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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mathematical figure in the form of a hatchet, consisting of two concave quadrantal ares and a semicircle. Also spelled pelicoid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geom.) A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants.

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