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Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc..

Saddle-backed :: Saddle-backed (a.) Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle.

Concavity :: Concavity (n.) A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave..

Inshave :: Inshave (n.) A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

Ginglymodi :: Ginglymodi (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel..

Palm :: Palm (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.

Tocororo :: Tocororo (n.) A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.

Concavation :: Concavation (n.) The act of making concave.

Hypotrochoid :: Hypotrochoid (n.) A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles..

Castanets :: Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars..

Dishing :: Dishing (a.) Dish-shaped; concave.

Concavo-convex :: Concavo-convex (a.) Specifically, having such a combination of concave and convex sides as makes the focal axis the shortest line between them. See Illust. under Lens..

Teleosaur :: Teleosaur (n.) Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae..

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..

Triquetrous :: Triquetrous (a.) Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal..

Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof..

Concaveness :: Concaveness (n.) Hollowness; concavity.

Engrailed :: Engrailed (a.) Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like..

Subconformable :: Subconcave (a.) Slightly concave.

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