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Look up: planchette

  1. Planchette
    A small platform on casters generally used with a ouija board. Sometimes used with an attached pencil to produce automatic writing.
    Found on http://www.psychics.co.uk/define/

  2. Planchette
    A small platform on casters generally used with a ouija board. Sometimes used with an attached pencil to produce automatic writing.
    Found on http://www.mdani.demon.co.uk/para/paragl

  3. planchette
    [n] - a triangular board supported on casters
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. planchette
    Piece of wood, heart-shaped and mounted on two castors, with a pencil fixed point downwards in place of a third castor. When a hand is placed on the wood, the pencil moves, and is alleged to write...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  5. Planchette
    Plan`chette' noun [ French See Planchet .] 1. A circumferentor. See Circumferentor . 2. A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/99

  6. planchette
    1. A circumferentor. See Circumferentor. ... 2. A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import. ... Origin: F. See Planchet. ... Source: Websters Dic ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. planchette
    noun a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Planchette
    A `planchette` is a triangular or heart-shaped board supported by castors which moves to spell out messages, or answer questions. Paranormal advocates believe that the planchette is moved by some extra-normal force. Skeptics attribute the motion to the ideomotor effect. In typical usage, a pencil would be attached to the planchette, printing letters or other designs on paper to be later interpreted by a medium. The most common use of the planche...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchette

  9. Planchette
    • (n.) A circumferentor. See Circumferentor. • (n.) A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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