plain

1. (colloquial) Simply.Examples: "It was just plain stupid."; "I plain forgot."colloquialnot-comparable

2. (archaic) Plainly; distinctly.Examples: "Tell me plain: do you love me or no?"archaicnot-comparable

1. (archaic) Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.Examples: "You have stormed no town and found the money there ; neither did you find it in the plains of Plassey after the defeat of the Nawab"; "Lead forth my soldiers to the plain."Synonyms: field in reference to a battlefieldarchaic

2. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field.alt-ofalternativeobsolete

1. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.Examples: "Frownst thou thereat aspiring Lancaster, The sworde shall plane the furrowes of thy browes,"; "We would rake Europe rather, plain the East;"obsoletetransitive

2. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.Examples: "What’s dumb in show, I’ll plain with speech."obsoletetransitive

1. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.Examples: "The warrior-threat, the infant's plain, The mother's screams, were heard in vain;"poeticrare

1. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.Examples: "Persones and parisch prestes · pleyned hem to þe bischop / Þat here parisshes were pore · sith þe pestilence tyme […]."obsoletereflexive

2. (ambitransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.Examples: "to plain a loss"; "Shepheards, that wont[…] Oft times to plaine your loves concealed smart"; "Thy mother could thee for thy cradle set Her husband's rusty iron corselet; Whose jargling sound might rock her babe to rest, That never plain'd of his uneasy nest."ambitransitivearchaicpoetic