Planting of countries like planting of woods.
--Bacon. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
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To set up; to install; to instate.
We will plant some other in the throne.
--Shak.
Planted \Plant"ed\, a. (Joinery) Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: plant)
WordNet
adj. (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held; "deep-rooted prejudice"; "deep-seated differences of opinion"; "implanted convictions"; "ingrained habits of a lifetime"; "a deeply planted need" [syn: deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, ingrained]
set in the soil for growth [ant: unplanted]
Usage examples of "planted".
The first two kilometres above the coves were terraced like an ancient hill farm, planted with flowering bushes and orchards tended by agronomy servitors.
They had manned them both, and planted their ordinance for that present, and sudden alarum vvithout the gate, and also some troopes of small shot in Ambuscado vpon the hievvay side.
Monday morning and planted a heap of papers on his desk: sketch-plans, preliminary figures worked out on my portable analogue computer, estimates, the lot.
Harte fervently and proceeded without any more ado to create havoc amongst the antirrhinums planted thickly in the bed along the wall of the house.
Wicker and Brooks had already arrived at Le Bearn and had planted several miniaturized cameras and listening devices in the bar, restaurant, and bathroom.
Jezebel was mighty proud of her inheritance from her pappy and in a pathetic fit of beautification planted a few geranimus and pansies in the hard packed ground fronting the splintery porch of the dwelling.
He struck Bernard as a trifle nervous-- as less solidly planted on his feet than when he lounged along the Baden gravel-walks by the side of his usual companion-- a lady for whom, apparently, his admiration was still considerable.
He was planted with his hands behind him, looking up first at the heavy rain-clouds, as they crossed the great bulls-eye, and then down at the besprinkled circle on the pavement.
As Bester vanished along the below-ground ramp, he sauntered towards a solid bench planted a hundred yards away.
Beauty had planted there spilt over the corners of the beds at their feet, and the roses bloomed everywhere round them, silhouetted in the faint light, and the white roses were shimmers in the gloom.
From a similar principle, Probus exercised his legions in covering with rich vineyards the hills of Gaul and Pannonia, and two considerable spots are described, which were entirely dug and planted by military labor.
They hauled black dirt from the cane fields and mixed it in the wagon with sheep manure and humus from the swamp, then filled the beds with it and planted roses, hibiscus, azalea bushes, windmill palms, hydrangeas and banana trees all around the house.
Looking round, Macro observed the same forwardness in the other Celtic women and was trying to reconcile himself to the strange ways of this new culture when Boudica planted a boozy kiss on his lips.
The try-works are planted between the foremast and mainmast, the most roomy part of the deck.
On land that has been very highly manured for a series of years, cabbage can be planted nearer than on land that has been under the plow but a few years.