(often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.

(transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly. / (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.

(mechanics) One of the simple machines; a sloping surface such as a ramp such that an object can be raised with less effort than being lifted vertically.

(now rare, regional) Flat, level. / Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished. / Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.

(colloquial) Simply. / (archaic) Plainly; distinctly.

(rare, poetic) A lamentation.

(reflexive, obsolete) To complain. / (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.

An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands. / (archaic) Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.

(obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface. / (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

(obsolete) Full, complete in number or extent.