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Word Meanings - JAGGED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged vine leaves' shade." Trench. -- Jag"ged*ly, adv. -- Jag"ged*ness, n.
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- ANGULARITY
The quality or state of being angular; angularness. - JAGGERY
Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra . - GAUNTLETTED
Wearing a gauntlet. - JAGGER
One who carries about a small load; a peddler. See 2d Jag. Sir W. Scott. - JAGGED
Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged vine leaves' shade." Trench. -- Jag"ged*ly, adv. -- Jag"ged*ness, n. - UNEVEN
1. Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground. 2. Not equal; not of equal length. Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham. 3. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, - SCRAGGY
1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips. 2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck." Sir W. Scott. - GAUNTREE; GAUNTRY
A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure. Knight. (more info) 1. A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott. - ANGULARLY
In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson. - GAUNT
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols. - GAUNTLY
In a gaunt manner; meagerly. - JAGG
See JAG - SKINNY
Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge. - GAUNTLET
A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. -- To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken - JAGGERY PALM
An East Indian palm having leaves pinnate with wedge-shaped divisions, the petiole very stout. It is the principal source of jaggery, and is often cultivated for ornament. - ANGULARNESS
The quality of being angular. - JAGGY
Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth. Addison. - ANGULAR
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. 2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance. 3. Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff - SUBPENTANGULAR
Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular. - INANGULAR
Not angular. - SEPTANGULAR
Heptagonal. - EQUIANGULAR
Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. Equiangular spiral. 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. - TRIANGULAR
Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab - RECTANGULARITY
The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled. - QUADRANGULAR
Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv. - QUINQUANGULAR
Having five angles or corners. - SUPRA-ANGULAR
See SURANGULAR - ARMGAUNT
With gaunt or slender legs. "An armgaunt steed." Shak. Note: This word is peculiar to Shakespeare. Its meaning has not yet been satisfactorily explained. - SUBANGULAR
Slightly angular. - TRIANGULARES
The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider. - DECANGULAR
Having ten angles. - PENTANGULAR
Having five corners or angles.