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To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank. [Obs.] "To that vineyard is a planched gate." Shak.

A floor of wood; also, a plank. [Obs.] Bacon.

A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.

The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.

The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.

skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus. -- Splanch`nap`o*phys"i*al, a. Mivart.

Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

Splanchnology.

That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.

lls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.

Of or pertaining to the three great splanchnic cavities, namely, that of the head, the chest, and the abdomen; -- applied to the sympathetic nervous system.

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

d by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

umlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

To make pale; to blanch. [Obs.] The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt.

A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli.

Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot.