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- Tapering - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Taper
- Tapering - a. - Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.
- Conical - a. - Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.
- Horn - n. - An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- Spire - n. - A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
- Gusset - n. - A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
- Archaeopteryx - n. - A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.
- Swallow-tailed - a. - Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat.
- Belemnite - n. - A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages.
- Toggle - n. - A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
- Wedge-shaped - a. - Broad and truncate at the summit, and tapering down to the base; as, a wedge-shaped leaf.
- Obelisk - n. - An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
- Rat - n. - A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.
- Eristalis - n. - A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvae) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.
- Rat-tailed - a. - Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.
- Lanceolated - a. - Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
- Cone - n. - A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
- Amphora - n. - Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.
- Fid - n. - A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
- Fusiform - a. - Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.
- Cue - n. - A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
- Pintail - n. - A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.
- Spinescent - a. - Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines.
- Taper - n. - A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
- Tribolet - n. - A tapering mandrel.
- Wedge - n. - A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
- Subulated - a. - Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
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- H5577 סַנְסִן - 5577 סַנְסִן - סַנְסִן - - çançin - san-seen' - from an unused root meaning to be pointed; a twig (as tapering); bough. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H6803 צִנְצֶנֶת - 6803 צִנְצֶנֶת - צִנְצֶנֶת - - tsintseneth - tsin-tseh'-neth - from the same as צֵן; a vase (probably a vial tapering at the top); pot. - Noun Feminine - heb