#243. [Irregularity of form.] Distortion. —­ N. distortion,
detortion[obs3], contortion; twist, crookedness &c. (obliquity) 217; grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation[obs3]; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion[obs3], want of symmetry, anamorphosis[obs3]; ugliness &c. 846; talipes[obs3]; teratology.
     asymmetry; irregularity. 
     V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform,
misshape. 
     Adj. distorted &c. v.; out of shape, irregular, asymmetric,
unsymmetric[obs3], awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump[obs3], deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned[obs3], ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram’s horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one’s fair proportions; stumpy &c. (short) 201; gaunt &c. (thin) 203; bloated &c. 194; scalene; simous[obs3]; taliped[obs3], talipedic[obs3]. 
     Adv. all manner of ways. 
     Phr. crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].

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     #244.  Angularity. —­ N. angularity, angularness[obs3]; aduncity[obs3];
angle, cusp, bend; fold &c. 258; notch &c. 257; fork, bifurcation.
     elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke,
scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo[obs3], akimbo.
     corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel[Arch], coign[obs3].
     right angle &c. (perpendicular) 216a, 212; obliquity &c. 217; angle
of 45x, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle.
     angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular
velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry[obs3]; clinometer, graphometer[obs3], goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy.
     triangle, trigon[obs3], wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond;
rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon[obs3], decagon.
     pyramid, cone. 
     Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron,
octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof. 
     V. bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle. 
     Adj. angular, bent, crooked, aduncous[obs3], uncinated[obs3],
aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform[obs3], falcated[obs3]; furcated[obs3], forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular[obs3]; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo[obs3], geniculated[obs3]; oblique &c. 217.
     fusiform[Microb], wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate[obs3],
multangular[obs3], oxygonal[obs3]; triangular, trigonal[obs3], trilateral; quadrangular, quadrilateral; foursquare; rectangular, square, multilateral; polygonal &c. n.; cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.