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Word Meanings - OBLIQUE-ANGLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • ANGLICIZE
    To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • TRIANGLE
    A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A
  • ANGLE
    A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • OBLIQUENESS
    Quality or state of being oblique.
  • ANGLO-CATHOLIC
    Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • ANGLICIZATION
    The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • ANGLICANISM
    1. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. 2. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. 3. Attachment to England or English
  • ANGLEWISE
    In an angular manner; angularly.
  • ANGLING
    The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton.
  • ANGLED
    Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • SPANGLY
    Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
  • BRANGLE
    A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused
  • UNTANGLE
    To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
  • QUINQUEANGLED
    Having five angles; quinquangular.
  • WIDE-ANGLE
    Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing
  • GANGLIFORM; GANGLIOFORM
    Having the form of a ganglion.
  • FANGLE
    Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • NEWFANGLENESS
    Newfangledness. Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson .
  • GANGLIAC; GANGLIAL
    Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.
  • ACUTE-ANGLED
    Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.

 

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