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Curvicaudate :: Curvicaudate (a.) Having a curved or crooked tail.

Stem :: Stem (n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow..

Imbow :: Imbow (v. t.) To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.

Horn :: Horn (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias)..

Chord :: Chord (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

Circumflexion :: Circumflexion (n.) The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form..

Davit :: Davit (n.) Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits..

Courb :: Courb (a.) Curved; rounded.

Streptoneura :: Streptococcus (n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved..

Arc :: Arc (n.) A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse..

Curve :: Curve (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right..

Sinuate :: Sinuate (v. i.) To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.

Recurvate :: Recurvate (v. t.) To bend or curve back; to recurve.

Litate :: Litate (a.) Forked, with the points slightly curved outward..

Parabola :: Parabola (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes..

Mixtilinear :: Mixtilinear (a.) Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve..

Kinetogenesis :: Kinetogenesis (n.) An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.

Cardioid :: Cardioid (n.) An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart..

Tangent :: Tangent (a.) meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces..

Helix :: Helix (n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

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