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PLURAL. A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one.
2. Sometimes, however, it may be so expressed that it means only one,
as, if a man were to devise to another all he was worth, if he, the
testator, died without children, and he died leaving one child, the devise
would not take effect. See Dig. 50, 16, 148; Id. 35, 1, 101, 1; Id. 3 1, 17,
4 Code, 6, 49, 6, 2; Shelf. on L 559, 589. See Singular.