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Ply \Ply\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Plying}.] [OE. plien, F. plier to fold, to bend, fr. L.
plicare; akin to Gr. ?, G. flechten. Cf. {Apply}, {Complex},
{Display}, {Duplicity}, {Employ}, {Exploit}, {Implicate},
{Plait}, {Pliant}, {Flax}.]
1. To bend. [Obs.]

As men may warm wax with handes plie. --Chaucer.

2. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or
with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately;
as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with
drink.

And plies him with redoubled strokes --Dryden.

He plies the duke at morning and at night. --Shak.

3. To employ diligently; to use steadily.

Go ply thy needle; meddle not. --Shak.

4. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.

Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply.
--Waller.

Corporate money is helping finance the red-cushioned chairs on which the delegates are sitting, the special $1 million television lighting system hanging over their heads and the sky-box hospitality suites plying them with good food and drink.
Tank barges plying only the Great Lakes could also be exempted until 2015, Skinner said.
From its vantage point off Andros Island, the E2C's radar can pick up smugglers plying two favored air routes from Colombia's northernmost point, the Guajira peninsula: One route is via Cuba, the other via Haiti.
Police said two Syrian gunboats were cruising the Mediterranean north of Beirut to search ships plying Christian waters.
One liner plying the Caribbean expects to have about 40, elderly, wheelchair-bound people per cruise. But the biggest design changes are hidden, say the architects.
These vehicles used to be the main means of transport in Manila, but now they are used primarily to transport people to the buses plying the main routes and the elevated light-rail transit.
Yet another dream of Mr. Ozal's is the so-called Peace Pipeline, which would bring water from the plentiful supplies in the Turkish mountains down to Syria and Jordan, with possi bly another line sup plying Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Mr Lamont was like the bank robber who wounded an innocent by-stander while plying his trade.
Some are said to be organizing quiet petition drives among black South Africans urging Mr. Sullivan to keep plying the principles.
And because some regulators have threatened to confiscate ships until cleanup and damage claims are satisfied, the single-ship companies plying U.S.bound routes will likely be the oldest and most expendable tankers in the world fleet.
Eight years ago, aged 25, he took a gamble on an old ship and made a fortune plying European ports on sky-high freight rates in the wake of the British miners' strike.
Soviet fishing ships are increasingly plying the waters around the Pacific islands.
About half the grain freighters plying the Great Lakes are at present idle. Estimates of June exports were cut yesterday.

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