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

Efflower :: Efflower (v. t.) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather..

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..

Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state..

Talon :: Talon (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee..

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..

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

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) A lens convex on one side and concave on the other.

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

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

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..

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..

Concavo-convex :: Concavo-convex (a.) Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent..

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

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..

Cove :: Cove (n.) A concave molding.

Camera Obscura :: Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced..

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

Concave :: Concave (a.) Hollow; void of contents.

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

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