To lament; to bewail; to complain.
To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.
To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
To make plain or manifest; to explain.
Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.
Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.
Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
In a plain manner; plainly.
Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.
A field of battle.
Any tree of the genus Platanus.
A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
To efface or remove.
Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.
