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The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a gevser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.

Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.

Consecrator.

One who desecrates; a profaner. Harper's Mag.

hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped. Wood.

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

by which a person or thing is devoted or dedicated to sacred purposes. [Written also consecrater.]

A violent belching out or emitting, as of gaseous or other matter from the crater of a volcano, geyser, etc.

ony of microscopic algæ. -- Globe of compression (Mil.), a kind of mine producing a wide crater; -- called also overcharged mine. -- Globe daisy (Bot.), a plant or flower of the genus Globularing, common in Europe. The flowers are minute and form globular heads. -- Globe sight, a form of front sight placed on target…

Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater.

Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.

too small a charge into; as, to undercharge a gun. Undercharged mine (Mil.), a mine whose crater is not as wide at top as it is deep. W. P. Craighill.