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Caustic :: Caustic (a.) A caustic curve or caustic surface.

Scorpioidal :: Scorpioidal (a.) Having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail..

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

Mosasauria :: Mosasauria (n. pl.) An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in the Cretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria..

Nebuly :: Nebuly (a.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision..

Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..

Belly :: Belly (n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back..

Lituus :: Lituus (n.) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.

Loxodremism :: Loxodremism (n.) The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.

Titubate :: Titubate (v. i.) To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane..

Calipers :: Calipers (n. pl.) An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses..

Scimitar :: Scimitar (n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians..

Siding :: Siding (n.) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches..

Arciform :: Arciform (a.) Having the form of an arch; curved.

Pad :: Pad (n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

Anacrotism :: Anacrotism (n.) A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing..

Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To curve; to bend into a circular form.

Hogged :: Hogged (a.) Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i..

Falcade :: Falcade (n.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets..

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