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Word Meanings - CHESTEYN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The chestnut tree. Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn. Chaucer.

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  • 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.

 

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