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Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

Pertaining to a planetoid.

A little planet. [R.] Conybeare.

Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells.

A hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color.

Purslane. [Obs.]

ves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling. Flowering purslane, or Great flowered purslane, the Portulaca grandiflora. See Portulaca. -- Purslane tree, a South African shrub (Portulacaria Afra) with many small opposite fleshy obovate leaves. -- Sea purslane, a seashore plant (Arenaria…

An aëroplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces.

See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard.

See under Purslane.

A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.

Under the roof or eaves; within doors. [R.]

A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl acetylene.

A ballad. [Obs.] Cotton.

An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.

A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. E. W. Gosse.

A small villa. [R.]

To glide in a flying machine.

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