From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\ (pl[o^]t), v. i.
1. To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially
against a government or those who administer it; to
conspire. --Shak.
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The wicked plotteth against the just. --Ps. xxxvii.
12.
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2. To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
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The prince did plot to be secretly gone. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plotted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plotting.]
To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on
a plan; to delineate.
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This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now
standeth. --Carew.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\, n. [Abbrev. from complot.]
1. Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a
complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some
purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a
conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
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I have overheard a plot of death. --Shak.
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O, think what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
--Addison.
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2. A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any
stratagem or conspiracy. [Obs.]
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And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced
commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had
any plot in the divorce. --Milton.
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3. Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or
intrigue. [Obs.] "A man of much plot." --Denham.
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4. A plan; a purpose. "No other plot in their religion but
serve God and save their souls." --Jer. Taylor.
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5. In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem,
comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually
unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
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If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as
springs from the subject, then the winding up of the
plot must be a probable consequence of all that went
before. --Pope.
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Syn: Intrigue; stratagem; conspiracy; cabal; combination;
contrivance.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\, n. [AS. plot; cf. Goth. plats a patch. Cf. Plat a
piece of ground.]
1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
--Shak.
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2. A plantation laid out. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
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3. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc.,
drawn to a scale.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Plot \Plot\, v. t.
To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
"Plotting an unprofitable crime." --Dryden. "Plotting now the
fall of others." --Milton
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plot
n 1: a secret scheme to do something (especially something
underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit
the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the
start" [syn: plot, secret plan, game]
2: a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a
bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch" [syn: plot,
plot of land, plot of ground, patch]
3: the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the
characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
4: a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
v 1: plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the
overthrow of the government"
2: make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows
interactions among variables or how something is constructed
[syn: diagram, plot]
3: make a plat of; "Plat the town" [syn: plat, plot]
4: devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play,
movie, or ballet); "the writer is plotting a new novel"