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"Plain" in Portuguese?

Pronunciation : Plain
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. playne, pleyne, fr. F. plaindre. See Plaint.]
Definition : Defn: To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic] Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Plain
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss. [Archaic & Poetic] Sir J. Harrington.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Plain
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [F., level, flat, fr. L. planus, perhaps akin to E. floor. Cf. Llano, Piano, Plan, Plane level, a level surface.]
Definition : 1. Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane. The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. Isa. xl. 4.

2. Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. Our troops beat an army in plain fight. Felton.

3. Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable. "'T is a plain case." Shak.

[Compar. Plainer; superl. Plainest.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Plain
Part of Speech : adv.
Definition : Defn: In a plain manner; plainly. "To speak short and pleyn." Chaucer. "To tell you plain." Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Plain
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. OF. plaigne, F. plaine. See Plain, a.]
Definition : 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. Descending fro the mountain into playn. Chaucer. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. Milton.

2. A field of battle. [Obs.] Arbuthnot. Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Plain
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. Plane, v.]
Definition : 1. To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface. [R.] We would rake Europe rather, plain the East. Wither.

2. To make plain or manifest; to explain. What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech. Shak.

t. [imp. & p. p. Plained (; p. pr. & vb. n. Plaining.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913