bend; fold &c 258; notch &c 257; fork, bifurcation.
elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke,
scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo†, akimbo.
corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel [Arch.], coign†.
right angle &c (perpendicular) 216.1, 212; obliquity &c 217; angle
of 45 degrees, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle,
reentering angle, spherical angle.
angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular
velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry†; clinometer,
graphometer†, goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy.
triangle, trigon†, wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond;
rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature;
polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon†, decagon.
pyramid, cone.
Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron,
hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism,
pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.
V. bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle.
Adj. angular, bent, crooked, aduncous†, uncinated†, aquiline, jagged,
serrated; falciform†, falcated†; furcated†, forked, bifurcate, zigzag;
furcular†; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo†,
geniculated†; oblique &c 217.
fusiform [Micro.], wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate†, multangular†,
oxygonal†; triangular, trigonal†, trilateral; quadrangular,
quadrilateral; foursquare; rectangular, square, multilateral; polygonal
&c n.; cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.