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The herb dill, or dillseed.

A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor. Watts.

Soothing.

See Abnet.

A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

See Burgonet.

A jeweled chain, necklace, or collar. [Also written carkenet and carcant.] Shak.

A carcanet. Southey.

See Castanets.

Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

A kite of the genus Elanus.

Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.

An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of liquids.

Same as Alkanet, 2. Ainsworth.

A little orphan. Drayton.

The magpie. [Written also pianate, and pyenate.]

A small piano; a pianino.

A star, as influencing the fate of a men. There's some ill planet reigns. Shak. Planet gear. (Mach.) See Epicyclic train, under Epicyclic. -- Planet wheel, a gear wheel which revolves around the wheel with which it meshes, in an epicyclic train.

Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.

An orrery. See Orrery.