OBELISK
\ˈɒbəlɪsk], \ˈɒbəlɪsk], \ˈɒ_b_ə_l_ɪ_s_k]\
Definitions of OBELISK
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
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To mark or designate with an obelisk.
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A mark of reference; - called also dagger []. See Dagger, n., 2.
By Oddity Software
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An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
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To mark or designate with an obelisk.
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A mark of reference; - called also dagger []. See Dagger, n., 2.
By Noah Webster.
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A lofty, four-sided stone pillar shaped at the top like a pyramid; a reference mark: called also a dagger.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin, Greek] A four-sided pillar, tapering as it rises, and cut off at the top in the form of a flat pyramid ;— a mark thus, called also a dagger, used as a reference to notes at the bottom of a page, or to indicate that a word or expression is obsolete.
