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Volume 501 · 56 words · 1797 Edition

a name given by some to a curve of the 2nd order, expressed by the equation $x^2 + y^2 = axy$, being one species of defective hyperbolas, with one asymptote, and consisting of two infinite legs crossing each other, forming a leaf of leaf. It is the 42nd species of Newton's Lines of the 3rd Order.