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- Disk - n. - A discus; a quoit.
- Disk - n. - A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
- Disk - n. - The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
- Disk - n. - A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
- Disk - n. - The whole surface of a leaf.
- Disk - n. - The central part of a radiate compound flower, as in sunflower.
- Disk - n. - A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.
- Disk - n. - The anterior surface or oral area of coelenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
- Disk - n. - The lower side of the body of some invertebrates, especially when used for locomotion, when it is often called a creeping disk.
- Disk - n. - In owls, the space around the eyes.
- Diskindness - n. - Unkindness; disservice.
- Diskless - a. - Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.
- Transit - v. t. - To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
- Wafer - n. - An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.
- Sabot - n. - A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.
- Celidography - n. - A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.
- Limb - n. - The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
- Wabble - v. i. - To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
- Discoblastic - a. - Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.
- Chaffy - a. - Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers.
- Bull's-eye - n. - A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.
- Drummond light - - A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime; or a stream of oxygen gas through a flame of alcohol upon a ball or disk of lime; -- called also oxycalcium light, or lime light.
- Salamander - n. - A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.
- Target - n. - A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- Gong - n. - An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.
- Peritricha - n. pl. - A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.
- Full-orbed - a. - Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.
- Buttonmold - n. - A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth.
- Cadrans - n. - An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
- Phonograph - n. - An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.
- Gastrodisc - n. - That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.
- Lophophore - n. - A disk which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacles of the Bryozoa. See Phylactolemata.
- Goggle - v. i. - A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.
- Web - n. - A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
- Planchet - n. - A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.
- Disk - n. - A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
- Daisy - n. - A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositae. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.
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- H70 אֹבֶן - 70 אֹבֶן - אֹבֶן - - ʼôben - o' ben - from the same as אֶבֶן; a pair of stones (only dual); a potter's wheel or a midwife's stool (consisting alike of two horizontal disks with a support between); wheel, stool. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3730 כַּפְתֹּר - 3730 כַּפְתֹּר - כַּפְתֹּר - - kaphtôr - kaf-tore' - or (Amos 9:1) כַּפְתּוֹר; probably from an unused root meaning to encircle; a chaplet; but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of acolumn, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum; knop, (upper) lintel. - Noun Masculine - heb