Planarioid :: Planarioid (a.) Like the planarians.

Planary :: Planary (a.) Of or pertaining to a plane.

Planch :: Planch (n.) A plank.

Planch :: Planch (v. t.) To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.

Planched :: Planched (imp. & p. p.) of Planc.

Plancher :: Plancher (n.) A floor of wood; also, a plank..

Plancher :: Plancher (n.) The under side of a cornice; a soffit.

Plancher :: Plancher (v. t.) To form of planks.

Planchet :: Planchet (n.) A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin..

Planchette :: Planchette (n.) A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.

Planchette :: Planchette (n.) A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import..

Planching :: Planching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Planc.

Planching :: Planching (n.) The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks..

Plane :: Plane (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.

Plane :: Plane (a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature..

Plane :: Plane (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc..

Plane :: Plane (a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank..

Plane :: Plane (a.) To efface or remove.

Plane :: Plane (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth..

Plane Table :: Plane table () See under Plane, a..

Plane Tree :: Plane tree () Same as 1st Plane.

Plane-parallel :: Plane-parallel (a.) Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass..

Planed :: Planed (imp. & p. p.) of Plan.

Planer :: Planer (n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals..

Planer :: Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even..

Planer Tree :: Planer tree () A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit..

Planet :: Planet (n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system..

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