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Copple :: Copple (n.) Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hill rising to a point..

Fellow :: Fellow (n.) In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation..

Round :: Round (v. t.) To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn..

Advance :: Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods..

Tilt :: Tilt (v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.

Penguin :: Penguin (n.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges..

Principal :: Principal (n.) A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate..

Roulette :: Roulette (n.) the curve traced by any point in the plane of a given curve when the latter rolls, without sliding, over another fixed curve. See Cycloid, and Epycycloid..

Halberd :: Halberd (n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form..

Colure :: Colure (n.) One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure..

Superstition :: Superstition (n.) An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion..

Pentalpha :: Pentalpha (n.) A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; -- used as a symbol..

Hyperbola :: Hyperbola (n.) A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. o

Picket :: Picket (n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences..

Absolute :: Absolute (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity..

Direct :: Direct (v. t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road..

Onward :: Onward (adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward..

Aim :: Aim (v. i.) To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target..

Chromatoscope :: Chromatoscope (n.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars..

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