conoid
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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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
It is an obtuse conoid, closed with a star-shaped disk.
From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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 Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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 Victor Hugo
