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Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.

Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.

In an annular manner.

Having the form of a ring; annular. Ray.

Having the form of a tube; tubular. [Written also canular.]

Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring. "Penannular relics." D. Wilson.

Having the figure of a half circle; forming a semicircle. Grew.

A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

.] Breeches buoy, in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to lan…

See Cannula, Cannular, and Cannulated.

ptics), a large lens constructed in several parts or layers, extending in a succession of annular rings beyond the central lens; - - used in lighthouses.

Raleigh. As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. Shelley. Annular eclipse. (Astron.) See under Annular. -- Cycle of eclipses. See under Cycle.

, the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.

One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.

e winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.

One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. Bowsprit shrouds (Naut.), ropes extending from the head of the bowsprit to the sides of the vessel. -- Futtock shrouds (Naut.), iron rods connecting the topmast rigging with the lower rigging, passing…

wings. -- Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field ilumination; -- called also spotted lens. -- Spot rump (Zoöl.), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa hæmastica). -- Spots on the sun. (Astron.) See S…

An annular reënforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.