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A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.

One of the Planarida, or Dendrocoela; any turbellarian worm. -- Pla*na"ri*an, a.

A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocoela.

Like the planarians.

Of or pertaining to a plane. [R.]

A plank. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

A floor of wood; also, a plank. [Obs.] Bacon.

A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.

The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.

Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

See under Plane, a.

Same as 1st Plane.

Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.

One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.

A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.

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.