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Pertaining to, or noting, equal angles. Isogonic lines (Magnetism), lines traced on the surface of the globe, or upon a chart, connecting places at which the deviation of the magnetic needle from the meridian or true north is the same.

The quality of having similar sexual zooids or gonophores and dissimilar hydrants; -- said of certain hydroids.

Having the two webs equal in breath; -- said of feathers.

; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.

A variety of pear which ripens early.

Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.

One addicted to jargon; one who uses cant or slang. Macaulay.

The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.

A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage. [Obs.]

One who mangonizes. (Zoöl.)

To furbish up for sale; to set off to advantage. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.

A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.

Having but one brood in a season.

See Duck mole, under Duck. [Written also mollingong.]

A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles. Regular octagon, one in which the sides are all equal, and the angles also are all equal.

Having eight sides and eight angles.

See Octagonal. [Obs.]

A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oöspheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieæ and Peronosporeæ.