PLANCHETTE
Plan`chette", n. Etym: [F. See Planchet.]
1. A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.
2. A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.
PLANCHING
Planch"ing, n.
Defn: The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.
PLANE
Plane, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. platanus, Gr. Place, and cf. Platane,
Plantain the tree.] (Bot.)
Defn: Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Note: The Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) 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 flowers. The seeds are downy, and collected into round, rough, hard balls. The Occidental plane (Platanus occidentalis), which grows to a great height, is a native of North America, where it is popularly called sycamore, buttonwood, and buttonball, names also applied to the California species (Platanus racemosa).
PLANE
Plane, a. Etym: [L. planus: cf. F. plan. See Plan, a.]
Defn: Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.