Definition

• n. - A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
• n. - A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
• n. - The sole of the foot.
• n. - The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
• n. - A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
• n. - An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.