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1. 3. A formulated scheme for the accomplishment of some object or the attainment of an end; the various steps which have been thought out and decided upon for the carrying out of some project or operation. Where there seemed nothing but confusion, he can now discern the dim outlines of a gigantic plan . H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 322. The very fact of a plan implies a logical procedure. W. L. Davidson, Mind, XII. 253. 4. A method or proce ; a way; a custom. For why? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan , That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Words worth, Rob Roy's Grave. 5. A type of structure: as, man is the highest development of the vertebrate plan ; the plan of a mollusk or an insect. - American plan. See Amer ican . Common plan, in biol ., an archetype. - Details of a plan. See detail . - European plan. See European . Half-breadth plan, in ship - building , a plan showing the Half-breadth Plan. various lines of one longitudinal half of a ship projected on the horizontal plane. - Hemal plan, in mollusks, that modification of the common plan in which, by disproportionate growth of the post abdomen, the intestine acquires a hemal flexure: distinguished from neural plan. Instalment plan. See instalment . - Neural plan, in mollusks, that modification of the common plan in which, by disproportionate growth of the abdomen, the intestine acquires a neural flexure: distinguished from hemal plan . Plan of campaign. (a) A formulated scheme for carrying on a campaign. (b) In Ireland, a system of procedure formed in 1886 and supported by the National League. The officers of the League, acting as trustees, receive the rent of tenants on rack-rented estates; this money, le a certain narius , flat (see planary ), + -an .] I. a. Flat, as a turbellarian; belonging to the Plan arid a or Dendrocala . See cut under Dendrocæla .