The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they
should keep who can.
Wordsworth.
Body plan, Floor plan, etc. See under Body, Floor, etc.
Syn. -- Scheme; draught; delineation; plot; sketch; project; design;
contrivance; device. See Scheme.
Plan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Planning.] 1. To
form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
2. To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan
the conquest of a country.
Even in penance, planning sins anew.
Goldsmith.
||Pla*na"ri*a (?), n.; pl. L. PlanariÊ (#), E. -rias (#). [NL. See
||Planary.] (Zoˆl.) 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.
Pla*na"ri*an (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Planarida, or Dendrocúla; any
turbellarian worm. -- Pla*na"ri*an, a.
||Pla*nar"i*da (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) A division of Turbellaria; the
||Dendrocúla.
Pla*na"ri*oid (?), a. [Planaria + -oid.] (Zoˆl.) Like the planarians.
Pla"na*ry (?), a. [L. planarius level. See Plane, a.] Of or pertaining
to a plane. [R.]
Planch (?), n. [F. planche.] A plank. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.
Planch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Planching.]
[F. planche a board, plank. See Plank.] To make or cover with planks or
boards; to plank. [Obs.] "To that vineyard is a planched gate." Shak.
Planch"er (?), n. [F., planche. See Planch.] 1. A floor of wood; also,
a plank. [Obs.] Bacon.