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To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.

oint; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland.

Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.

Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.

oint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; -- sometimes called abutting joint.

An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.

A sofa having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.

Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.

Having angles; as, a six canted bolt head; a canted window. Canted column (Arch.), a column polygonal in plan.

Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

dian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.

A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides. Barlow.

An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

under Function. -- Circular instruments, mathematical instruments employed for measuring angles, in which the graduation extends round the whole circumference of a circle, or 360º. -- Circular lines, straight lines pertaining to the circle, as sines, tangents, secants, etc. -- Circular note or letter. (a) (Com.) See…

A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.…

Pertaining to the oblique crystalline forms, or to solids which have oblique angles between the axes; as, the clinometric systems.

A game similar to ninepins, except that only three pins are used, which are set up at the angles of a triangle.

To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne.