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A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

graph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.

A needle-shaped peak.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

Wing-shaped; winglike.

Anything shaped like an almond. Specifically: (Anat.)

One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.

Shaped like a catkin.

Resembling an amoeba; amoeba-shaped; changing in shape like an amoeba. Amoeboid movement, movement produced, as in the amoeba, by successive processes of prolongation and retraction.

Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan.

Shapelessness. [Obs.] Swift.

figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.

Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

Having an ampulla; flask-shaped; bellied.

Flask-shaped; dilated.

Almond-shaped.

Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass. Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a li…

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.