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ble in rocky anchorage. -- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a poin…

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell.

One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.

A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] Nares.

canic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces.

chines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

Cone-shaped; conical.

A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches.

er of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. -- Conjugate diameters (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. -- Conjugate focus (Opt.) See under Focus. -- Conjugate mirrors (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays f…

A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.

Nearly, but not exactly, conical. Lindley.

A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4.

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

Rising to a point or head; conical; pointed; crested. Wiseman.

Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point. A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt.

Rising to a point; conical; copped. [Obs.] Woodward.

A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.

A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.

Curt; brief; laconic. Essays and curtal aphorisms. Milton. Curtal dog. See Curtail dog.