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An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.

Insusceptibility of intellectual or emotional impression; obtuseness; stupidity; coldness.

Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.

A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.

A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.

The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.

Obtuseness. Lond. Quart. Rev.

Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.

a North Atlantic jager (Stercorarius pomarinus) having the elongated middle tail feathers obtuse. The adult is black.

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge. Shak.

To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence. Ray. Cudworth.

ose sides are equal and the opposite sides parallel. The angles may be unequal, two being obtuse and two acute, as in the cut, or the angles may be equal, in which case it is usually called a square.

Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded; somewhat pointed or edged; peaked or ridged; as, a sharp hill; sharp features.

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity. Indocile, intractable fools, whose stolidity can baffle all arguments, and be proof against demonstration itself. Bentley.

Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.

Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.

An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.

Waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corolla; wavy.