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Eccentricity :: Eccentricity (n.) The distance of the center of figure of a body, as of an eccentric, from an axis about which it turns; the throw..

Center :: Center (v. t.) Alt. of Centr.

Barycentric :: Barycentric (a.) Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus..

Coak :: Coak (n.) A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheave.

Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.

Redthroat :: Redthroat (n.) A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc..

Centerbit :: Centerbit (n.) Alt. of Centrebi.

Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..

Eccentric :: Eccentric (a.) Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric..

Abeam :: Abeam (adv.) On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side..

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm..

Centrolecithal :: Centrolecithal (a.) Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal..

Eccentricity :: Eccentricity (n.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.

Abyss :: Abyss (n.) The center of an escutcheon.

Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.

Turn :: Turn (n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel..

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target..

Saltirewise :: Saltirewise (adv.) In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center..

Diameter :: Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve..

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