Word Meanings - ENNEAGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

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• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• POLYGONAL
  Having many angles. Polygonal numbers, certain figurate numbers. See under Figurate.
• POLYGONOMETRY
  The doctrine of polygons; an extension of some of the principles of trigonometry to the case of polygons.
• POLYGONUM
  A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.
• POLYGONOUS
  Polygonal.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• POLYGONEUTIC
  Having two or more broods in a season.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• 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
• ANGLESITE
  A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.
• SIDESMAN
  1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
• PLANETOID
  A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
• POLYGONY
  Any plant of the genus Polygonum.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• 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.