Hypertext Webster Gateway: "umbilic"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Umbilic \Um*bil"ic\, n. [From L. umbilicus: cf. F. ombilic. See
{Navel}.]
1. The navel; the center. [Obs.] ``The umbilic of the
world.'' --Sir T. Herbert.

2. (Geom.) An umbilicus. See {Umbilicus}, 5
(b) .

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Umbilic \Um*bil"ic\, a. (Anat.)
See {Umbilical}, 1.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Umbilicus \Um`bi*li"cus\, n. [L. See {Umbilic}.]
1. (Anat.) The depression, or mark, in the median line of the
abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical
cord separated from the fetus; the navel.

2. (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss
fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts
were rolled. --Dr. W. Smith.

3. (Bot.) The hilum.

4. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A depression or opening in the center of the base of
many spiral shells.
(b) Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a
feather.

5. (Geom.)
(a) One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve. [Obs.]
(b) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the
normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere
may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at
an umbilicus. Called also {umbilic}.

Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup

Enter word here:
Exact Approx

dict.stokkie.net
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents; see the Webster Gateway FAQ, and also the Back-end/database links and credits.