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Same as Soliped.

Strangulated.

h arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.

The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.

Slightly angular.

Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.

Under the roof or eaves; within doors. [R.]

Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular. Darwin.

See Surangular.

Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds. -- n.

A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

aining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. -- Teg"u*lar*ly, adv.

Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.

A device for the automatic regulation of temperature; a thermostat.

Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab (Zoöl.), any maioid crab; -- so called because the carapace is usually tr…

The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.

The quality or state of being triangular. Bolingbroke.

In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle. Dampier.

To make triangular, or three-cornered.

The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of…