Oblongness: alternatives and connections

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and…

A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.

The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sac…

A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the…

A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red b…

A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of w…

A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of a…

A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted…

Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengt…

An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving…

A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the…

A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, bu…

A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.

An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of…

Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.