Word Meanings - PYRAMIDION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• PYRAMIDION
  The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.
• OBELISK
  A mark of reference; -- called also dagger . See Dagger, n., 2. (more info) 1. An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• PYRAMIDAL
  See NUMBERS (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage. The mystic obelisks stand up Triangular, pyramidal. Mrs. Browning.
• PYRAMIDALLY
  Like a pyramid.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• PYRAMID
  A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base. 3. pl. (more info) 1. A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base,
• PYRAMIDIC; PYRAMIDICAL
  Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal. " A pyramidical rock." Goldsmith. "Gold in pyramidic plenty piled." Shenstone. -- Pyr`a*mid"ic*al*ly, adv. Pyr`a*mild"ic*al*ness, n.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• PYRAMIDOID
  A solid resembling a pyramid; -- called also pyramoid. Barlow.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• BIPYRAMIDAL
  Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.
• MACROPYRAMID
  See MACROPRISM
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.