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Situated in one plane.

A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle. [Obs.]

Flattened; made level or even.

To take up (plants); to transplant. [R.]

Act of taking up plants from beds.

Of or pertaining to two planes.

To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants. I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could have displanted Such a fixed constancy. Beau. & Fl.

The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.

A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.

wers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant.

A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.

A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town. Campbell (Mil. Dict. ).

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

g, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

Explanatory.

The quality of being explanatory.

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes. Swift.

A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.

A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops.

An aëroplane with a boatlike or other understructure that enables it to travel on, or to rise from the surface of, a body of water by its own motive power.