conoid
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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
It is an obtuse conoid, closed with a star-shaped disk.
From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Archimedes developed the proportions necessary for effecting this comparison, in his treatises on the sphere and cylinder, the spheroid and conoid, and in his work on the measure of the circle.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner
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
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
