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To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes. Shak. My doubts enmesh me if I try. Lowell.

A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

To entangle. [Obs.] Spenser.

Entanglement; fold. [Obs.] Spenser.

To trammel; to entangle. Bp. Hacket.

The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

Having equal angles; equiangular. [R.] Johnson.

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed,…

Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. Equiangular spiral. (Math.) See under Spiral, n. -- Mutually equiangular, applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other.

Having equal legs or sides; isosceles. [R.] "Equicrural triangles." Sir T. Browne.

Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon. Equilateral hyperbola (Geom.), one whose axes are equal. -- Equilateral shell (Zoöl.), one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve, or divides it into two equal and symmetrical parts. -- Mutually e…

itting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle.

awn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.

To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe. The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved…

Having no corners; without angles. [R.]

of one over the other. Spherical excess (Geom.), the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.

g to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom. Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside. --…

Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. (Geom.) See under Angle.