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Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.

Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder. Cylindrical lens, a lens having one, or more than one, cylindrical surface. -- Cylindric, or Cylindrical, surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line that moves according to any law, but so as…

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

The quality or condition of being cylindrical.

Having the form of a cylinder.

A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.

Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders.

A bat; a flittermouse.

pieces or splinters; fragments. The tough ash spear, so stout and true, Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott.

A salmon returning from the sea the second time. [Prov. Eng.]

An old term for blindman's buff. Shak.

Dim-sighted; purblind.

Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.

Same as Ovate-cylindraceous.

A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.

A writer of palindromes.

Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [Obs.] Bacon.

Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight." Shak.

In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]