conoid

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Its conoid head is very elongated, and by reason of this elegant form it always falls upon its point, even at falling angles of an amplitude approaching 60 degrees.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various

The only large building is the Jami or Cathedral, a long barn of poverty-stricken appearance, with broken-down gates, and two white-washed minarets of truncated conoid shape.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Mr. Worms, in a series of experiments carried out at King's College, London, adopted a somewhat similar arrangement, but in place of the hemispherical segment he employed a conoid, as shown in Fig.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various

It is an obtuse conoid, closed with a star-shaped disk. 

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Thanks to the lateral point of the stone anvil, which served the part of the conoid bicorn, he was able to forge rings rude in shape but strong.

From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor