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

Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

Cope :: Cope (n.) Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door..

Subconformable :: Subconcave (a.) Slightly concave.

Hypocycloid :: Hypocycloid (n.) A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid..

Roach-backed :: Roach-backed (a.) Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.

Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

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..

Depressed :: Depressed (a.) Concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.

Depress :: Depress (a.) Having the middle lower than the border; concave.

Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.

Concaved :: Concaved (imp. & p. p.) of Concav.

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..

Bowl :: Bowl (n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc..

Dish :: Dish (n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel..

Trochilus :: Trochilus (n.) An annular molding whose section is concave, like the edge of a pulley; -- called also scotia..

Plano-concave :: Plano-concave (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens..

Vaulty :: Vaulty (a.) Arched; concave.

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

Ichthyosaurus :: Ichthyosaurus (n.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations..

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