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Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash. "Paned hose." Massinger.

Without panes. To patch his paneless window. Shenstone.

otation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

d in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes. Revolutions . . . parallel to the equinoctial. Hakluyt.

t fall from a fixed point upon the straight lines tangent to a given curve, or upon the planes tangent to a given surface. -- Pedal note (Mus.), the note which is held or sustained through an organ point. See Organ point, under Organ. -- Pedal organ (Mus.), an organ which has pedals or a range of keys moved by the fe…

To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic] So honor peereth in the meanest habit. Shak. See how his gorget peers above his gown! B. Jonson.

ument similar to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp. such as cannot be taken by the compass.

r compounds; thus, barium peroxide is the highest oxide of barium; while nitrogen and manganese peroxides, so-called, are not the highest oxides of those elements.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.

tringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. Japanese persimmon, Diospyros Kaki and its red or yellow edible fruit, which outwardly resembles a tomato, but contains a few large seeds.

Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.

A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.

Having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as certain birds.

Addison. Pithy gall (Zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.

lane in perspective; -- called also principal plane. (b) (Descriptive Geom.) One of the planes to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position in space. -- Plane of refraction or reflection (Opt.), the plane in which lie both the incident ray and the refracted or reflected ray.…

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

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree.