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Tapered :: Tapered (a.) Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir..

Corona :: Corona (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis..

Pin-tailed :: Pin-tailed (a.) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds..

Tapering :: Tapering (a.) Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.

Taper :: Taper (n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light..

Fid :: Fid (n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing..

Surge :: Surge (n.) The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips..

Terebra :: Terebra (n.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell..

Hig-taper :: Hig-taper (n.) A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper..

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship..

Rat-tail :: Rat-tail (a.) Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File..

Nozzle :: Nozzle (n.) A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe..

Belemnite :: Belemnite (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages..

Pintail :: Pintail (n.) A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon..

Cucumiform :: Cucumiform (a.) Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved..

Tatouay :: Tatouay (n.) An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo..

Knout :: Knout (n.) A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used in Russia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted with wire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh..

Cone :: Cone (n.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled 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 vertex..

Taper :: Taper (v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end..

Tapering :: Tapering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tape.

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