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- Angular - a. - Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
- Angular - a. - Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.
- Angular - a. - Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
- Angular - n. - A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
- Angularity - n. - The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
- Angularly - adv. - In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.
- Angularness - n. - The quality of being angular.
- Elbow - n. - Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.
- Polyacron - n. - A solid having many summits or angular points; a polyhedron.
- Auriculated - a. - Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zool.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc.
- Angular - a. - Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
- Tear-thumb - n. - A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
- Auricle - n. - An angular or ear-shaped lobe.
- Surangular - a. - Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds.
- Helicoid - n. - A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.
- Node - n. - The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
- Jaguar - n. - A large and powerful feline animal (Felis onca), ranging from Texas and Mexico to Patagonia. It is usually brownish yellow, with large, dark, somewhat angular rings, each generally inclosing one or two dark spots. It is chiefly arboreal in its habits. Called also the American tiger.
- Feather - n. - The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- Sextant - n. - An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant.
- Trigon - n. - A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.
- Survey - v. t. - To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast.
- Breccia - n. - A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.
- Depression - n. - The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
- Angularly - adv. - In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners.
- Angular - a. - Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.
- Anomalistical - a. - Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion.
- Gusset - n. - A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
- Soft - superl. - Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.
- Angulation - n. - A making angular; angular formation.
- Alternate - a. - Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
- Stovepipe - n. - Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
- Tooth - n. - An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant