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Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton.

Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.

In an obtuse manner.

State or quality of being obtuse.

Partially obtuse.

Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. [Obs.]

Obtuse-angled. [Obs.] Hutton.

eal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. -- Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. -- Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90º. -- Optic angle. See under Optic. -- Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right lines. -- Right angle, on…

Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland.

Of or pertaining to Boeotia; hence, stupid; dull; obtuse. -- n.

An external angle when obtuse or rounded.

sisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

Of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. Job xvii. 7. The understanding is dim. Rogers.

The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.

ich resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.

To render obtuse; to dull; to blunt; to stupefy; as, to hebetate the intellectual faculties. Southey

lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.