Word Meanings - ANGLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.

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• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• SHELL-LESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• ANGLICIZE
  To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• SHELLER
  One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
• 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.
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• 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.
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• THREE-PLY
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• 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.
• THREE-PARTED
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. Three- parted leaf , a leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
• GOROON SHELL
  A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell .
• SPANGLY
  Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• VALVE-SHELL
  Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
• SPOUTSHELL
  Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
• 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.
• SLIT-SHELL
  Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• QUINQUEANGLED
  Having five angles; quinquangular.
• 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
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.