conoid

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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

Apart from its pillars, the egg-pocket is an inverted conoid, reminding us of the work of the Silky Epeira. 

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

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

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