Plant"ing (?), n.
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.]
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