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Oval [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Of the shape or figure of an egg; oblong; curvilinear; resembling the longitudinal section of an egg. It is sometimes synonymous with elliptical; but an ellipsis is equally broad at both ends, and is not strictly egg-shaped.

2. Pertaining to eggs; done in the egg; as oval conceptions.

Oval [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A body or figure in the shape of an egg.

Oval [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.

2. Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

3. Broadly elliptical.

Oval [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.

Ovalbumen [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin.

Ovalbumin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Ovalbumen

Ovaliform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

Ovally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an oval form.