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Word Meanings - PLANO-CONICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other. Grew.

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  • PLANE TREE
    See PLANE
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • CONICALITY
    Conicalness.
  • PLANETULE
    A little planet. Conybeare.
  • PLANE-PARALLEL
    Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
  • OTHER
    Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
  • PLANETED
    Belonging to planets. Young.
  • OTHERNESS
    The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
  • PLANETOIDAL
    Pertaining to a planetoid.
  • OTHERGATES
    In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
  • PLANET
    A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
  • PLANETARIUM
    An orrery. See Orrery.
  • PLANER TREE
    A small-leaved North American tree related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.
  • OTHERWISE
    1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. 2. In other respects. It is said, truly, that
  • PLANE TABLE
    See A
  • PLANE
    Any tree of the genus Platanus. Note: The Oriental plane is a native of Asia. It rises with a straight, smooth, branching stem to a great height, with palmated leaves, and long pendulous peduncles, sustaining several heads of small close-sitting
  • OTHERWAYS
    See TYNDALE
  • PLANETOID
    A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
  • OTHERWHERE
    In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere. Milton. Tennyson.
  • PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
    Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • LACONIC; LACONICAL
    1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.
  • ISOTHERMOBATHIC
    Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
  • HYDROBIPLANE
    A hydro-aƫroplane having two supporting planes.
  • MOTHER-OF-PEARL
    The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
  • MOTHER'S DAY
    A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
  • STEPMOTHER
    The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
  • MOTHERING
    A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
  • DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
    A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
  • MOTHERLESS
    Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
  • FOTHER
    fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. patra vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer. 2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.

 

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