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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 ]

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

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

a. [ Pref. deca- + angular. ] Having ten angles. [ 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. Not comprehended within a rule or rules. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. gulaire. ] (Zool.) Pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. See Illust. of Bird, and Bowfin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hepta- + angular: cf. F. heptangulaire. Cf. Septangular. ] Having seven angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hex- + angular. Cf. Sexangular. ] Having six angles or corners. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not angular. [ Obs. ]

{ } a. (Anat.) Between ungulæ; as, interungular glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ir- not + regular: cf. F. irrégulier. ] Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mazes intricate,
Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular
Then most when most irregular they seem. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight
Against the irregular and wild Glendower. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flowery meadow through which a clear stream murmured in many irregular meanders. Jones.

Syn. -- Immethodical; unsystematic; abnormal; unnatural; anomalous; erratic; devious; crooked; eccentric; unsettled; uneven; variable; changeable; mutable; desultory; disorderly; wild; immoderate; intemperate; inordinate; vicious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is irregular. Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Irregularities [ Cf. F. irrégularité. ] The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an irregular manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. jugulum the collar bone, which joins together the shoulders and the breast, the throat, akin to jungere to yoke, to join: cf. F. jugulaire. See Join. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein. (b) Of or pertaining to the jugular vein; as, the jugular foramen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; -- said of certain fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. jugulaire. See Jugular, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Anat.) One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; -- called also the jugular vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. multangulus; multus much, many + angulus angle: cf. F. multangulaire. ] Having many angles. -- Mul*tan"gu*lar*ly, adv. -- Mul*tan"gu*lar*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Obstuseangular. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. octangulus eight-cornered; octo eight + angulus angle. ] Having eight angles; eight-angled. -- Oc*tan"gu*lar*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Penta- + angular. ] Having five corners or angles. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. quadrangulaire. ] Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. quinquanqulus; quinque five + angulus ad angle: cf. F. quinquangulaire. ] Having five angles or corners. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ CF. F. rectangulaire. ] Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. regularis, fr. regula a rule, fr. regere to guide, to rule: cf. F. régulier. See Rule. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Bot. & Zool.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Crystallog.) Same as Isometric. [ 1913 Webster ]

Regular polygon (Geom.), a plane polygon which is both equilateral and equiangular. --
Regular polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron whose faces are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron. --
Regular sales (Stock Exchange), sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction. --
Regular troops, troops of a standing or permanent army; -- opposed to militia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Normal; orderly; methodical. See Normal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. regularis: cf. F. régulier. See Regular, a. ] 1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church. Bp. Fitzpatrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. régularité. ] The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to become regular; to regulate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Regularity. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Heptagonal. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. [ Cf. F. sexangulaire. ] Having six angles; hexagonal. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Hexagonally. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. singuler, F. singulier, fr. L. singularius, singularis, fr. singulus single. See Single, a. ] 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

And God forbid that all a company
Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Engaged in by only one on a side; single. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To try the matter thus together in a singular combat. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Logic) Existing by itself; single; individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Gram.) Denoting one person or thing; as, the singular number; -- opposed to dual and plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Standing by itself; out of the ordinary course; unusual; uncommon; strange; as, a singular phenomenon. [ 1913 Webster ]

So singular a sadness
Must have a cause as strange as the effect. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Distinguished as existing in a very high degree; rarely equaled; eminent; extraordinary; exceptional; as, a man of singular gravity or attainments. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Departing from general usage or expectations; odd; whimsical; -- often implying disapproval or censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

His zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be singular in anything that is wise and worthy, is not a disparagement, but a praise. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Being alone; belonging to, or being, that of which there is but one; unique. [ 1913 Webster ]

These busts of the emperors and empresses are all very scarce, and some of them almost singular in their kind. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Singular point in a curve (Math.), a point at which the curve possesses some peculiar properties not possessed by other points of the curve, as a cusp point, or a multiple point. --
Singular proposition (Logic), a proposition having as its subject a singular term, or a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. Whately. --
Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. --
Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Unexampled; unprecedented; eminent; extraordinary; remarkable; uncommon; rare; unusual; peculiar; strange; odd; eccentric; fantastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An individual instance; a particular. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram) The singular number, or the number denoting one person or thing; a word in the singular number. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who affects singularity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Singularities [ L. singularitas: cf. F. singularité. ] 1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything singular, rare, or curious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your gallery
Have we passed through, not without much content
In many singularities. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [ universal bishop ]. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Celibacy. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make singular or single; to distinguish. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]