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premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

rm themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.

Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.

Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.

e Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a cañon, which has precipitous sides.

A piece of timber having a groove in which something glides.

ng in love; solicitation of woman to marriage. This method of courtship, [by which] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow. Goldsmith.

The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden.

A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

ol, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting. Their credential letters on both sides. Camden.

e floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.

with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

ched to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

e angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

ad (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.