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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 writ. See Detinue.

To split. [Obs.] Bailey.

talline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.

To unbind; to loosen. [Obs.] Mede.

To part; to divide. [Obs.] Boyle.

Unkindness; disservice. [R.] A. Tucker.

A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

Having different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jas. i. 8.

With the wind.

A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. Beau. & Fl.

A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder; -- distinguished from ring winding, etc.

sume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

oken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.

Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.

Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n.