Vocabulary : Plumule to Plunged

Plumule : of Plumula ;; The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle. ;; A down feather. ;; The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather. ;; One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.
Plumulose : Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.
Plumy : Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery.
Plunder : To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. ;; To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. ;; The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. ;; That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. ;; Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.
Plunderage : The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.

Plundered : of Plunder
Plunderer : One who plunders or pillages.
Plundering : of Plunder
Plunge : To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. ;; To baptize by immersion. ;; To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome. ;; To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in; as, he plunged into the river. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge into debt. ;; To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does. ;; To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations. ;; The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water; as, to take the water with a plunge. ;; Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties. ;; The act of pitching or throwing one'
Plunged : of Plunge

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