Plat, n. 1. The flat or broad side of a sword. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Chaucer.
2. A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [Obs. or Prov.
Eng.] "To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat." Hakluyt.
Plat"an (?), n. [L. platanus. See Plane the tree.] [Written also
platane.] The plane tree. Tennyson.
Plat"a*nist (?), n. [L. platanista a sort of fish, Gr. &?;: cf. F.
plataniste.] (Zoˆl.) The soosoo.
||Plat"a*nus (?), n. [See Plane the tree.] (Bot.) A genus of trees; the
||plane tree.
Plat"band` (?), n. [F. plate- bande; plat, plate, flat, level + bande a
band.] 1. A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre;
hence, a border.
2. (Arch.) (a) A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which
much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave. (b) A list
or fillet between the flutings of a column.
Plate (?), n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate,
a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr.
&?;. See Place, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the
thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a
thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.