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Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.

Basin :: Basin (n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc..

Concavo-concave :: Concavo-concave (a.) Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.

Procoelia :: Procoelia (n. pl.) A division of Crocodilia, including the true crocodiles and alligators, in which the dorsal vertebrae are concave in front..

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

Hollow :: Hollow (a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

Biconcave :: Biconcave (a.) Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae..

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..

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..

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

Plano- :: Plano- (a.) Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave..

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..

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

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..

Opisthocoelous :: Opisthocoelous (a.) Concave behind; -- applied especially to vertebrae in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave.

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

Platycoelian :: Platycoelian (a.) Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebrae of some extinct dinouaurs.

Amphicoelous :: Amphicoelous (a.) Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebrae.

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

Cup :: Cup (v. t.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw..

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