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having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. -- Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. -- Angle meter, an instrument for mea…

the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. -- Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.

One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions. The inhabitants of the north and south temperate zones are always Antiscians. Brande & C.

One of the aphides; an aphid.

Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

d the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.

out lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster (1607).

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

e purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.

The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.

tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.