Particularly useful for creating complex shapes, like saddle-shaped curves (curves in 2 dimensions). From Wordnik.com. [Hammers] Reference
Its saddle-shaped ridge would protect their flanks, and the swale behind offered a northward line of retreat. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
Another great volcano, with a saddle-shaped summit, also emitted from its immense crater little jets of steam. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
He was mostly white but had a chestnut-brown saddle-shaped patch that reached over his back and down his sides almost to his belly. From Wordnik.com. [Born to Bark] Reference
Today, a year and a half later, Minnie has a huge saddle-shaped scar under the fur on her back, and she's terrified of tall men and large dogs. From Wordnik.com. [An Ugly World] Reference
We spent the night of the 26th on the island called Nkuesi, opposite a remarkable saddle-shaped mountain, and found that we were just on the 17th parallel of latitude. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
The ground logs being laid saddle-shaped, on the upper edge, is cut in with an axe, at the ends, as long as the logs are thick, then the end logs are raised and a "notch" cut to fit the saddle. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
It consists of a large lower stone with a saddle-shaped hollow on the upper side. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew Life and Times] Reference
The expertly detailed front forks and the comfortable saddle-shaped seat have made the. From Wordnik.com. [Luxurylaunches.com] Reference
The huge, saddle-shaped building has been an economic fixture in Kansas City since the. From Wordnik.com. [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference
Near and west of it, is a lower saddle-shaped mountain, called by the natives The Cradle Top. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
The head of the radius, the shortest forelimb element, has a square contour and saddle-shaped surface. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
They have a cap and stem, the cap being very irregular in shape, often somewhat lobed or saddle-shaped. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Twenty hours later we met behind the great saddle-shaped hummock, some six miles to the S.E. of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
Pretty, but I betcha that saddle-shaped roof leaks like a sonufabitch. sonufabitchs are quite leaky, i tell you. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter] Reference
From this lynchet, looking down the valley into the Y Ravine, the enemy position is saddle-shaped, low in the middle, where the Y. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Front Line] Reference
It was not while toiling up the slope that the dreaded detection, but at the moment when they must cross the saddle-shaped summit of the pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
Above the mountain chain on our left looms a colossal blue silhouette, almost saddle-shaped, recognisable by its outline as a once mighty volcano. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
This Melleha is of great length, interrupted in one place only by a small saddle-shaped sand-hill, and is bounded on both sides by ridges of sand. From Wordnik.com. [The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria] Reference
"They were right in saying last year, when the saddle-shaped comet appeared, that it came to foretell a war with the Moors!" she exclaimed disconsolately. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish] Reference
This movement is effected through the medium of a small sloping facet on the anterior lip of the saddle-shaped articular surface of the greater multangular. From Wordnik.com. [III. Syndesmology. 6h. Carpometacarpal Articulations] Reference
A home-made transmit-receive saddle-shaped coil of 26 mm inner diameter and length was inserted in the cavity, with the manual tuning circuitry placed apart. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The electric field, Gershenfeld explains, can be thought of as saddle-shaped: front to back, it curves upward at the ends, but side to side, it curves downward. From Wordnik.com. [D Mag - News] Reference
Its product enhancements, such as the tri-colored holder, unique suture guide line, wide saddle-shaped cuff and new accessories are all designed for easier implantation. From Wordnik.com. [Edwards Lifesciences Launches Magna Mitral Ease Valve - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
It is a saddle-shaped surface (like the inner surface of a solid ring); and as the principal curvatures have their concavities turned in opposite ways, the curvature is negative. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained] Reference
If you would like to see a pretty and curious little sight, look to Orchis pyramidalis, and you will see that the sticky glands are congenitally united into a saddle-shaped organ. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
The inferior surface is oval, concave from side to side, convex from before backward, so as to form a saddle-shaped surface for articulation with the base of the first metacarpal bone. From Wordnik.com. [II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus] Reference
When the proboscis has reached the end of the spur, its basal portion depresses the little hinged rostellum that covers the saddle-shaped sticky glands to which the pollen masses (pollinia) are attached. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
But in one of that insanity of existences you can describe five dimensions as expanded (unlike our three+time) and five rolled up, the whole thing folding back on itself in a saddle-shaped space (unlike ours). From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel] Reference
Remove this under microscope by pincers applied to foot-stalk of pollen-mass, and look quickly at the spontaneous movement of the saddle-shaped organs and see how beautifully adapted to seize proboscis of moth. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
"Italian airliner seat manufacturer Aviointeriors will introduce a saddle-shaped design at next week's Aircraft Interiors Expo in Long Beach. From Wordnik.com. [FlyerTalk Forums] Reference
Cap lobed, irregular, saddle-shaped, Helvella, yellowish fungus. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference
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