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A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

le, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay.

To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. [Obs.] See how the sea flapdragoned it. Shak.

A grappling iron. [Obs.]

A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. [Written also endecagon.]

A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

Having seven angles or sides. Heptagonal numbers (Arith.), the numbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.

A plane figure of six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.

Having six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system. (Crystal.) See under Crystallization.

In an hexagonal manner.

A hexagon. [Obs.] Bramhall.

A figure or polygon whose angles are equal.

The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.

A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.

A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles. Regular octagon, one in which the sides are all equal, and the angles also are all equal.

Having eight sides and eight angles.

The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.

A companion; a match; an equal. [Obs.] Spenser. Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister. Sir P. Sidney.