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An oblique-angled parallelogram like a rhomb, but having only the opposite sides equal, the length and with being different.

A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic. To sail on a rhumb, to sail continuously on one course, following a rhumb line.

ese are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like.

A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. Ricochet firing (Mil.), the firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bo…

The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth. At right angles, so as to form a right angle or right angles, as when one line crosses another perpendicularly. -- Right and left, in both or all directions. [Colloq.] -- Right and left coupling (Pipe fitting), a coupling the opposite ends…

Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.

The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. Tennyson.

To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). Fair Venusson that with thy cruel dart At that good knoght cunningly didst rove. Spenser.

and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion.

An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.

the chords of arcs from 0º to 90º in a circle of given radius, -- used in measuring given angles and in plotting angles of given numbers of degrees.

Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.

pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.

To mangle. [Obs.] Mortimer.

r hewing; to score the back with a lash. Let us score their backs. Shak. A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand. M. Arnold.

To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

eed (Polygonum sagittatum) with a square stem beset with fine recurved prickles along the angles. -- Scratch wig. Same as Scratch, 4, above. Thackeray.