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The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.

The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.

her, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

An external angle when obtuse or rounded.

oint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

ly with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice.

An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.

A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.

Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.

A corner; angle; niche. [Obs.] The first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant. B. Jonson.

Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window. Canted column (Arch.), a column polygonal in plan.

Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse. These card the short comb the longer flakes. Dyer.

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. Carpal angle (Zoöl.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird.

r excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

Hence: To insnare; to entangle. "To catch him in his words". Mark xii. 13.

One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle. Barlow.

thern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. [Written also cæspitose.]

The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.