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Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. Owen.

extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.

A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, - - often appearing before a thunderstorm.

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear. To the very tip of the nose. Shak.

tun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked. Tomato gall (Zoöl.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and l…

In France, a light-wheeled vehicle with square or rounded body and rear entrance.

Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

Having, or surrounded by, three fasciæ, or bands.

A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.

esembling a wheel. Trochal disk (Zoöl.), the cephalic disk of a rotifer. It is usually surrounded by a fringe of cilia.

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.

flower. Tubulous boiler, a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.

To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road. Knowles.

erstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sides curved inward convexly.

a. These mollusks have an elongated, turreted shell, composed of many whorls. They have a rounded aperture, and a horny multispiral operculum.

A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.

A slight, navel-like depression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.

A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.