An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.
To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.
To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
To make sketches, as of landscapes.
A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
A plantation laid out.
A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
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.
A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
A plan; a purpose.
In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
