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   Plot (?), n. [AS. plot; cf. Goth. plats a patch.  Cf. Plat a piece of ground.]
   1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, “a garden plot”.  Shak.
   
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   2. A plantation laid out. [Obs.]  Sir P. Sidney.
   
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   3. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
   
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   Plot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plotted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Plotting.] To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
   
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    This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. Carew.
   
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   Plot, n. [Abbrev. from complot.]
   1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, “the Rye-house Plot”.
   
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   I have overheard a plot of death. Shak.
   
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   O, think what anxious moments pass between
   
   The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! Addison.
   
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   2. A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy. [Obs.]
   
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   And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. Milton.
   
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   3. Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue. [Obs.] “A man of much plot.”  Denham.
   
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   4. A plan; a purpose. “No other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls.”  Jer. Taylor.
   
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   5. In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
   
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   If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before. Pope.
   
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   Syn. -- Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination; contrivance.
   
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   Plot (plŏt), v. i.
   1. To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.  Shak.
   
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   The wicked plotteth against the just. Ps. xxxvii. 12.
   
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   2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
   
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   The prince did plot to be secretly gone. Sir H. Wotton.
   
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   Plot, v. t. To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly. “Plotting an unprofitable crime.” Dryden. “Plotting now the fall of others.”  Milton
   
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