Word Meanings - CHESTEYN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The chestnut tree. Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to CHESTEYN)
- PLANE TREE
See PLANE - WILWE
Willow. Chaucer. - PLANETULE
A little planet. Conybeare. - PLANE-PARALLEL
Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. - CHESTNUT
The edible nut of a forest tree of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. 2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. 3. A bright brown color, like that - PLANETED
Belonging to planets. Young. - PLANETOIDAL
Pertaining to a planetoid. - PLANET
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. Note: The term planet was first used - PLANETARIUM
An orrery. See Orrery. - PLANER TREE
A small-leaved North American tree related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit. - PLANE TABLE
See A - PLANE
Any tree of the genus Platanus. Note: The Oriental plane is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting - PLANETOID
A body resembling a planet; an asteroid. - PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne. - PLANETARY
Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton. 4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." Shak. 5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life." - CHESTEYN
The chestnut tree. Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn. Chaucer. - PLANER
A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even. Hansard. Planer centers. See under Center. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals. - PLANET-STRICKEN; PLANET-STRUCK
Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth. - HYDROBIPLANE
A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes. - CONVEXO-PLANE
Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex. - DOORPLANE
A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant. - CAPPING PLANE
A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails. - VOLPLANE
To glide in a flying machine. - INTERPLANETARY
Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle. - PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
One unprovided with motive power. - HYDRO-AEROPLANE
An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power. - ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine. - QUADRUPLANE
An aëroplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces. - HYDROPLANE
1. A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane. 2. A projecting plane or fin on - AEROPLANE
A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.