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Anything in the shape of a half moon. [R.]

Resembling the moon in shape.

Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.

Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.

A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.

Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf.

ma lyra), inhabiting India and Ceylon. It is remarkable for the enormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears. -- Lyre turtle (Zoöl.), the leatherback.

Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes.

crewed into wood. -- Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc. -- Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less gene…

nsely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.

A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [Obs.] Christ was a maid and shapen as a man. Chaucer.

is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! Addison.

emale piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc. Male berry (Bot.), a kind of coffee. See Pea berry. -- Male fern (Bot.), a fern of the genus Aspidium (A. Filixmas), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium mar…

Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. -- Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by…

A shapeless piece; a fragment. [Obs.]

Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.

A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.

A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.

The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

Shaped like the hand.