horseshoe
horseshoe is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.
- 2.(Zoöl.) The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head (Med.), an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe. -- Horsehoe nail. See Horsenail. -- Horsehoe nose (Zoöl.), a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- arc
- arcade
- arch
- arched
- arcuation
- bay
- bend
- bending
- bough
- bought
- bow
- cardioid
- carve
- catenary
- caustic
- ceiling
- concameration
- conchoid
- crane
- crescent
- crook
- curl
- curling
- curvation
- curvature
- curve
- curvity
- deflection
- deflexion
- detour
- devexity
- deviation
- festoon
- flection
- flexion
- flexure
- function
- half-moon
- helix
- hook
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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