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Alone [Scot.] His lane, by himself; himself alone.

A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.

A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.

In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

An aëroplane with two main supporting surfaces one above the other.

A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.

The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [Obs.] Fuller.

A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.

Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.

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

A kite of the genus Elanus.

Lit., strolling; sauntering; hence, aimless; idleness; as, intellectual flânerie.

One who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.

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.

A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.

A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an aëroplane.

Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.

An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica.

One of the inhabitants of the llanos of South America.