planchetten.

c1450 Siege Troy (Rawl.) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 278 (MED) There were also many smale posternes with planchettes if nede were to issue oute, as wel in tyme of pes as of werre.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 291/1 Planchette, a small plank or board.

1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 136 Planchette, a narrow board under 4¹/₂ in. wide.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 291/1 Planchette,..a circumferentor.

1860 All Year Round 28 July 372 Like the effusions of all the self-deluding users of the planchette.

1870 A. Austin Poetry of Period 225 Spiritualism must be more or less familiar to the majority of my readers; but perhaps not quite so many of them are aware that these present little, if any, absolute novelty. Planchette has been known in China for hundreds, probably for thousands, of years.

1879 O. W. Holmes School-boy 19 The truant goose-quill travelling like Planchette.

1896 Daily News 5 Mar. 6/1 For nine years he toyed with the planchette, the turned tables, in short used the familiar, hanky-panky means of communication with the unseen world.

1949 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 20 Sept. 638/2 William Fuld, Baltimore, Md. Ouija..for Gameboard, utilizing a Planchette and sometimes known as a Talking Board. Claims use since July 1, 1890.

1986 Q. Hyder in M. R. Anand & S. B. Rao Panorama 193 Miss Drinkwater called spirits on the planchette.

1997 Columbian (Vancouver, Washington) (Nexis) 3 Oct. b1 Fingertips are placed on the planchette and it supposedly moves around under ‘spirit power’, to letters and words to spell out messages from the spirits.

1951 Proc. Inst. Electr. Engineers 98 ii. 236/1 J. L. Putman investigated the form of surface necessary to give a uniform response when using the G.M.2 counter-tube wherever the material was deposited on that surface. It was found that these surfaces were of approximately spherical shape, in a position concave towards the window. As a result of this work, a standard planchette, made of pressed nickel sheet, was designed to be used at a distance of 3 mm from the window.

1960 Nature 14 May 563/2 Synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid was measured by counting the total radioactivity of washed cells on planchettes.

1985 Jrnl. Radioanalyt. & Nucl. Chem. 89 323 The amount of technetium on the planchette can be determined by measuring the rate of beta radiation emission from the final concentrate.

1997 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 42 858 Occasionally, a filter was removed from the planchette after counting and placed in a scintillation vial for analysis by LSC.

1889 Scribner's Mag. Dec. p. 85/2 (advt.) For a real down-right good evening's fun buy a Planchette Board.

1914 H. Carrington Probl. Psychical Res. xii. 371 There can be little doubt that the same force which propels the planchette board propels the ouija board also.

1987 19th-cent. Lit. 42 184 The experiments with a planchette-board signify Jackson's belief in pagan supernaturalism.

1920 R. Macaulay Potterism iii. i. 108 Thought-readers, crystal-gazers, mediums and planchette-writers.

1884 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1883–4 2 232 The Spiritualist theory of Planchette-writing assumes the former of these two hypotheses.

1909 H. Carrington Physical Phenom. Spiritualism 67 The phenomena of table-tipping, of ouija and planchette writing.

1995 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 54 1032 Tao also owned books..dealing with planchette writing, exorcism, prayers, and curing illness.

1920 Q. Rev. July 196 He could not see how so vigorous a creative faculty..could be only a vague Planchette-like state of possession.