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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plant \Plant\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Planted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Planting}.] [AS. plantian, L. plantare. See {Plant}, noun]
1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees. --Deut. xvi. 21.
3. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
It engenders choler, planteth anger. --Shak.
5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
Planting of countries like planting of woods. --Bacon.
6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
7. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
8. To set up; to install; to instate.
We will plant some other in the throne. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Planting \Plant"ing\, noun
1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.
2. That which is planted; a plantation.
Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. --Isa. lxi. 3.
3. (Arch.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. [Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
planting
noun
1: the act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway"
2: a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"
3: putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow; "the planting of corn is hard work"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "planting": broadcast, broadcasting, clump, crop, dissemination, growth, hassock, insemination, plantation, reforestation, resetting, retimbering, seeding, semination, setting, sowing, stand, transplantation, tuft, tussock
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