Word Meanings - OBLIQUE-ANGLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ANGLICIZE
  To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• 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
• 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.
• OBLIQUENESS
  Quality or state of being oblique.
• 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.
• 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.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• ANGLICIZATION
  The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• ANGLICANISM
  1. Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England. 2. The principles of the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party. 3. Attachment to England or English
• ANGLEWISE
  In an angular manner; angularly.
• ANGLING
  The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line. Walton.
• ANGLED
  Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• SPANGLY
  Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• 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
• QUINQUEANGLED
  Having five angles; quinquangular.
• WIDE-ANGLE
  Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing
• GANGLIFORM; GANGLIOFORM
  Having the form of a ganglion.
• FANGLE
  Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
• NEWFANGLENESS
  Newfangledness. Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson .
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• GANGLIAC; GANGLIAL
  Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.
• ACUTE-ANGLED
  Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.