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A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.

Having many angles. -- Mul*tan"gu*lar*ly, adv. -- Mul*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.

Having many, or several, capsules.

Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.

Having many or several cells or compartments; as, a multilocular shell or capsule.

Having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionic nerve cells which have several radiating processes.

Having many titles.

Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.

Having many valves.

Having many eyes, or more than two.

or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber. Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness. Macaulay.

The state or quality of being muscular. Grew.

To make muscular. Lowell.

In a muscular manner.

Shaped like a boat; cymbiform; scaphoid; as, the navicular glumes of most grasses; the navicular bone. Navicular bone. (Anat.) (a) One of the middle bones of the tarsus, corresponding to the centrale; -- called also scaphoid. (b) A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. -- Navicular disease (Far…

Of or pertaining to nebulæ; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process of formation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms by Kant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed origi…

pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.

Nervomuscular.

Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.