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gled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; - - called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or ver…

A friction clutch with conical bearing surfaces.

A pulley for driving machines, etc., having two or more parts or steps of different diameters; a pulley having a conical shape.

Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.

A large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

See Conine.

The skunk.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

A rabbit. See Cony.

The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

A female deacon; as:

A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.

See Jaconet.

in cotton fabric, between and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc. [Written also jacconet.]

A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium.

he thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite. [Written also phragmacone.]