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Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.

Belonging to planets. [R.] Young.

Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

Pertaining to a planetoid.

A little planet. [R.] Conybeare.

The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.]

Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." H. Taylor.

Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave.

Flat-leaved.

Having a plane surface; as, a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation.

An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.

Of or pertaining to planimetry.

The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.

a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t. Planing machine. (a) See Planer.

Of or pertaining to Planipennia.

including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also Planipennes.

Having flat petals.

To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.

One who, or that which, planishes. Weale.