plenish, v. Chiefly Sc.
(ˈplɛnɪʃ)
Forms: 5 plenys(s, plennes, 6 planish, -eis, -es, plenisch, -ishe, -iss, 6–7 plenniss, 6– plenish.
[ad. OF. pleniss-, lengthened stem of plenir (Langtoft c 1300) to fill, f. stem plen-:—L. plēnns full.]
1. trans. To fill up, furnish, supply, stock; to replenish. Orig. Sc. and north. dial.; also general Eng. in 19th c.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace vii. 1024 Thai..Plenyst the toune agayne with Scottis blud. 1513 Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 42 Thow plenest paradise, and thow heriet hell. 1528 Lyndesay Dreme 682 This part of Asia, Weill planesit with Cieteis, towris, and townis. c 1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxvi. 9 Ȝit thay ar planeist and repleit Of falset and dissait thair sell. 1829 Examiner 756/2 The doctor..drew the tureen near to his plate, which he plenished and replenished. 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm II. 178 On the return of the horses to the stable..they find their mangers plenished with corn. 1854 S. Dobell Balder xxiii. 107 So comes Morn, Plenishes all things, and completes the world. |
b. spec. To furnish (a house, a farm, etc.). Sc. and north. dial.
| a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 171 The landis was so waistit..that na thing was plenischit wntill Edinburgh. 1663 Sir G. Mackenzie Religious Stoic xii. (1685) 111 He had plenished his house abundantly. 1680 in A. Laing Lindores Abbey xx. (1876) 252 Resolves to plenish a room. ? a 1700 in P. Walker Remark. Passages (1727) 16 (Jam.), I told you to take no more rooms at Martinmas, than ye will plenish at Whitsunday. 1822 Scott Let. to D. Terry 10 Nov. in Lockhart, Your kind and unremitting exertions..will soon plenish the drawing room. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss., Plenish or Plennish, to furnish a house. |
† 2. absol. or intr. To spread abroad; to fill a vacant space. Sc. Obs.
| 1457 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 51/2 That na man mak ȝardis nor heggis of dry staikis..nor ȝit of na hewyn wode bot allanerly of lyffand wode þe quhilk may grow & plenyss. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 87 He rode..Withoutin stop ay on to Tynismouth, And planeist had that tyme ouir all that place. |
Hence ˈplenished ppl. a., furnished, stocked.
| 1586 Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 92 Laying of grite plennist boundis waist. 1856 Merivale Rom. Emp. V. xlii. 56 Behind so well-plenished an equipage. |