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Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

e the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first. Gimbal joint (Mach.), a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal. -- Gimbal ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.…

ely in opposite directions so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles. Knight. -- Sandwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts.

tween the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.

Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian.

A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.

An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes. Contact, or Hand, goniometer, a goniometer having two movable arms (ab, cd), between which (at ab) the faces of the crystals are placed. These arms turn about a fixed point, which is the center of the graduated circle o…

The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.

See Angler.

One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.

A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two linea drawn from the fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner.

To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post. My sword hacked like a handsaw. Shak.

A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.

ack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood. Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped. Shak.

An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals; a goniometer.

A stone with spangles of gold color in it.

r. "Hampered nerves." Blackmore. A lion hampered in a net. L'Estrange. They hamper and entangle our souls. Tillotson.