conoid

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From some experiments I made myself a score of years ago, I am inclined to prefer a plane surface for the conoid to work upon.

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

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

Schell records the case of a soldier who was wounded July 3, 1867, by a conoid ball from a Remington revolver of the Army pattern.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The stolen object is a globe; the object presented in exchange is an elliptical conoid studded with angular projections along the edge of the base. 

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