Plane
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1):
(a.) 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.
(2):
(a.) 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.
(3):
(a.) 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.
(4):
(a.) 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.
(5):
(v. i.) Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.
(6):
(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
(7):
(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
(8):
(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
(9):
(a.) To efface or remove.
(10):
(n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
PLANE . Isaiah 44:18 only; see Arts and Crafts, § 1 . For ‘plane tree’ see Chestnut Tree, Pine Tree.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(מִקְצֻעָה, n. akstuah, a chisel for carpenter's work, Isaiah 44:13). (See Handicraft).
