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Hypodicrotous :: Hypodicrotous (a.) Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve..

Curlew :: Curlew (n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill..

Accipitres :: Accipitres (n. pl.) The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls..

Crown :: Crown (n.) The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only..

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

Curvidentate :: Curvidentate (a.) Having curved teeth.

Boul :: Boul (n.) A curved handle.

Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..

Lemniscate :: Lemniscate (n.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center..

Bow :: Bow (v. i.) To bend; to curve.

Pelican :: Pelican (n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix..

Pick :: Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..

Quadrable :: Quadrable (a.) That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms..

Pearlstone :: Pearlstone (n.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic..

Coronis :: Coronis (n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end..

Winder :: Winder (n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer..

Equate :: Equate (v. t.) To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; to equate lines of railroad for grades or curves; equated distances..

Monocrotism :: Monocrotism (n.) That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing..

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