Word Meanings - MESIALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.
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- PLANE TREE
See PLANE - TOWARD; TOWARDS
1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil - TOWARDS
See TOWARD - MESIAL
Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. See Meson. - TOWARDNESS
Quality or state of being toward. - PLANETULE
A little planet. Conybeare. - PLANE-PARALLEL
Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass. - MESIALLY
In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad. - PLANETED
Belonging to planets. Young. - PLANETOIDAL
Pertaining to a planetoid. - TOWARDLY
See DRYDEN - MESIAD
Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad. - TOWARDLINESS
The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh. - 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. - TOWARD
1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. - 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. - UNTOWARDLY
Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke. - 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.