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p and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis…

s Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the bod…

A female who arbitrates or judges.

A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

A female archer. Markham.

A female architect.

The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity. W. Smith.

A female hearer. Milton.

A female author. Glover.

A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.

A female avenger. [Obs.] Spenser.

A female bacchanal.

cret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.

A female baker. [Obs.]

A female banker. Thackeray.

a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

se of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

A baker; originally, a female baker. [Old Eng. & Scotch]

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]