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n. See Aglet. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a very large closely branched South African shrub (Carissa grandiflora) of the dogbane family having forked bright green spines, white flowers, shiny leaves, and red berries. Also called natal plum.
Syn. -- natal plum, Carissa macrocarpa. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. the fruit of the amatungulu{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + E. angular. ] Containing no angle. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. angularis, fr. angulus angle, corner. See Angle. ] 1. Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angular aperture,
Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. --
Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. --
Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. --
Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being angular; angularness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being angular. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make angular. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. angulatus, p. p. of angulare to make angular. ] Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A making angular; angular formation. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.. [ L. angulus angle + dens, dentis, tooth. ] (Bot.) Angularly toothed, as certain leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. angulus angle + -meter. ] An instrument for measuring external angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Angulous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being angulous or angular. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. angulosus: cf. F. anguleux. ] Angular; having corners; hooked. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., dim of Argus. ] (Zool.) A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an erect European annual (Eruca vesicaria sativa) of the mustard family, often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
Syn. -- rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, Eruca sativa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + angular. ] Having two angles or corners. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + angulate, angulated. ] Biangular. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ Pref. bi- + angulous. ] Biangular. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + rectangular. ] Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a girdle. ] (Zool.) (a) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells. (b) The clitellus of earthworms. (c) The base of the crown of a tooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being coagulated. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coagulans, p. pr. ] That which produces coagulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. coagulatus, p. p. of coagulare to coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to drive together, coagulate. See Cogent. ] Coagulated. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coagulated p. pr. & vb. n. Coagulating ] To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To undergo coagulation. Boyle.

Syn. -- To thicken; concrete; curdle; clot; congeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coagulatio. ] 1. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The substance or body formed by coagulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which causes coagulation. Hixley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to coagulate; produced by coagulation; as, coagulatory effects. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Coagula [ L. See Coagulate, a. ] The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. deca- + angular. ] Having ten angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Engulfed p. pr. & vb. n. Engulfing. ] [ Pref. en- + gulf: cf. OF. engolfer. Cf. Ingulf. ] To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf. [ 1913 Webster ]

It quite engulfs all human thought. Young.

Syn. -- See Absorb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A swallowing up as if in a gulf. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Equiangular. ] Having equal angles; equiangular. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Equi- + angular. Cf. Equangular. ] Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equiangular spiral. (Math.) See under Spiral, n. --
Mutually equiangular, applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref ex- + angulous. ] Having no corners; without angles. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not comprehended within a rule or rules. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exungulated p. pr. & vb. n. Exungulating ] [ L. exungulare to lose the hoof, ex out, from + ungula. See Ungula. ] To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ L. figulatus, p. p. of figulare to shape, fr. figulus potter, fr. fingere to shape. ] Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. figulina pottery, fr. figulus. See Figulate. ] A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose figulines and rustic wares
Scarce find him bread from day to day. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. figulinus. See Figulate. ] 1. Suitable for the making of pottery; fictile; -- said of clay. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Made of clay, as by the potter; -- said of vessels, ornamental figures, or the like; as, figuline ware. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Chem.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or drived from, frangulin, or a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Frangulinic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance, resembling alizarin, and obtained by the decomposition of frangulin. [ 1913 Webster ]