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Bolas
(gcide) | Bolas \Bo"las\, n. sing. & pl. [Sp.]
A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more
balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends
of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America,
and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.
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Cocobolas
(gcide) | Cocobolo \Co`co*bo"lo\, Cocobolas \Co`co*bo"las\, n. [Sp.
cocobolo.] (Bot.)
A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India
Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of
tools, and for various fancy articles.
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Parabolas
(gcide) | Parabola \Pa*rab"o*la\, n.; pl. Parabolas. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; --
so called because its axis is parallel to the side of the
cone. See Parable, and cf. Parabole.] (Geom.)
(a) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the
intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane
parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of
which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the
focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix.
See Focus.
(b) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y =
ax^n where n is a positive whole number or a positive
fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the
semicubical parabola n = 3/2. See under Cubical, and
Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but
no rectilineal asymptotes.
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