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Word Meanings - PLANE-PARALLEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • PLANE TREE
    See PLANE
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • GLASSEN
    Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
  • EXACTLY
    In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • PIECER
    1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
  • GLASSINESS
    The quality of being glassy.
  • GLASSWORT
    A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
  • GLASS-ROPE
    A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • PLANETULE
    A little planet. Conybeare.
  • GLASSILY
    So as to resemble glass.
  • PARALLELOGRAMMIC; PARALLELOGRAMMICAL
    Having the properties of a parallelogram.
  • PLANE-PARALLEL
    Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
  • GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
    One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
  • PARALLEL SULCUS
    A sulcus parallel to, but some distance below, the horizontal limb of the fissure of Sylvius.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • PIECEMEALED
    Divided into pieces.
  • GLASS-SPONGE
    A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • SPYGLASS
    A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
  • HYDROBIPLANE
    A hydro-aƫroplane having two supporting planes.
  • DRIFTPIECE
    An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
  • CODPIECE
    A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

 

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