2. Verb. To faint. ¹
3. Verb. To fall down dead. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plotz
1. to be overwhelmed by an emotion [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plotz
Literary usage of Plotz
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1889)
"HABITAT : India (plotz). Note—This species is quite unknown to me. ... Ent.
Zeitsch., 1886, p. 87, n. la. HABITAT : Malacca (plotz). ..."
2. A Textbook of bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"Also according to Anderson, active immunization with the plotz bacillus does not
render guinea-pigs refractory to virus inoculation. ..."
3. Typhus Fever with Particular Reference to the Serbian Epidemic by Richard Pearson Strong (1921)
"They point out that while Rocha-Lima found the Rickettsia to be Gram-negative,
and that the bacillus described by plotz was Gram-positive, that the organism ..."
4. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"cultivation, were followed by the work of plotz* and his collaborators, ...
Subsequent experience with the plotz bacillus has not established the ..."
5. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer, John William Cunliffe (1915)
"Dr. more than the racial inheritance and pos- Harry plotz of the Pathological
Labora- sibilities that he himself received. In a tory of Mount Sinai Hospital ..."
6. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"(plotz.) Morphology.—The organism is a small, slender bacillus, the average length
being about one micron. In young cultures the organisms are small and ..."
7. History of Pittsburgh and Environs: From Prehistoric Days to the Beginning by George Thornton Fleming (1922)
"HARLEY CLAY plotz—At the age of eighteen Mr. plotz entered the real estate ...
He is a son of William and Martha M. plotz, his father a contracting builder ..."
8. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1887)
"84, plotz, SEZ xlvii, n. spp. pi. vi, fig. 48, nepos, pi. vi, fig. ... Canapa,
Kirb., characters of genus and tabulation of species ; plotz, . EZ xlvii, pp. ..."
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