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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,176 words match “SHAPE”

CULTIROSTRAL a.

Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

CULTRATE; CULTRATED a.

Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds.

Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18-pounder with serpent-shaped handles. Trump, and drum, and roaring culverin. Mac

Relating to a wedge; wedge-shaped.

CUNEATE; CUNEATED a.

Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.

CUNEIFORM; CUNIFORM a. 3 definitions

Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.

Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone.

To shape (the brim) into a curve.

t descent. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other perculiarities of a curve from its equation. -- Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the other points of t…

The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

CUT v. 5 definitions

To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out. Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton.

A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from

CYLINDRICALLY adv.

In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical.

A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

er of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint. [East Indies]

akewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton.