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Planchet :: Planchet (n.) A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin..

Meniscus :: Meniscus (n.) An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

Diskless :: Diskless (a.) Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope..

Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures..

Gastrodisc :: Gastrodisc (n.) That part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.

Glory :: Glory (n.) An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line..

Encrinoidea :: Encrinoidea (n. pl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea..

Sabot :: Sabot (n.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling..

Vorticella :: Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched..

Discous :: Discous (a.) Disklike; discoid.

Epigynous :: Epigynous (a.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk..

Medusoid :: Medusoid (a.) Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids..

Buttonmold :: Buttonmold (n.) A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth..

Disk :: Disk (n.) A discus; a quoit.

Sarcous :: Sarcous (a.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed..

Rondle :: Rondle (n.) A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.), the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible..

Palm :: Palm (n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc..

Shield :: Shield (n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci..

Trundlehead :: Trundlehead (n.) One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.

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