Word Meanings - CHILIAGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides. Barlow.

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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
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• THOUSANDTH
  1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing. 2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into
• 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
• THOUSAND
  thusundig, thusind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. t, d, Icel. þusund, þushund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þusundi, 1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. 2.
• 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.
• PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
  Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.
• ANGLES
  An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land . The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.
• 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."
• THOUSAND LEGS
  A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.
• 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.
• IRONSIDES
  A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.
• 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.
• PANGLESS
  Without a pang; painless. Byron.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.