‖ rhomboides Now rare or Obs.
(rɒmˈbɔɪdiːz)
Also 6 romb-, -aides, 7 -oyades, -oeides.
[In sense 1 late L. rhomboīdes, a. Gr. ῥοµβοειδές (sc. σχῆµα), neut. of ῥοµβοειδής, f. ῥόµβος rhombus; in sense 2, rhomboīdēs masc. (sc. mūsculus).]
1. Geom. = rhomboid B. 1.
| 1570 Billingsley Euclid i. 5 b, Rhombaides (or a diamond like) is a figure, whose opposite sides are equall, and whose opposite angles are also equall, but it hath neither equall sides, nor right angles. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xi[i]. (Arb.) 105 The Fuzie or spindle, called Romboides. 1641 Milton Reform. ii. M 3 To see them under Sayl in all their Lawn, and Sarcenet,..with a geometricall rhomboides upon their heads. 1672 [see rhombus 1]. 1683 Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xiii. ¶1 The Figure of the Face of the Punch will become a Rhomboides. 1726 Swift Gulliver iii. ii, A Piece of Beef [cut] into a Rhomboides, and a Pudding into a Cycloid. 1766 Compl. Farmer s.v. Surveying 7 E 2/2 The rhomboides is a defective rhombus. |
2. Anat. = rhomboideus.
| 1693 tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2). 1723 J. Keill Anat. Human Body vi. §4. 291 The Rhomboides..is inserted..into the whole Basis of the Scapulæ, which it draws backwards. 1756 Douglas tr. J. B. Winslow's Anat. I. 175 These Branches..being there covered a little by the Rhomboides. 1835 Brit. Cycl., Arts & Sci. II. 508/2. |