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Conoid :: Conoid (n.) A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane..

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

Catacaustic :: Catacaustic (a.) Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a..

Curvet :: Curvet (n.) A prank; a frolic.

Chough :: Chough (n.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough..

Secant :: Secant (a.) A line that cuts another; especially, a straight line cutting a curve in two or more points..

Elbow :: Elbow (n.) The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.

Semiparabola :: Semiparabola (n.) One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve..

Scorpionwort :: Scorpionwort (n.) A leguminous plant (Ornithopus scorpioides) of Southern Europe, having slender curved pods..

Osculatrix :: Osculatrix (n.) A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind..

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..

Lituus :: Lituus (n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

Engrail :: Engrail (v. t.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.

Branch :: Branch (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola..

Crest :: Crest (n.) The upper curve of a horse's neck.

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

Rhumb :: Rhumb (n.) A line which crosses successive meridians at a constant angle; -- called also rhumb line, and loxodromic curve. See Loxodromic..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line..

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..

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

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