Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CYL-IN-DROID'
CYL-IN'DRI-FORMCYL-IN-DRO-MET'IC
CYL-IN-DROID', n. [cylinder and ειδος, form.]
A solid body, approaching to the figure of a cylinder, but differing in some respects, as having the bases elliptical, but parallel and equal. – Encyc.
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