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Plane [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In geometry, an even or level surface, like plain in popular language.

2. In astronomy, an imaginary surface supposed to pass through any of the curves described on the celestial sphere; as the plane of the ecliptic; the plane of a planet's orbit; the plane of a great circle.

3. In mechanics. [ See Plain figure.]

4. In joinery and cabinet work, an instrument consisting of a smooth piece of wood, with an aperture, through which passes obliquely a piece of edged steel or chisel, used in paring or smoothing boards or wood of any kind.

Plane [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make smooth; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of a board or other piece of wood by the use of a plane

2. To free from inequalities of surface.

Plane [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. To efface or remove.

8. Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

Plane [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

Plane table Webster's Dictionary 1913

See under Plane, a.

Plane tree Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as 1st Plane.

Plane-parallel [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.

Plane-tree [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A tree of the genus Platanus. The oriental plane-tree is a native of Asia; it rises with a straight smooth branching stem to a great highth, with palmated leaves and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close sitting flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The occidental plane-tree which grows to a great highth, is a native of noun America; it is called also button-wood.

Planed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made smooth with a plane; leveled.

Planed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Plane

Planer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

2. A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form, and making the surface even.

Planer tree Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Planet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A celestial body which revolves about the sun or other center, or a body revolving about another planet as its center. The planets which revolve about the sun as their center, are called primary planets; those which revolve about other planets as their center, and with them revolve about the sun, are called secondary planets, satellites or moons. The primary planets are named Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Herschell. Four smaller planets, denominated by some, asteroids, namely, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, have recently been discovered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Herschell, being without the earth's orbit, are sometimes called the superior planets; Venus and Mercury, being within the earth's orbit, are called inferior planets. The planets are opake bodies which receive their light from the sun. They are so named from their motion or revolution, in distinction from the fixed stars, and are distinguished from the latter by their not twinkling.

Planet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. A star, as influencing the fate of a men.

Planet-stricken [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Planet-struck

Planet-struck [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.

Planet-struck [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.

Planetarium [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An astronomical machine which, by the movement of its parts, represents the motions and orbits of the planets, agreeable to the Copernican system.

Planetarium [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An orrery. See Orrery.

Planetary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to the planets; as planetary inhabitants; planetary motions.

2. Consisting of planets; as a planetary system.

3. Under the dominion or influence of a planet; as a planetary hour. [Astrology.]

4. Produced by planets; as planetary plague or influence.

5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic or revolving.

6. Planetary days, the days of the week as shared among the planets, each having its day, as we name the days of the week after the planets.

Planetary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.

2. Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.

3. Under the dominion or influence of a planet.

4. Caused by planets.

5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.

Planeted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Belonging to planets.

Planeted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Belonging to planets.

Planetic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Planetical

Planetical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to planets. [Not used.]

Planetical [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to planets.

Planetoid [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

Planetoidal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Planetule [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A little planet.

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Genesis 30:37

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.

2 Kings 23:5

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

Isaiah 44:13

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.

Sirach 24:14

I was exalted like a palm tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose plant in Jericho, as a fair olive tree in a pleasant field, and grew up as a plane tree by the water.