Index of English words, starting with "pl"

(1) - 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.
(2) - Planchette (n.) A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.

(1) - Plane (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
(2) - Plane (a.) To efface or remove.
(3) - 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.
(4) - 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.
(5) - Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
(6) - 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.
(7) - 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.
(8) - Plane (a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
(9) - Plane (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.

(1) - Planer (n.) A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.
(2) - Planer (n.) One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.