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Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.
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An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.
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Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.
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A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm.
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Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
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Any plant of the natural order Elatineae, consisting of two genera (Elatine, and Bergia), mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
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An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer.
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Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.
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Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation.
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A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
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Like a cleft with projecting edges.
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Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as, a two-edged sword.
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A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
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A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
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In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
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Having the surface altered in color, texture, or composition, or the edges rounded off by exposure to the elements.
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To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything.
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A low, soft, sibilant voice or utterance, which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or utterance that employs only breath sound without tone, friction against the edges of the vocal cords and arytenoid cartilages taking the place of the vibration of the cords that produces tone; sometimes, in a limited sense, the sound produced by such friction as distinguished from breath sound made by friction against parts of the mouth. See Voice, n., 2, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 153, 154.
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The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
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An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.
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